Ceri Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ceri Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ceri |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9495-8153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Get Britain Working? Continuity and Change in Labour’s Post-2024 Welfare and Employment Strategy
From manifesto pledges to election victory in 2024, the Labour Party has positioned ‘spiralling economic inactivity’ as the central employment and welfare challenge. This article critically examines Labour’s first year in power, with a focus on employment policies at the intersection of in-work poverty, economic insecurity, and inactivity. We begin by outlining the current labour market context, questioning the narrative underpinning Labour’s wel…
Why media platforms police the boundaries of impartiality: A comparative analysis of television news and fact-checking in the UK
This article explores whether different media platforms across impartial news media supplied the same level of scrutiny in how they fact-checked political claims. While prior research has largely focused on independent fact-checking organisations, the fact-checking practices of legacy media through a cross-platform perspective have comparatively received limited attention. The study develops new lines of inquiry into the fact-checking practices o…
Rebuilding Tripartism and Labor Standards From Below? Legitimation Politics and Risks Around Local Employment Standards
Establishing voluntary labor standards depends on securing the voluntary engagement of multiple actors with potentially diverging interests. This paper examines the legitimation politics and processes surrounding attempts to develop local labor standards through an empirical study of local employment charters in England. These forms of soft regulation, promoted by local state actors, ask employers to commit to flexible ‘good’ work principles. We …
An Inclusive Economy Classification of British Local Authority Districts and Assessment of Its Association With Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation
Using primarily open‐source data, we curated 13 indicators to consistently capture the concept of the inclusive economy across Local Authority Districts in Great Britain. We used unsupervised k ‐means clustering to identify clusters of similar Local Authority Districts with respect to their economic inclusivity. We identified four distinct clusters of Local Authority Districts, those which are: (1) more economically inclusive; (2) less economical…
Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development
Crises spur reflection and re-evaluation of what matters and what is valued. The impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency are reigniting debates about the nature of economic development approaches and what they aim to achieve in urban settings. Addressing a substantive gap in contemporary debates by helping to navigate a burgeoning and diverse field, this paper provides a critical and comparative assess…
Re-examining 'personalised conditionality: Full-time obligations, partial adjustments and power asymmetries in the UK's approach to work-related conditionality
Work-related conditionality policy in the UK is built around the problematic assumption that people should commit to 'full-time' work and job search efforts as a condition of receiving benefits. This is potentially in conflict with the idea that what is required of people should be tailored to their circumstances in some way - 'personalised conditionality' - and implies a failure to recognise that conditionality is being applied to a diverse grou…
Introduction: The Future of Journalism in a (Post?) Covid-19 World
The Future of Journalism conference—organised every two years by the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University—was radically different in 2021. For the first time ever, the conference was held virtually, because of the travelling restrictions and social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic
Does the Political Context Shape How “Due Impartiality” is Interpreted? An Analysis of BBC Reporting of the 2019 UK and 2020 US Election Campaigns
Balance and impartiality are central principles in journalism, but this study argues their conceptual application in news reporting should be subject to more academic scrutiny. In the UK, the way “due impartiality” has been applied and regulated by broadcasters has raised concerns about promoting a ‘she-said-he-said’ style of reporting, which constructs balance but not scrutiny of competing claims. In this study, we analyse how the UK’s “due impa…
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance
Advocates of inclusive growth claim it provides policymakers with a means of combining economic success with social inclusivity, making it highly attractive across a wide range of settings. Here, we explore how three UK policy organizations (a devolved national government, a city region combined authority, and a local council) are pursuing inclusive growth goals. Drawing on 51 semistructured interviews, documentary analysis and policy ethnography…
Questioning Fact-Checking in the Fight Against Disinformation: An Audience Perspective
Fact-checking has been identified as a significant journalistic tool in the fight against disinformation. Relevant studies have focused on its emergence as a movement within journalism aiming at renewing the profession, as well as its effectiveness in challenging disinformation, especially during elections. However, little has been said about how audiences themselves understand fact-checking and employ it in their daily consumption of news. In th…
