Ivor Gaber
@ivorgaber.bsky.social
Journalist Prof and former news journalist. UK representative at UNESCO’s media freedom body. Govt adviser. Specialist in media development and training.
Ivor Harold Gaber is a British academic and journalist, a former professor of political journalism at University of Sussex, and emeritus professor of broadcast journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London. He serves as the UK representative on UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication. .. more
Communication & Media Studies
42%
Political science
36%
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
Can we now assume that the Office for Students will undertake an investigation into how Sheffield Hallam infringed the academic freedom of Professor Murphy as they did into Sussex University and Prof. Kathleen Stock? Strangely missing from their quote.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Prospect’ raises serious questions about the conduct of the Office for Students’ investigation into the University of Sussex and the trans debate.
Ivor Gaber
@ivorgaber.bsky.social
· Oct 1
How ‘idiots’ became citizens
A book that reveals shifting attitudes between sympathy and exclusion in society’s treatment of learning disability
www.thenewworld.co.uk
A surprising history of our treatment of people with learning difficulties- those we used to call ‘idiots’ www.thenewworld.co.uk/ivor-gaber-h...