Nicole Stremlau

Nicole Stremlau 

Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP)

Senior Research Fellow 

Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Expert in: Conflict and security; New technologies
Geographic focus:  Africa

Nicole Stremlau is Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She is currently leading a large ERC project on the Politics and Practice of Social Media in Conflict. Her research focuses on media and governance, particularly in areas of conflict and insecurity in Africa. Her recent projects examine the role of new media in political participation and governance; media law and regulation in the absence of government or in weak states; the role of media in conflict, peacebuilding and the consolidation of political power; and how governments attempt to engage citizens and communicate law-making processes, particularly constitution-making. She has recently led Oxford’s contribution to a large EU project on media and democratization conflicts (MeCODEM). Stremlau’s doctoral work explored the role of media during the guerrilla insurgencies in Uganda and Ethiopia, and how the successive governments used the media to consolidate political power in the aftermath of violence.