Audience understandings of disinformation: Navigating News Media Through a Prism of Pragmatic Scepticism
The content and effects of disinformation have become a focal point in communication studies over recent years. But how media audiences themselves interpret the meaning of disinformation and mitigate the risks it poses to their understanding of the world have remained largely understudied. This article draws upon a UK-based focus group study that examines how people conceptualise disinformation, and the ways this informs their engagement with new…
News Media Use, Talk Networks, and Anti-Elitism across Geographic Location: Evidence from Wisconsin
A certain social-political geography recurs across European and North American societies: As post-industrialization and mechanization of agriculture have disrupted economies, rural and nonmetropolitan areas are aging and declining in population, leading to widening political and cultural gaps between metropolitan and rural communities. Yet political communication research tends to focus on national or cross-national levels, often emphasizing netw…
Free and Fair? The Differential Experiences of Voting Barriers and Voting Policies in American Midterm Elections
In this research note, we provide evidence about burdens people face when voting and who benefits from policies designed to mitigate those burdens. Using pre-and-post 2018 midterm elections panel surveys in Wisconsin, we show that Black voters estimate greater time getting to the polls and Hispanic voters report longer wait times once they are there. Regarding who takes advantage of policies purported to ease these burdens on voting—early voting,…
Understanding inclusive growth at local level: Changing patterns and types of neighbourhood disadvantage in three English city-regions
Rather than assuming there will be trickle down benefits, it is argued that efforts to promote inclusive growth should be rooted in an understanding of the experiences of different people and places. The article presents empirical analysis of changes in the ways that deprived neighbourhoods in three English city-regions are linked to the wider economy, drawing on a typology of residential mobility and population-level indicators of economic and s…
It’s Not Easy Being Green, White, Red, and Blue: Constituency Representations Versus Electoral Competition in the Wisconsin Green Party
Debatable sphere: Major party hegemony, minor party marginalization in the UK leaders’ debate
The United Kingdom political landscape has historically been dominated by the two main political parties: Labour and the Conservatives. However, by the 2010 General Election, their vote share had dropped to 65%. The 2010 election also saw a new development enter the UK political landscape—televised leaders’ debates, which featured the leaders of the three largest political parties. Discussions before the 2015 General Election resulted in a decisi…
Do Improving Conditions Harden Partisan Preferences? Lived Experiences, Imagined Communities, and Polarized Evaluations
Despite growing attention to an increasing partisan divide and populist voting, little attention has been directed at how social contexts might encourage greater or lesser political polarization. We address this gap by studying how county-level conditions—economic resilience, population change, and community health—intersect with individuals’ political orientations and communication patterns to shape partisan evaluations. Our context is Wisconsin…
It’s the EU immigrants stupid! Ukip’s core-issue and populist rhetoric on the road to Brexit
The 2016 vote to leave the European Union was one of the biggest developments in recent United Kingdom political history. Only one political party was wholly united for Brexit – the United Kingdom Independence Party. This research finds that in the years leading up to Brexit, the United Kingdom Independence Party presented itself as a rigid core-issue complete-populist party. Content analysis shows how pervasive the European Union was in much of …
It’s not easy (not) being green: Agenda dissonance of Green Party press relations and newspaper coverage
The Green Party of England and Wales is trying to move from being perceived as a party with a specific environmental focus to a broad-spectrum political force with policy and opinion across the full range of political issues. How does the UK press respond to this change of agenda by the party? An analysis of UK newspaper articles and Green Party press releases reveals a dissonance between what is discussed by the party and what is printed about t…
P2-331 Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug and aspirin use and the risk of head and neck cancer: A systematic review
Introduction Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been associated with a reduced risk of several cancers. We conducted a systematic literature review to investigate the association between NSAID/aspirin use and risk of head and neck cancer (HNC). Method Medline, Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Library and Web of Science were systematically searched using terms for NSAIDs/aspirin, HNC and observational/intervention study designs. Res…
Audience understandings of disinformation: Navigating News Media Through a Prism of Pragmatic Scepticism
The content and effects of disinformation have become a focal point in communication studies over recent years. But how media audiences themselves interpret the meaning of disinformation and mitigate the risks it poses to their understanding of the world have remained largely understudied. This article draws upon a UK-based focus group study that examines how people conceptualise disinformation, and the ways this informs their engagement with new…
Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development
Crises spur reflection and re-evaluation of what matters and what is valued. The impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency are reigniting debates about the nature of economic development approaches and what they aim to achieve in urban settings. Addressing a substantive gap in contemporary debates by helping to navigate a burgeoning and diverse field, this paper provides a critical and comparative assess…
News Media Use, Talk Networks, and Anti-Elitism across Geographic Location: Evidence from Wisconsin
A certain social-political geography recurs across European and North American societies: As post-industrialization and mechanization of agriculture have disrupted economies, rural and nonmetropolitan areas are aging and declining in population, leading to widening political and cultural gaps between metropolitan and rural communities. Yet political communication research tends to focus on national or cross-national levels, often emphasizing netw…
Understanding inclusive growth at local level: Changing patterns and types of neighbourhood disadvantage in three English city-regions
Rather than assuming there will be trickle down benefits, it is argued that efforts to promote inclusive growth should be rooted in an understanding of the experiences of different people and places. The article presents empirical analysis of changes in the ways that deprived neighbourhoods in three English city-regions are linked to the wider economy, drawing on a typology of residential mobility and population-level indicators of economic and s…
It’s the EU immigrants stupid! Ukip’s core-issue and populist rhetoric on the road to Brexit
The 2016 vote to leave the European Union was one of the biggest developments in recent United Kingdom political history. Only one political party was wholly united for Brexit – the United Kingdom Independence Party. This research finds that in the years leading up to Brexit, the United Kingdom Independence Party presented itself as a rigid core-issue complete-populist party. Content analysis shows how pervasive the European Union was in much of …
Do Improving Conditions Harden Partisan Preferences? Lived Experiences, Imagined Communities, and Polarized Evaluations
Despite growing attention to an increasing partisan divide and populist voting, little attention has been directed at how social contexts might encourage greater or lesser political polarization. We address this gap by studying how county-level conditions—economic resilience, population change, and community health—intersect with individuals’ political orientations and communication patterns to shape partisan evaluations. Our context is Wisconsin…
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance
Advocates of inclusive growth claim it provides policymakers with a means of combining economic success with social inclusivity, making it highly attractive across a wide range of settings. Here, we explore how three UK policy organizations (a devolved national government, a city region combined authority, and a local council) are pursuing inclusive growth goals. Drawing on 51 semistructured interviews, documentary analysis and policy ethnography…
Questioning Fact-Checking in the Fight Against Disinformation: An Audience Perspective
Fact-checking has been identified as a significant journalistic tool in the fight against disinformation. Relevant studies have focused on its emergence as a movement within journalism aiming at renewing the profession, as well as its effectiveness in challenging disinformation, especially during elections. However, little has been said about how audiences themselves understand fact-checking and employ it in their daily consumption of news. In th…
It’s not easy (not) being green: Agenda dissonance of Green Party press relations and newspaper coverage
The Green Party of England and Wales is trying to move from being perceived as a party with a specific environmental focus to a broad-spectrum political force with policy and opinion across the full range of political issues. How does the UK press respond to this change of agenda by the party? An analysis of UK newspaper articles and Green Party press releases reveals a dissonance between what is discussed by the party and what is printed about t…
Re-examining 'personalised conditionality: Full-time obligations, partial adjustments and power asymmetries in the UK's approach to work-related conditionality
Work-related conditionality policy in the UK is built around the problematic assumption that people should commit to 'full-time' work and job search efforts as a condition of receiving benefits. This is potentially in conflict with the idea that what is required of people should be tailored to their circumstances in some way - 'personalised conditionality' - and implies a failure to recognise that conditionality is being applied to a diverse grou…
Introduction: The Future of Journalism in a (Post?) Covid-19 World
The Future of Journalism conference—organised every two years by the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University—was radically different in 2021. For the first time ever, the conference was held virtually, because of the travelling restrictions and social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic
Does the Political Context Shape How “Due Impartiality” is Interpreted? An Analysis of BBC Reporting of the 2019 UK and 2020 US Election Campaigns
Balance and impartiality are central principles in journalism, but this study argues their conceptual application in news reporting should be subject to more academic scrutiny. In the UK, the way “due impartiality” has been applied and regulated by broadcasters has raised concerns about promoting a ‘she-said-he-said’ style of reporting, which constructs balance but not scrutiny of competing claims. In this study, we analyse how the UK’s “due impa…
