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The University of Gothenburg research team
Monika Djerf-Pierre is professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the principal investigator and project leader of the project, Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe. She has been involved in gender and media research for several decades and has headed gender projects funded by both the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences; for example, the project, Women in the Journalist Culture, and the research programme, Gender and the Social Reproduction of Elites. She has also been on the editorial board of Feminist Media Studies for many years. Currently, Djerf-Pierre is involved in several projects: Communicating Antimicrobial Resistance; Cultivation in a New Media Environment; and Spirals of Attention – Environmental Journalism in the Swedish News Media. E-mail: monika.djerf-pierre@jmg.gu.se
Maria Edström is associate professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the project manager of the project, Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe. Gender, media, and human rights have been in focus for Edström for many years. She has been involved in the Swedish data collection for the Global Media Monitoring Project since 2000. She also served as a Nordic coordinator for the IWMF study, Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media. She was one of the university coordinators of the EU-funded project, Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries (AGEMI, 2017–2019). Edström is also involved in research regarding ethical issues in journalism, the question of market-driven claims on freedom of expression, as well as research on ageing. Since 2016, she is working within AgeCap, Centre for Ageing and health, with a focus on ageing and media. E-mail: maria.edstrom@jmg.gu.se
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Mathias A. Färdigh is senior lecturer at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research is focused on different aspects of the relationship between media and quality of government – whether, how, and under what circumstances media and journalism can improve or reduce a development towards quality of gov-ernment. Färdigh has previously worked as a data manager for the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute and has compiled, curated, and developed the GEM dataset within the project, Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe. His main area of interest also includes media freedom, media governance, media management, newspaper reading, public opinion, political communication, and corruption. E-mail: mathias.fardigh@jmg.gu.se
The international research team
Rossella Bozzon is assistant professor in Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan, Italy. She is a member of the ERC Project, SHARE: Seizing the Hybrid Areas of Work by Re-presenting Self-Employment (2017–2022). Her research interests include welfare state and la-bour market transformations, non-standard employment relations, poverty and economic deprivation dynamics, gender inequalities, and quantitative methods. Her work has been published in, among others, the Journal of European Social Policy, European Societies, and the European Educational Research Journal. E-mail: rossella.bozzon@gmail.com
Carolyn M. Byerly is professor and chair in the Department of Communication, Culture & Media Studies at Howard University, USA. She conducts research on women and racial minorities’ access to media ownership and on their status as workers within media industries. She was the principal investigator and the author of the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media study, the editor of The Palgrave Handbook on Women and Journalism, and co-author of Women and Media: A Critical Introduction, among other books and many articles and chapters. Byerly received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Washington. E-mail: cbyerly@earthlink.net
Tobias Bürger is a researcher working on mediatisation, political communi-cation, non-profit communicommuni-cation, and gender and media. His work has been published in Public Relations Review, Political Science, and Feminist Media Studies. He is a project manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Germany. E-mail: tbuerger@live.de
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Marloes Jansen is a doctoral candidate in the Media, Culture and Heritage Subject Group at Newcastle University, UK. In her research, she explores the influence of gender and party on British politicians’ Twitter communication. She has also conducted research and taught at Northumbria University, UK and University of Twente in the Netherlands. Her work has been published in Feminist Media Studies and the European Journal of Politics and Gender. E-mail: M.G.M.Jansen2@newcastle.ac.uk
Sarah Macharia is the global coordinator of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), a transnational longitudinal research and advocacy initiative for gender equality in and through the news media running since 1995. She is the lead editor of the 2010 and 2015 Who makes the news? The Global Media Monitoring Project reports and co-editor of Setting the Gender Agenda for Communication Policy, published by UNESCO (2019). She sits on the board of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), initiated by UNESCO to follow up on the implementation of the media recommendations (Section J) of the UN 1995 Beijing Platform for Action for the Advancement of Women. Mach-aria holds a doctoral degree in Political Science from York University, Canada. She has worked extensively with feminist movements at the pan-African level and at the UN Economic Commission for Africa. E-mail: SM@waccglobal.org Katherine A. McGraw is an independent researcher living in the Washington, DC, area. She has applied her background in statistical analysis to both bio-logical and social sciences. She was the lead statistician on the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media study in 2011, and she has worked collaboratively on other communications research projects. She received her master’s degree from Auburn University and her doctoral from the University of Washington. E-mail: kmcgraw5@earthlink.net
Claudia Padovani is associate professor in political science and international rela-tions at the University of Padova, Italy, where she teaches courses in international communication and communication governance and transnational networks. Her main areas of interest concern the transformation of political processes in the global context and their connection to the evolution of communication processes and technologies, with a special focus on gender equality issues, communica-tion rights, and social justice. On these issues, she has published extensively, including co-editing Gender, Media and ICTs: New Approaches for Research, Education and Training (UNESCO, 2019). She was a consortium member of the Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries (AGEMI) project and worked as part of the core team with Karen Ross on the EIGE-funded project. Padovani co-chairs the UNESCO University Network on Gender Media and ICTs and is an active member of the UNESCO-supported Global Alliance for Media and Gender (GAMAG). E-mail: claudia.padovani@unipd.it
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Karen Ross is professor of gender and media in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. Her teaching and research are focused on issues of gender, politics, media, and society, including aspects of social media and political communication. Her latest monograph, Gender, Politics and News, was published in 2017 (Wiley Blackwell). She was lead researcher and project manager on an EU-funded project, Advancing Gender Equality in the Media (2017–2019) as well as leading on an earlier study, funded by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE, 2011–2013), which focused on identifying issues in relation to both the promotion and representation of women across the European media sector. She is editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication (Wiley Blackwell, 2020). She has been involved with the Global Media Monitoring Project since it began in 1995 and has been the UK coordinator since 2005 and the European Coordinator since 2010. E-mail: karen.ross@newcastle.ac.uk
