Career
Gauntlett graduated from the University of York in Sociology in 1992. He then took his PhD and then taught at the University of Leeds from 1993 to 2002 (34 in university rankings), then was appointed Professor of Media and Audiences at Bournemouth University (61 in university rankings). In 2006 he joined the School of Media, Arts and Design at University of Westminster (73 in university rankings, 2012) as Professor of Media and Communications.
He is Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute, ranked #1 for Media and Communications research in the Research Assessment Exercise held most recently in 2008.
Gauntlett's critique of media 'effects' studies sparked controversy in 1995, and since then he has published a number of books and research on the role of popular media in people's lives. In particular he has focused on the way in which digital media is changing the experience of media in general.
Since the late 1990s he has produced the website Theory.org.uk.
In Reading Media Theory, Barlow & Mills state: "David Gauntlett is a prominent, public academic, who has spent his career engaging in research activities which have deliberately involved the public, and have crossed the traditional divide between the academic community and the outside world."
In 2007, he was shortlisted for the 'Young Academic Author of the Year' award in the Times Higher awards. Richard Toye, of Exeter University, won the award.
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