Dr. Natalie Martin

Dr. Natalie Martin is a former BBC news producer and has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham in the UK since 2019.

Her research interests revolve around security aspects of information and disinformation focussing especially on the UK and Turkey as case studies. She has published several journal articles and a monograph about the Turkey-EU accession process and associated issues and is the author of The Securitisation of News in Turkey: Journalists as Terrorists (Palgrave 2020). She is currently working on the intersection of journalism and disordered information and its security implications developing a framework explaining how disordered information can be both conduited through news media – and targeted at it.

She is the co-director of the Centre for Media, Politics and Communication Research, an interdisciplinary research centre based at the University of Nottingham.