About

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Creative and Cultural Industries Research Centre, where I contribute to ongoing research projects and undertake initiatives to develop innovative ideas and methodologies regarding the capture of public engagement and impact.

Research interests

I am a researcher in the media and creative industries, focusing on gendered, (post-)colonial, and diasporic media and memory, and their entanglements within the wider media ecology. I am very interested in archival, online, and creative methods, and I care about public engagement and the impact my research and teaching have on wider society.

I am currently working on the following projects:

"She Was There: Remembering and Reimagining Muslim British Bangladeshi Women in 1970s Anti-Racist Struggles" in collaboration with Tower Hamlets Council (ECR Development Funding, £2000).

"The Cultural Memory of Mis- and Disinformation: Remembering the 2022 Leicester Unrest" (BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant 2025-26 Round, £8,878.57)

Membership of professional bodies

• British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (Member)   
• MeCCSA (Media, Communications & Cultural Studies Assoc) (Member)
• ECREA (European Comms. Research & Education Assoc) (Member)
• MSA (Memory Studies Association) (Member)
• ICA (International Communication Association) (Member)

Qualifications

2021

PhD Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University

2016

MA Global Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Stellenbosch University, and Jawaharlal-Nehru University

2013

BA Political Science, Universität Hamburg and Linnaeus University

Recent conferences

2025

• Mediating Postcolonial Memory - MSA, Prague

2024

• Right-wing Influencers, Islamophobia, and the British Asian Diaspora: Understanding the 2022 Leicester Riots - MeCCSA, Manchester

2023

• Diasporic Worldmaking: Transatlantic Muslim Production Networks, Streaming Video and Algorithms - MeCCSA, Glasgow
• Heroines and Divisions: Muslim and Hindu British Bangladeshi women remembering the longue durée of Partition - MSA, Newcastle

2022

• Diversity on-site: Negotiating co-creation and experiences of differences in community-based learning - ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference, Göttingen

2021

• Women, Media Work, and the British Home: Curating New Ethnicities in a Digital Era - IAMCR, remote
• Moving Pasts: Vernacular dance as a vehicle for embodied memories among the female Bangladeshi diaspora in Tower Hamlets, London - Memories in Transit. Transnational Memory and Identity across modern Regimes of Displacement and Dispersion, Workshop of Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, Cambridge

2020

• “You should join our WhatsApp group”: Re-imagining the diasporic, female body through participatory digital practices - Area Studies, Digital Media Practices and New Research Approaches, Workshop at Freie Universität, Berlin

Recent publications

BOOKS

Giese J (2026). Kulturelle Erinnerung und bengalische Lebenswelten in Großbritannien. Zürich: Springer Nature.

Giese J (2024). Embodied Memory and Bengali Identities in Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

McMahon, D., Posada Álvarez, V., & Giese, J. (2026). Voices across the airwaves: Gendered memories of sports radio in the Irish diaspora. Media, Culture & Society, 0(0).

Punathambekar, A., Giese, J., Bisht, D., & Gill, S. (2025). Streaming video and diasporic worldmaking: Race, ethnicity, and religion in the Anglophone West. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0).

Giese, J., & Clini, C. (2025). A Politics of One’s Own: Leisure, Belonging and Momentary Self-Exclusion among British Bangladeshi Women in East London. Sociology, 0(0). 

Giese J, Bisht D and Punathambekar A (2023). Public service media and race relations in postcolonial Britain: BBC and immigrant programming, 1965–1988. Media, Culture & Society, p.01634437231155563.

Punathambekar A, Giese J and Bisht D (2022). Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora. International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Giese, J & Keightley, E (2022). Dancing through time: A methodological exploration of embodied memories. Memory Studies, 17(2), 444-457.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Fateh Irani T, Giese J and Raithatha K (2021): “The next time I put clothes in the washing machine, I’m going to think of it as dance.” In: Bodies of Knowledge. Three Conversations on Movement, Communication and Identity. London: Live Art Development Agency.