Dr Maja Simunjak

Biography

Dr Maja Simunjak is AHRC Leadership Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Middlesex University London. She holds a PhD in Political Communication from the University of East Anglia, as well as a BA and MA in Journalism from the University of Zagreb. 

Maja previously worked at the European University Institute and the University of East Anglia. She also has extensive experience as a professional journalist and editor in various media outlets, including the positions of an editor and news anchor at a national television channel, subeditor and journalist in daily newspapers and a radio journalist and anchor.

Teaching

Maja leads several undergraduate and postgraduate modules, such as Practising Journalism, Digital Storytelling, Global Journalism and News Cultures, Multimedia and Digital Journalism skills, and Major project. She has also developed and taught modules such as Political Communication, Journalism Skills, Multimedia Journalism, Researching Journalism, etc.

She supervises postgraduate research students working on projects focused on journalism, digital and social media, and political communication. For example, she was the Director of Studies to Christa Sathish's PhD project 'Investigating academics' social media use.' She is currently supervising Maryam Jabeen's PhD project focusing on crisis literacy in the context of covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan. 

Maja previously acted as Programme Leader for BA Creative Writing & Journalism, BA Journalism & Communication, and BA Digital Media.