Dr Steven Harkins

Lecturer

Communications, Media and Culture Department of Journalism Studies, Pathfoot Building, Room A20a University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland UK

Contact details

Email steven.harkins@stir.ac.uk
Telephone+44 (0)1786 467525

ORCID 0000-0001-6116-0460

Share a link

Research

Steven's research interests sit at the intersection between journalism studies, political communication and social theory. His most recent research examined news framing of poverty and inequality.

Outputs

Newspaper Article

Why is climate change still not top of the news agenda?

Harkins S (2019) Why is climate change still not top of the news agenda?. The Conversation. 19.09.2019. https://theconversation.com/why-is-climate-change-still-not-top-of-the-news-agenda-123800

Monograph

Poor News: Media discourses of poverty in times of austerity

Harkins S & Lugo-Ocando J (2017) Poor News: Media discourses of poverty in times of austerity. London.

Book Chapter

How Malthusian ideology crept into the newsroom: British tabloids and the coverage of the ‘underclass’.

Harkins S & Lugo-Ocando J (2017) How Malthusian ideology crept into the newsroom: British tabloids and the coverage of the ‘underclass’.. In: The Discourse of Financial Crisis and Austerity: Critical analyses of business and economics across disciplines. London: Routledge, pp. 78-93.

Book Chapter

All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others: how and why inequality became invisible in the British press

Harkins S & Lugo-Ocando J (2016) All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others: how and why inequality became invisible in the British press. In: The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective.

Book Chapter

Managing the social impacts of austerity Britain: The cultural politics of neo-liberal ‘nudging’

Harkins S & Briant E (2016) Managing the social impacts of austerity Britain: The cultural politics of neo-liberal ‘nudging’. In: Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity.

Article

How Malthusian ideology crept into the newsroom: British tabloids and the coverage of the ‘underclass’

Harkins S & Lugo-Ocando J (2015) How Malthusian ideology crept into the newsroom: British tabloids and the coverage of the ‘underclass’. Critical Discourse Studies, 13 (1), pp. 78-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2015.1074594

Newspaper Article

Response: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes

Harkins S & Miller D (2015) Response: Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes. British Medical Journal. 27.11.2015.

Newspaper Article

Justice should be the driving force for reporting on the refugee crisis

Harkins S (2015) Justice should be the driving force for reporting on the refugee crisis. the Conversation. 18.09.2015.

Other

One nation and two messages: how Scotland has become a problem for British journalists and the Labour Party

Harkins S (2015) One nation and two messages: how Scotland has become a problem for British journalists and the Labour Party. Political Studies Association. UK Election Analysis 2015: Media, Voters and the Campaign Early reflections from leading UK academics. Political Studies Association. https://www.psa.ac.uk/sites/default/files/page-files/UK%20Election%20Analysis%202015%20-%20Jackson%20and%20Thorsen%20v1.pdf

Book Chapter

The poverty of ideas in the newsroom

Harkins S & Lugo-Ocando J (2014) The poverty of ideas in the newsroom. In: Blaming the Victim How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty. London, pp. 36-59.

Article

Teaching about terrorism in the United Kingdom: how it is done and what problems it causes

Miller D, Mills T & Harkins S (2011) Teaching about terrorism in the United Kingdom: how it is done and what problems it causes. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 4 (3), pp. 405-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2011.623416

Article

The Stockholm Network

Harkins S & Jones M (2010) The Stockholm Network. BMJ, 341 (nov10 4), pp. c6413-c6413. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c6413