Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media and Head of Department, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is internationally known for her work on the social, economic, and political issues arising from new technologies, especially information and communication technologies.
Her work examines the integration of new technologies into society and the sources of regulatory effectiveness and failure. She is a leading contributor to policy debates on the potential of and risks associated with new media; the challenges presented by global inequality and the role of the media and communication; and the need to develop new forms of media literacy.
She is an academic governor of the London School of Economics, a trustee of the Institute of Development Studies Sussex, Honorary Professor at Witwatersrand University and Sussex University, and President of IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communications Research), a worldwide professional association for academics in this field. Her many publications include The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press 2007), Trust and Crime in Information Societies (Elgar 2005) and Mobilizing the Information Society (Oxford 2000).
A Canadian, trained in social psychology and political economy, she received her PhD from Simon Fraser University, Canada and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics. Before joining the London School of Economics in 2001, she worked at the OECD and the Science, Technology and Policy Research Unit (SPRU) University of Sussex. She has served as a consultant to a range of UN agencies, OECD, ministries of governments and leading companies, and is a Board member of research institutes based in Austria, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay.