Kevin Robins has been involved in a number of research programs, including most recently ‘Negotiating Spaces,’ concerned with Turkish migration and media use in Europe; and an EU Framework project entitled ‘Changing City Spaces: New Challenges to Cultural Policy in Europe.’ He has also been working with the Council of Europe, particularly within its DG IV project on Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity in Europe.

His current research interests include transnational cultural studies and media policy, European culture and identity, migration and migrant cultures in Europe, Turkey and the Balkans and urban cultures. He is the author of a number of books on new technologies and new media, including Times of the Technoculture (Routledge, 1999) and The Virtual University? (Oxford, 2002), both with Frank Webster.

At present, Kevin Robins works on a part-time basis as Professor of Sociology at City University, London. From January 2008, he will lead a new research project: ‘Europe in Motion: Charting Changing Media Spaces and Policy in Europe’ within the new Media Research Program at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2007, he moved to Istanbul, where he has an involvement in the cultural studies program at Istanbul’s Bilgi University.

Kevin Robins will be a visiting scholar with Media@McGill in November 2007. For information on his public talk on November 8th, click here.