Dr. Dominic Hinde

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Dominic Hinde is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, focusing on media communications and sociological and cultural studies. He has a background in both academic research and practical journalism, having worked for various newspapers and magazines across Scandinavia and Northern Europe. Dominic completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and also spent time at Uppsala University in Sweden. His research primarily revolves around the relationship between elite narratives and environmental social change, utilizing ethnographic methods. He is experienced in supervising students on a variety of topics, particularly those related to energy, modernity, the Anthropocene, and the sociology of time. Furthermore, he is engaged in projects that study media portrayals, such as the UK miners' strike from an oral history perspective and the impact of digitization on journalism. With previous fellowships at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, he combines academic insights with practical experience in the field.

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