Debatable sphere: Major party hegemony, minor party marginalization in the UK leaders’ debate
The United Kingdom political landscape has historically been dominated by the two main political parties: Labour and the Conservatives. However, by the 2010 General Election, their vote share had dropped to 65%. The 2010 election also saw a new development enter the UK political landscape—televised leaders’ debates, which featured the leaders of the three largest political parties. Discussions before the 2015 General Election resulted in a decisi…
P2-331 Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug and aspirin use and the risk of head and neck cancer: A systematic review
Introduction Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been associated with a reduced risk of several cancers. We conducted a systematic literature review to investigate the association between NSAID/aspirin use and risk of head and neck cancer (HNC). Method Medline, Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Library and Web of Science were systematically searched using terms for NSAIDs/aspirin, HNC and observational/intervention study designs. Res…
It’s not easy (not) being green: Agenda dissonance of Green Party press relations and newspaper coverage
The Green Party of England and Wales is trying to move from being perceived as a party with a specific environmental focus to a broad-spectrum political force with policy and opinion across the full range of political issues. How does the UK press respond to this change of agenda by the party? An analysis of UK newspaper articles and Green Party press releases reveals a dissonance between what is discussed by the party and what is printed about t…
Debatable sphere: Major party hegemony, minor party marginalization in the UK leaders’ debate
The United Kingdom political landscape has historically been dominated by the two main political parties: Labour and the Conservatives. However, by the 2010 General Election, their vote share had dropped to 65%. The 2010 election also saw a new development enter the UK political landscape—televised leaders’ debates, which featured the leaders of the three largest political parties. Discussions before the 2015 General Election resulted in a decisi…
Do Improving Conditions Harden Partisan Preferences? Lived Experiences, Imagined Communities, and Polarized Evaluations
Despite growing attention to an increasing partisan divide and populist voting, little attention has been directed at how social contexts might encourage greater or lesser political polarization. We address this gap by studying how county-level conditions—economic resilience, population change, and community health—intersect with individuals’ political orientations and communication patterns to shape partisan evaluations. Our context is Wisconsin…
It’s the EU immigrants stupid! Ukip’s core-issue and populist rhetoric on the road to Brexit
The 2016 vote to leave the European Union was one of the biggest developments in recent United Kingdom political history. Only one political party was wholly united for Brexit – the United Kingdom Independence Party. This research finds that in the years leading up to Brexit, the United Kingdom Independence Party presented itself as a rigid core-issue complete-populist party. Content analysis shows how pervasive the European Union was in much of …
Understanding inclusive growth at local level: Changing patterns and types of neighbourhood disadvantage in three English city-regions
Rather than assuming there will be trickle down benefits, it is argued that efforts to promote inclusive growth should be rooted in an understanding of the experiences of different people and places. The article presents empirical analysis of changes in the ways that deprived neighbourhoods in three English city-regions are linked to the wider economy, drawing on a typology of residential mobility and population-level indicators of economic and s…
It’s Not Easy Being Green, White, Red, and Blue: Constituency Representations Versus Electoral Competition in the Wisconsin Green Party
News Media Use, Talk Networks, and Anti-Elitism across Geographic Location: Evidence from Wisconsin
A certain social-political geography recurs across European and North American societies: As post-industrialization and mechanization of agriculture have disrupted economies, rural and nonmetropolitan areas are aging and declining in population, leading to widening political and cultural gaps between metropolitan and rural communities. Yet political communication research tends to focus on national or cross-national levels, often emphasizing netw…
Free and Fair? The Differential Experiences of Voting Barriers and Voting Policies in American Midterm Elections
In this research note, we provide evidence about burdens people face when voting and who benefits from policies designed to mitigate those burdens. Using pre-and-post 2018 midterm elections panel surveys in Wisconsin, we show that Black voters estimate greater time getting to the polls and Hispanic voters report longer wait times once they are there. Regarding who takes advantage of policies purported to ease these burdens on voting—early voting,…
Questioning Fact-Checking in the Fight Against Disinformation: An Audience Perspective
Fact-checking has been identified as a significant journalistic tool in the fight against disinformation. Relevant studies have focused on its emergence as a movement within journalism aiming at renewing the profession, as well as its effectiveness in challenging disinformation, especially during elections. However, little has been said about how audiences themselves understand fact-checking and employ it in their daily consumption of news. In th…
