Prof Michal Krzyzanowski MA, PhD, D.Litt. (Habil)

Personal Statement

Michał Krzyżanowski joined University of Liverpool's Communication & Media Department in 2017 as the Chair in Communication and Media and in 2018 became a Research Chair.

While at Liverpool, he has held various roles including as Head of Department of Communication and Media or as the founding Director of its internationally known research group in Discourse and Society.

Following earlier appointments at, inter alia, the Universities of Vienna in Austria (2002-04), Lancaster in England (2004-11), the University of Aberdeen in Scotland (2012-13) and Örebro University, Sweden (2013-20), Michał has since 2020 been holding the Chair in Media and Communication Studies as well as leading Media and Communication concentration at the School of Informatics and Media of the prestigious Uppsala University in Sweden. Throughout his career, Michał has also held many visiting appointments, most recently at Stockholm University, Sweden (2018-19) and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2020-21).

Michał is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Language and Politics which is currently among the leading journals in critical discourse analysis of political, mediated and digital communication. He is also a co-editor of the book series Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies. He also sits on a number of editorial boards including of such journals as Critical Discourse Studies or Social Semiotics or such book series as DATA Browser.

Michał also has extensive experience in knowledge exchange work and engagement with policy and industry. He has previously collaborated with national and international media organisations (e.g. Financial Times, Swedish Public Television SVT, TOK FM Radio Poland), with politics & policy-makers (e.g. the European Commission or the European Parliament) and with national and international non-governmental sector (e.g. Save the Children, Stockholm; Institute for Public Affairs, Warsaw; Hrant Dink Foundation & Hate Speech Projects, Istanbul).

For more information about Michał's ongoing research, publications and activities please see his Google Scholar or his Twitter Profile.