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Marie Curie Individual Fellowship Role; Fellow at the CNRS France, European Commission

HRC Block Grant PhD Scholarship, Arts and Humanities Research Council

Fellow Higher Education Academy : Member

“I Think Therefore I Don’t Vote”: discourses on abstention, distrust and twitter politics in the 2017 French presidential election

Theorising the ‘security influencer’: Speaking security, terror and Muslims on social media during the Manchester bombings

Tweeting terrorism: Vernacular conceptions of Muslims and terror in the wake of the Manchester Bombing on Twitter

French Muslims in Perspective: Nationalism, Post-Colonialism and Marginalisation under the Republic

This book re-evaluates existing debates in critical security studies in the context of digital communications.

Proposes a historical and methodological re-assessment of the field.

Explains how social media impacts critical security studies.

Critical Security Studies in the Digital Age

Professor Downing is a senior lecturer in international relations and politics in the politics, history and international relations department at Aston University where he teaches courses on researching politics, security and technology in politics and is the author of "French Muslim in Perspective: Nationalism, Post-colonialism and Marginalisation Under the Republic" (Palgrave, 2019).

He has previously been LSE fellow Nationalism and Migration at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Marie-Curie fellow at the Laboratory of Mediterranean Sociology, CNRS and the Université Aix-Marseille and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published widely on politics and security in France, concentrating on minority communities. He has also been widely consulted by broadcast and print media.

Joseph Downing received his PhD from the European Institute, London School of Economics in 2014. His thesis ‘Between Policy, Recognition and Rioting: Analyzing the role of urban governance, historical commemoration and public culture in defining inclusion in Marseille, Paris and Lyon’ involved significant fieldwork in France. He was awarded the AHRC block grant “European Languages and Culture” full scholarship for the 2009-2012 period and taught as a fellow at LSE until 2016.

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Emmanuel Macron’s state visit with Joe Biden: key takeaways as relations warm up after a frosty few months

Emmanuel Macron reelected: four key themes for his second term as president

Ukraine: why Emmanuel Macron’s open line to Moscow has not delivered the international prestige he expected

Senior Lecturer, Politics, History and International Relations

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