Audience understandings of disinformation: Navigating News Media Through a Prism of Pragmatic Scepticism
The content and effects of disinformation have become a focal point in communication studies over recent years. But how media audiences themselves interpret the meaning of disinformation and mitigate the risks it poses to their understanding of the world have remained largely understudied. This article draws upon a UK-based focus group study that examines how people conceptualise disinformation, and the ways this informs their engagement with new…
Introduction: The Future of Journalism in a (Post?) Covid-19 World
The Future of Journalism conference—organised every two years by the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University—was radically different in 2021. For the first time ever, the conference was held virtually, because of the travelling restrictions and social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic
Does the Political Context Shape How “Due Impartiality” is Interpreted? An Analysis of BBC Reporting of the 2019 UK and 2020 US Election Campaigns
Balance and impartiality are central principles in journalism, but this study argues their conceptual application in news reporting should be subject to more academic scrutiny. In the UK, the way “due impartiality” has been applied and regulated by broadcasters has raised concerns about promoting a ‘she-said-he-said’ style of reporting, which constructs balance but not scrutiny of competing claims. In this study, we analyse how the UK’s “due impa…
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance
Advocates of inclusive growth claim it provides policymakers with a means of combining economic success with social inclusivity, making it highly attractive across a wide range of settings. Here, we explore how three UK policy organizations (a devolved national government, a city region combined authority, and a local council) are pursuing inclusive growth goals. Drawing on 51 semistructured interviews, documentary analysis and policy ethnography…
Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development
Crises spur reflection and re-evaluation of what matters and what is valued. The impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency are reigniting debates about the nature of economic development approaches and what they aim to achieve in urban settings. Addressing a substantive gap in contemporary debates by helping to navigate a burgeoning and diverse field, this paper provides a critical and comparative assess…
Re-examining 'personalised conditionality: Full-time obligations, partial adjustments and power asymmetries in the UK's approach to work-related conditionality
Work-related conditionality policy in the UK is built around the problematic assumption that people should commit to 'full-time' work and job search efforts as a condition of receiving benefits. This is potentially in conflict with the idea that what is required of people should be tailored to their circumstances in some way - 'personalised conditionality' - and implies a failure to recognise that conditionality is being applied to a diverse grou…
Why media platforms police the boundaries of impartiality: A comparative analysis of television news and fact-checking in the UK
This article explores whether different media platforms across impartial news media supplied the same level of scrutiny in how they fact-checked political claims. While prior research has largely focused on independent fact-checking organisations, the fact-checking practices of legacy media through a cross-platform perspective have comparatively received limited attention. The study develops new lines of inquiry into the fact-checking practices o…
Rebuilding Tripartism and Labor Standards From Below? Legitimation Politics and Risks Around Local Employment Standards
Establishing voluntary labor standards depends on securing the voluntary engagement of multiple actors with potentially diverging interests. This paper examines the legitimation politics and processes surrounding attempts to develop local labor standards through an empirical study of local employment charters in England. These forms of soft regulation, promoted by local state actors, ask employers to commit to flexible ‘good’ work principles. We …
An Inclusive Economy Classification of British Local Authority Districts and Assessment of Its Association With Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation
Using primarily open‐source data, we curated 13 indicators to consistently capture the concept of the inclusive economy across Local Authority Districts in Great Britain. We used unsupervised k ‐means clustering to identify clusters of similar Local Authority Districts with respect to their economic inclusivity. We identified four distinct clusters of Local Authority Districts, those which are: (1) more economically inclusive; (2) less economical…
Get Britain Working? Continuity and Change in Labour’s Post-2024 Welfare and Employment Strategy
From manifesto pledges to election victory in 2024, the Labour Party has positioned ‘spiralling economic inactivity’ as the central employment and welfare challenge. This article critically examines Labour’s first year in power, with a focus on employment policies at the intersection of in-work poverty, economic insecurity, and inactivity. We begin by outlining the current labour market context, questioning the narrative underpinning Labour’s wel…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works)