Dr David Bates
Teaching Fellow
- Email: david.bates2@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Media Culture and Heritage
School of Arts and Cultures
3rd Floor Armstrong Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Undergraduate
MCH1023 - Introduction to Media Studies
MCH1025 - Introduction to Research Methods
MCH1026 – Introduction to Social and Cultural Studies
MCH1036 – Journalism: Pasts, Present and Future
MCH2069 – Research Methods
MCH3063 – Advertising and Consumption
MCH3074 – Themes and Issues in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies
MCH3077 – Politics, Power and Communication
Postgraduate
MCH8020 - Essential Academic Skills for Media students
MCH8057 – Media Analysis
MCH8058 – Methodologies: Researching Media, Culture & Society
MCH8163 – News and Journalism
Much of my research takes the form of critical discourse studies of racism, class and migration in politics and media. My PhD thesis examined discourses of 'integration' in relation to asylum seekers and refugees in the North East of England, exploring how integration was understood and enacted by migrants, activists, policy makers, commentators and journalists. More recently my research has focused on contemporary debates around immigration and globalisation on the UK left, specifically in the Labour party. My research has been influenced significantly by critical race theory and critical discourse studies, and also by conceptions of race, class and culture found in the work of figures such as Stuart Hall, Raymond Williams and EP Thompson. I am especially interested in the production of knowledge which can contribute to struggles for radical, transformative social change. "Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in god's name is the point of cultural studies?" - Stuart Hall.
- Bates D. The “red door” controversy—Middlesbrough's asylum seekers and the discursive politics of racism. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 2017, 27(2), 126–136.
- Bates D. Prejudice on the doorstep: Labour activists talk immigration. In: Ibrahim, J & Roberts, JR, ed. Contemporary Left Wing Activism Vol 1: Democracy, Participation and Dissent in a Global Context. London: Routledge, 2018. In Press.
- Bates D, Kirkwood S. 'We Didnae Do Anything Great…' Discursive Strategies for Resisting Detention and Deportation in Scotland and the North East of England. Refugee Review 2013, 1(1), 20-30.
- Bates D. In it together: Asylum, multiculturalism and grassroots integration in twenty-first century Britain. E-sharp 2012, Special Issue: The 1951 UN Refugee Convention - 60 Years On, 113-139. In Preparation.
- Bates D. Making the White Folk Angry: The Media, “Race” and Electoral Politics in the United Kingdom in 2010. PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication 2011, 3(1), 8-25. In Preparation.
- Saeed A, Bates D. Clashing the Civilisations: Muslims and radical politics. In: Pugh, J, ed. What Is Radical Politics Today?. London: Palgrave, 2010, pp.170-8.