Dr Tom Mills

Room: MB732(b)
Phone: 0121 204 3332
Email:  [email protected]k

I am a sociologist with an interest in digital methods, social network analysis and investigative research. My work is in two overlapping areas: media and communications and elites. In both, I am concerned with examining powerful organisations and networks. I am particularly interested in critical examinations of economic and political elites, and the use of computational methods to research corporate influence, action and harms. I am the author of The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, a book which examines the BBC’s relationship with the state and the ways in which the rise of neoliberalism impacted on its organisational structure and culture. 

• Elites and inequality
• Corporate power and harms
• Think tanks and policy network
• Media and communications
• Sociology of knowledge and expertise
• Counter-terrorism and Islamophobia
• Digital methods, social network analysis, investigative research.

• Digital Methods for Social Science and Humanities (LK2041)
• Elites (LK3042)
• Racisms (LK2030)
• From Social Problems to Public Policies (LK1021)