Maxine is a former media practitioner, now a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of East London.  Her research focuses on the representation of radical environmental activism in the mainstream news media.  Maxine combines her passion for academic study in news representations with industry experience as a journalist to research areas around environmentalism and sport.

Previous Lecturing posts held:

Senior  Visiting Lecturer , Digital Media Theory, School of Arts, Kingston University

Visiting Lecturer, Journalism, Roehampton University 

Maxine teaches on both post and undergraduate course at UEL, including single honours Journalism, Sports Journalism, and an MsC in International Relations, and the MA/Msc SportsMedia. Maxine is an active reserach in the field of environmentalism, discourse, media representaiton, sportsmedia and environmental governance. She combines these disciplines with her experience as a former journalists to brings knowledge of the media into all aspects of lecturing and research.

Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise

• Environmental Activism
• Media discourse
• Political Discourse
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Sportsmedia
• The Olympiad
• Global Environmental Politics
• Climate Camp

Maxine's research focuses on environmentalism, sport and journalism-often combining the disciplines to examine the environmental impact of major sporting events. Her work also examines the media representation of environmental activism, predmoninalty on the UK eco-activists movement

• BA Sports Journalism
• BA Journalism
• MsC International Relations
• MsC Sportsmedia (Subject to Validation)

Semester A

• CC1501 Introduction to Journalism
• CC1502 Radio Journalism
• CC3506 Reporting the Olympics
• CC3000 Dissertations

Semester B

• CC1503 Sports Journalism
• IS1209 Olympics and Paralympics in Context
• CC3507 Reporting East
• CC3000 Dissertation
• AIM Global Environmental Politics

Book Chapters

2012  ‘Environmental Activism, Citizenship and the Media’ in Carvalho, A. & Doyle, J. Citizen voices in scientific and environmental matters, in ECREA Science and Environment Communication series, London: Intellect Publishers

2011  ‘Debunking Disability: Media Discourse and the Paralympic Games’, in Gilbert, K. & Schantz, S.(eds). Heroes or Zero’s: The Media’s Portrayal of Paralympics Sport, Illinois: Common Ground Publishing.  Published late 2011

2011 Carbon Trading in the City of Undoing, in Poynter, G,. MacCrury, I. & Calcutt, A. (eds)London After Recession: a fictitious capital?, London: Ashgate Publishers

(2011) ‘ Green Britannia: Deconstructing ‘Team Green Britain’ and the London 2012 Olympic Games’, in Gilbert, K. & Savery, J.(eds). Sports and Sustainability, Illinois: Common Ground Publishing. Ch 16

 Conference Papers

2011 Deconstructing the Mediatisation of Undercover Officer Mark Kennedy and the Environmental Activism Movement to be presented at the ECREA@LSE_2011 Media and Communications International Symposium "The Mediation of Scandal and Moral Outrage"-December 2011

2011 From the homepage to the front page: Environmental activism, media strategies and new media technologies. to be presented at Environmental Politics and Conflict in an Age of Digital Media Symposium at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia (17-18 November)

2011 , Carbon Trading and the City: Is London’s future green? Presented at the Creative Futures conference, University of East London, London (June 2^nd)

2011: Environmentalism, Mega-events and the Global South, International Sports and Society conference, Kolkata, India (February)

Publications

(2010) It May Not Wash Off: unforeseen liabilities of claiming the ‘Greenest Games’, Rising East Essays, Vol 2, Series 1, No 5 (April) http://www.uel.ac.uk/risingeast/ 

(2010): Come Together: professional practice and radical protest in Proof: reading journalism and society, online at http://www.proof-reading.org/volume-1

2009: Protesters as the new gatekeepers? SNF Research Project, Protest as Medium Culture, online at http://www.protestmedia.net/cms/front_content.php

 2009: Confrontation v Carnivalesque, Encyclopaedia Britannia on-line athttp://www.britannica.com/confrontational-vs-carnivalesque

Conference Papers

2010: Environmental Activism, New Media and Heterotopias, presented at IAMCR conference, Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. (July)

2010: Activism, Moment, Place: Heterotopias of Deviance and Environmentalism, presented at Waiting for the Political Moment conference, Utrecht and Rotterdam University, Netherlands. (June)

2010: Green Britannia: Deconstructing ‘Team Green Britain’ and the London 2012 Games:  International Sports and Society conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (March)

2009: Protesters as the new gatekeepers?- An analysis of how journalistic language and new technologies shapes the identity of UK protest movements: Media, Culture : Protest conference, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland. (September)

2008: Eco-Activism and the Politics of Representation: ECREA conference, Barcelona, Spain. (November)

2008: How the News Media Shapes Environmental Direct Action: MeCCSA International conference, JOMEC, Cardiff University, South Wales. (January)

2007: Environmental Direct Action: Situating New Social Movements within Cultural Studies:Cultural Studies Now international conference, University of East London, London. (July)

2007: Activist or Terrorist: Environmental Direct Action and Media Representation.  Presented at Media, War, and Conflict conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. USA. (April)

2007: Activist or Terrorist: EDA and Media Representation: Institute of Ideas, London School of Economics and Politics, (L.S.E) London. (April)

2006: The Rearticulation of News Values: Environmental Case Study:  CRESC Media Change and Social Theory International conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford. (September)

2006:  Neo-liberalism or Counter Hegemony: Environmental Direct Action and Deconstruction: Counter-Movements: Institutions of Difference conference, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth. (July)

Invited Speaker

• Respondent – Critical Social Policy Journal, special launch event for an edition on Social Justice, Social Policy and the Environment, at the University of East London, London. (May, 2011)
• Keynote speaker- London Olympic Games and the Freelance Journalist?  at the  National Union Journalist (NUJ), Freelance Branch, London (March, 2011). http://media.gn.apc.org/fl/1104olym.html
• Discussant- The 2010 General Election: Will it mean anything? at the  University Of East London in association with Our Kingdom website. (April, 2010) http://leninology.blogspot.com/2010/04/debating-2010-election.html
• Keynote speaker, Centre for Media & Culture, Research, London South Bank University, London (September, 2009)
• Keynote speaker, Political Communications seminar, Goldsmiths, London. (February)

 Memberships of professional bodies

• Research Fellow at London East Research Institute (LERI)
• Associate Editor for the International Journal for Sport and Society, Common Ground Publishing, Illinois, USA.
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA).

Reviewer

• Peer reviewer for journals including Social Movement Studies, International Journal for Sport and Society and Communication, Culture and Critique
• Peer reviewer for National Teaching Fellowship Scheme applicants
•  Book Reviewer for National Commercial Radio Station (UK) (2003-2005)
• Conference committee organiser, Roehampton University (June 2007)

See http://uel.academia.edu/MaxineNewlands for Abstracts