Richard Stupart is a visiting British Academy Research Fellow at SAIIA. He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics on journalists covering conflict in South Sudan and holds Master’s in both public policy and in armed conflict and media studies. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and an assistant professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

His research is broadly focused on the practical and philosophical issues that arise when violence, media and ethics intersect. This includes work on the ethics and practices of witnessing in wartime and humanitarian situations; affect and emotion in journalism and media work; humanitarian communication; the mediation of war; the ethics of humanitarian image-making and circulation; and the epistemic structures of conflict spaces. He is an editor at the SAGE journal Media, War and Conflict and chair of the ECREA temporary working group on the ethics of mediated suffering. He has published in journals, including Journalism Practice and Media, War & Conflict, as well as presented at multiple international fora.