Katy Brown

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I am a Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice at Manchester Metropolitan University. My research focuses on the mainstreaming of the far right, exploring how far-right politics becomes normalised in society. Rather than focusing on the actions of the far right in driving its own success, I am especially interested in the key role played by mainstream actors from politics and media in this process.

Prior to my current role at MMU, I completed my ESRC-funded PhD on far-right mainstreaming during the Brexit referendum at the University of Bath. I then secured an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship at Maynooth University to study broadsheet reporting on the far right in the UK, Ireland, France and Italy.

​I have published articles and chapters on the topics of mainstreaming, far-right discourse, populism, methodology and research ethics, and I have a book contract with Bloomsbury on the mainstreaming of the far right. I have been interviewed about my research by national and international media outlets, such as Al Jazeera, France24, Euronews, BFM Radio and RTV Slovenia.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Postdoctoral fellow, Maynooth University
  • –present
    Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice, Manchester Metropolitan University

Education

  • 2023 
    University of Bath, Politics

Publications

  • 2024
    Perceptions of the ‘mainstream’and the mainstreaming of the far right: from Ed Sheeran to Keir Starmer, Journal of Political Ideologies
  • 2024
    Researching the far right: towards an ethics of talking 'about', The ethics of researching the far right: critical approaches and reflections
  • 2024
    ‘Post-fascism’, or how the far right talks about itself: the 2022 Italian election campaign as a case study, Critical Discourse Studies
  • 2024
    New opportunities for discourse studies: Combining discourse theory, critical discourse studies and corpus linguistics, Journal of Language and Politics
  • 2024
    The populist hype, Research Handbook on Populism
  • 2023
    The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: Towards a heuristic framework, Journal of Political Ideologies
  • 2021
    Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study, Politics
  • 2021
    ‘I’m not “racist” but’: Liberalism, Populism and Euphemisation in the Guardian, Capitalism's Conscience
  • 2020
    When Eurosceptics become Europhiles: far-right opposition to Turkish involvement in the European Union, Identities

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    The role of the media in understanding, mainstreaming and countering the far right
    Role:
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Funding Source:
    Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 2018
    Talking ‘with’ and ‘about’ the far right: putting the mainstream in mainstreaming
    Role:
    Doctoral Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Economic and Social Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • Reactionary Politics Research Network
  • Political Studies Association
  • Association for Global Political Thought

Contact Katy for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision