Gary D. Rawnsley | |
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Born | Gary David Rawnsley[1] 1970 (age 53–54) Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
Spouse | Ming-Yeh Rawnsley |
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Alma mater | University of Leeds |
Thesis | Nation Unto Nation: The BBC and VOA in International Politics, 1956-64 (1994) |
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Gary David Rawnsley FRSA (born 1970) is a British political scientist whose research is located at the intersection of international relations and international communication.[2][3] Rawnsley writes extensively on soft power, public and cultural diplomacy, propaganda, international broadcasting, media and democracy, and political cinema. He is the author/editor of 13 scholarly books, and the book review editor of Journal of International Communication and International Journal of Taiwan Studies.[4] Since 2023, he has been Professor of Public Diplomacy & Soft Power and Head of the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Lincoln. From 2020 to 2022, Rawnsley was a professor of public diplomacy at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of this university.[5]