{"id":929,"date":"2017-11-20T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=929"},"modified":"2017-11-20T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:37:51","slug":"professor-emeritus-colin-seymour-ure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2017\/11\/20\/professor-emeritus-colin-seymour-ure\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Emeritus: Colin Seymour-Ure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgWrapper\">\n<div class=\"imgWrapper\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2017\/11\/Seymourure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-931\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2017\/11\/Seymourure.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The School of Politics and International Relations is very sad to hear of the death of Professor Colin Seymour-Ure.<\/p>\n<p>Colin was one of the founder members of the study of politics at the University of Kent joining the University on its establishment in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>He served as Dean of Social Sciences and Head of Department. He was one of the world\u2019s leading scholars of political communications and mass media.<br \/>\nHis publications cover the role of the press and broadcasting in a wide range of issues and institutions: Downing Street and White House news management; election campaigns; images of Tony Blair and John Major in the Sun and Daily Mirror; press partisanship; the power of media barons; media policy; political rumours. He wrote the biography of the great cartoonist David Low and helped the British Cartoon Archive, founded by Dr Graham Thomas, prosper.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Seymour-Ure was a Council member of the Hansard Society and Chairman of the Study of Parliament Group, made up of parliamentary staff and academics. In the 1970s, he spent two years with a Government Press Commission. Later, he worked at Harvard and in Washington, Australia and Canada. For six years he chaired the Independent Television Commission&#8217;s committee responsible for advising on ITV&#8217;s advertising rules. He was an Emeritus Professor from 2002 and until his death in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>We have lost not only a scholar and colleague but also a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The School of Politics and International Relations is very sad to hear of the death of Professor Colin Seymour-Ure. Colin was one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2017\/11\/20\/professor-emeritus-colin-seymour-ure\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131000,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}