Dr. Katrin Voltmer

Professor of Communication and Democracy, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds

Katrin Voltmer is a member of the RISJ's Editorial Board. She is Professor of Communication and Democracy at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. Her research interests focus on the role of the media in emerging democracies in a comparative perspective. She has also widely published on the changing relationship between politics and the media in established western democracies, the interplay between the media and public policymaking and media influences on citizens’ political orientations. Recent publications include The Media in Transitional Democracies (2013, Polity Press), Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy: Challenging the Primacy of Politics (2011, ed. with Kees Brants, Palgrave) and Public Policy and the Mass Media. The Interplay of Mass Communication and Political Decision Making (2008, ed. with Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten, Routledge). Katrin Voltmer has been principal investigator of various research projects funded by the British Academy and the ESRC. She is Scientific Coordinator of Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDem; www.mecodem.eu), a 2,8 million Euro project funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme. MeCoDEM is a collaborative project of eight partner institutions from Egypt, Germany, Serbia, Sweden, South Africa and the UK. Katrin Voltmer is member of the governing body (Bureau) and Treasurer of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and Associate Editor of Communications. European Journal of Communication Research.