Dr Djordje Sredanovic
Lecturer
Biography
Djordje Sredanovic is a lecturer in Sociology at the Division for Social and Political Science, with a further background in Media Studies. He has obtained a BA and MA in Communication from the University of Bologna and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Padua. Before joining the University of Chester he has held postdoctoral positions at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Manchester, has taught at the University of Bologna and guest-lectured in several institutions in Italy, the UK and Belgium. He is a specialist in the study of citizenship, migration and media, and has an extensive research and publication experience.
Teaching and Supervision
Djordje is the lead for the modules in Media, Representation and Society (SO4104), Race and the Modern World (SO5107), Social Theory (SO5110) and Social Change and Social Movements (SO6102).
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Djordje has worked extensively on the study of citizenship, with projects on the meaning of citizenship for migrants and local factory workers in Italy, comparative citizenship policies across Europe, and the uses and value of national and EU citizenship in the UK and Belgium in the context of Brexit. He is further an expert in the study of everyday implementation of migration policies, having worked on the bureaucracies of citizenship and integration in the UK and Belgium. Other domains of migration policy that he has explored include asylum policies in Italy and the study of ID and migration controls in the UK. His work in media studies has focused on the representations of migrants and on the representations of the EU and Europe in Italian media. Finally, he has studied the experiences of rights among factory workers in Italy.