Natalie Martin
Dr. Natalie Martin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, where she has been based since 2019. Before entering academia, she worked extensively in journalism as a reporter for the Nottingham Evening Post, Leicester Mercury, Press Association, and Raymonds Press Agency, and later as a producer for the BBC at both regional and national levels.
She returned to academia to complete a PhD at Loughborough University between 2008 and 2012, focusing on the Turkey–EU accession process. Her research now sits at the intersection of media, politics, and security, with particular emphasis on the security dimensions of information and disinformation in the UK and Turkey.
Natalie is the author of The Securitisation of News in Turkey: Journalists as Terrorists (Palgrave, 2020), and has published widely on media systems, political communication, and disinformation. Her current work examines the relationship between journalism and disordered information, developing frameworks to explain how misleading narratives are both transmitted through news media and targeted at it, and the implications this has for democratic resilience and security.
She is also co-director of the Centre for Media, Politics and Communication Research at the University of Nottingham, an interdisciplinary research centre exploring the evolving role of media in political and social life.
