EKAIN ROJO LABAIEN

Knowledge area

Audio-visual Communications and Advertising

Department

Audio Visual Communications and Advertising

Centre

Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences

Electronic mail

ekain.rojo@ehu.eus

He has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the UPV/EHU (2005), and holds a PhD as well from the UPV/EHU (2013). He has been a teacher at the UPV/EHU since the academic year 2016-2017. He teaches subjects related to the analysis of mass communication and culture at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication (in Basque, in Spanish, in English and in French).

In the 2022 evaluation process, he was awarded the Research Six-Year Period for the years 2016–2021. Additionally, he attained the Docentiaz Accreditation in 2022 (a teaching-related scholarly award), corresponding to the academic years 2016/2017–2020/2021.

He is a member of the NOR Research Group whose research areas focus on collective identities and media studies. In this line, his specific research areas are linked to the following three lines of action: State and national identities, the media sport event and mass communication.

He has completed three long international research stays. In Aix en Provence (France) in 2011 at the Maison Méditerranéene des Sciences de l'Homme; in Liverpool (UK) in 2014 at the Management School of the Liverpool University; and in Baku (Azerbaijan) in 2015-2016 at the Qafqaz University. The latter was funded by the Erasmus Backis post doctoral grant of the European Commision. He is the author of several academic publications in internationally prestigious journals and books, as well as in Euskara. He has also participated in international and local conferences.