Raymond Kuhn has a strong research interest in the related fields of media policy and political communication, including the policy-making process, news management, political journalism, and globalisation and the media.

He has recently supervised doctoral theses on the following topics:

• The Reform of British Television: a Policy Study
• Broadcasting and Politics in Greece
• The Politics of UK Television Policy: the Introduction of Digital Television

Applications on any aspect of the interdependence between the mass media and politics are welcome.

Catherine Needham works on political marketing and communications in the UK, focusing on political parties and government. She has incorporated concepts such as relationship marketing and policy transfer into the study of political communications, and applied them to comparative studies of the UK and USA.