drSamuel Bennett

Samuel Bennett
Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Websites / Profiles:

Degrees

  • B.A. in International Relations, University of Sussex, 2003
  • M.A in Peace and Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Spain 2005
  • PhD in Linguistics, Poznań, 2015

Research interests

  • Critical Discourse Studies
  • Populism and Far-right discourses
  • Immigration and Integration
  • Social media and social movements
  • European identity and values
  • DEMOS: Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe. Horizon 2020 EU Project (Researcher)
  • MEDIVA: Media for Diversity and Migrant Integration (Researcher)
  • Colonial Forgettings Colonialism and decolonising education

Teaching experience

  • English as a Foreign Language
  • Human Rights
  • British and American Life and Institutions
  • Communication in the European Union

Grants and funding awarded

  • ESSE Type A Research Bursary, 2013
  • Conference attendance grant, British Sociological Association, Birmingham, June 2013
  • Conference attendance grant, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, November 2013
  • Erasmus+ STA, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2019
  • Erasmus+ STA, Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium, April 2022
  • Erasmus+ STA, University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, October 2022

Other Professional Experience

  • Assistant Editor, Journal of Language & Politics
  • LANCOM Research Group organiser
  • Teaching Assistant, European Consortium for Political Research Methods School:
    • Ljublijana 2015
    • Budapest 2016
  • Critical Discourse Analysis methods workshop, Tomas Bata University, Zliń, Czechia, 8-9 March 2019

Papers read at international conferences, congresses and workshops

  • 6th Global Conference: Pluralism, Inclusion, Citizenship, Prague, March 2011
  • Poznań Linguistic Meeting, May 1st-3rd, 2011
  • Young Linguists Meeting, Poznan, May 2012
  • MEDIVA International Workshop, Utrecht, May 2012
  • MEDIVA National Workshop, Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Warsaw May 2012
  • Race, Migration and Citizenship: Post-colonial perspectives, British Sociological Association, Birmingham, July 2013
  • Discourse, Gender and Sexuality: South-South Dialogues, Wits University, Johannesburg, November 2013
  • Political Linguistics III, Warsaw, May 2014
  • Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD), Budapest, September 2014
  • Laws, walls and crises, University of Helsinki, April 2016
  • Mediatisation and Politicisation of the Refugee Crisis in Europe Workshop, European University Institute, Florence, April 2016
  • Forging Linguistic Identities: Language in the Nation, the Region & the World, Towson University, Baltimore, March 2017
  • Towards the development of the mediatization research, Wroclaw, December 2017
  • Co-organiser, Political Discourse in Poland: Current Changes and Challenges, Poznań, May 2018
  • 27th PASE Conference "Language, art, literature: In search of identity", Łódź, June 2018
  • Europe in Discourse II: Agendas of Reform,Athens, Greece, September 2018
  • In the Name of the People: Representing the People in Twenty-first Century Politics, Pamplona, November 2018
  • DiscourseNet 23, Bergamo, June 2019
  • European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, online, August 2020
  • Plenary lecture, Approaches to Language, Migration and Identity, Sussex University/online, June 2021
  • Futures of Populism Workshop, Glasgow Caledonian University, May 2022
  • Critical Approaches to Discourse Across Disciplines 2022, University of Bergamo, July 2022
  • Plenary presentation, Europe in Discourse III, Hellenic American University, September 2022

Guest lectures

  • Negotiating community and belonging: Migrant discourses of (local) integration, Orebro University, December 2015
  • Seminar: Media, Migration and Migrant Integration: Analysing Discourses and Practices, Orebro University, December 2015
  • Deserving and Undeserving Migrants: Neo-liberal Discourses of Citizenship in the United Kingdom, University of Helsinki, April 2016
  • Immigration and Integration: Public sphere discourses and media practices, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 2017

Publications:

Bennett, Samuel. 2022. “Designing Qualitative Discourse Analysis Research with Twitter.” In The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design, edited by Uwe Flick, 886–902, London: SAGE.

Bennett, Samuel. 2022. ‘Mythopoetic Legitimation and the Recontextualisation of Europe’s Foundational Myth’. Journal of Language and Politics. John Benjamins.

Zappettini, Franco, and Samuel Bennett. 2022. ‘Reimagining Europe and Its (Dis)Integration: (De)Legitimising the EU’s Project in Times of Crisis’. Journal of Language and Politics. John Benjamins.

Bennett, Samuel. 2021. "‘Crisis’ as a discursive strategy in Brexit referendum campaigns" in Franco Zappettini and Michał Krzyżanowski (eds.) "Brexit" as a Social and Political Crisis Discourses in Media and Politics. London: Routledge, pp.449-464.

Bennett, Samuel et al. 2020. Populist communication on social media. DEMOS Working paper.

Bennett, Samuel, and Cezary Kwiatkowski. 2019. "The Environment as an emerging discourse in Polish far-right politics", in Bernhard Forchtner (ed) The Far Right and the Environment: Politics, Discourse and Communication. London: Routledge, pp. 237-253.

Bennett, Samuel. 2019. "Standing up for ‘real people’: UKIP, the Brexit, and discursive strategies on Twitter", in Zienkowski, Jan, and Ruth Breeze (eds.) Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 230-256.

Bennett, Samuel. 2019. "‘Crisis’ as a discursive strategy in Brexit referendum campaigns", Critical Discourse Studies 16(4): 449-464.

Bennett, Samuel. 2019. "Values as tools of legitimation in EU and UK Brexit discourses", in Koller, Veronika, Susanne Kopf, and Marlene Miglbauer (eds.) Discourses of Brexit. London: Routledge, pp. 17-32.

Bennett, Sam. 2018. Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse: Becoming British (London: Bloomsbury)

Bennett, Sam. 2018. “New ‘Crises’, Old Habits: Online Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in UK Migration Policy Discourses", Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 16(1): 1-21.

Bennett, Sam. 2017. “Whose line is it anyway?: The diffusion of discursive frames in Pride movements of the South.” Journal of Language and Politics 16(3): 345-366.

Bennett, Samuel. 2015. Book review: P. Bayley and G. Williams (eds.) (2012). European Identity: What the Media Say. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Journal of Language and Politics, 14(2), pp. 309-313

Bennett, Samuel. 2015. “Performing Citizenship and Integration in the UK”, in Gozdecka, Dorota and Magdalena Kmak (eds.), Europe at the Edge of Pluralism. Cambridge: Intersentia, pp 115-129.

Bennett, Samuel. 2015. “Constructions of Community in a Local Newspaper Over Time”, in: Krzyżanowska, Natalia and Karolina Nowak, (eds.). Urban Transitions. Torun: Adam Marszalek, pp. 171-193

Bennett, Samuel, Jessika Ter Wal, Artur Lipinski, Malgorzata Fabiszak and Michal Krzyzanowski. 2012. “The representation of Third Country Nationals in European news discourse: Journalistic perceptions and practice. Journalism Studies

Bennett, Samuel. 2011. “Above, below and between the Lines: A Critical Analysis of the Interplay between Articles and Online Comments on Immigration in the UK Media”, in Jovanović Maldoran, Srdjan (ed.) Citizenship, Inclusion or Exclusion. Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press.

Bennett, Samuel, Jessika ter Wal, Artur Lipinski, Małgorzata Fabiszak and Michał Krzyżanowski. 2011. Media Content. MEDIVA thematic reports, 2011/02. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/19730

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