Karen Sanders

email : k.sanders@sheffield.ac.uk

tel: (+44)0114 2222504

Karen Sanders joined the Department in 1995 as a lecturer. She read English and Philosophy at Durham University and received her MA and PhD from the School of Public Communication, University of Navarra, Spain, where she is currently a visiting lecturer.

Former head of the Press and Parliamentary Office at the British Chamber of Shipping. She lived in Peru and Spain where she lectured on Politics and Journalism and published her study of Peruvian national identity in 1997.

Her chief research interests include tradition, national identity and the mass media, particularly in a Latin American and European context, and the media and the public sphere.

She is currently conducting comparative research into media coverage of political corruption and Prime Ministers´ relations to news media.