About

I am a PhD student and Wolfson Scholar whose work focuses on approaches to presidential televisual image projection in the French Fifth Republic, 1995-2017, from candidacy to post-presidency. This project is supervised by Professor Jeremy Ahearne and Dr Jessica Wardhaugh.

Research

My research focuses on how politicians instrumentalised the media landscape in order to construct or maintain a certain image in the public eye, as well as how said image affected their general policy-making in order to intimately understand the relationship constructed between French politicians and the people, as well as the media industry’s own agency in the facilitation, hindering, and even reshaping of said relationship. As a former WIHEA Fellow, I also take an interest in aspects of co-creation between staff and students, and in my work with WIHEA and the LDCU, have sought to champion student voice.

Research Interests

French presidents and the media; French politics; theories of political leadership; performance theories; co-creation; student voice

Conferences and Presentations

SMLC PG Symposium: Knots, May 2024. Co-organiser and presented the paper 'Untying the Sarkozyian Knot: How I approached the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012)'

AMSCF and SSFH PG Study Day, March 2024, 'Representing the Nation, gone wrong? The case of Jacques Chirac'

Everyday Excellence Conference, May 2021

British Conference of Undergraduate Research, April 2021, ‘“The Chirac Paradox”: Contrasting the media image of Jacques Chirac during his presidency (1995-2007) and after his death (2019)’

LDCU Open Discussion, March 2021

Extended Classroom TEL Forum, February 2021

Warwick Education Conference, May 2019, ‘Students as True Partners’. Joint presentation.

Scholarships and Awards

Society for the Study of French History Postgraduate Research Grant, 2024

Society for French Studies, Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant, 2024

Wolfson Scholar, 2022-2025

WIHEA Student Fellow, 2021-2022

Publications

Adam Agowun, Book review of Alexis Lévrier's 'Jupiter et Mercure: le pouvoir présidentiel face à la presse', French History, 37.4 (2023), pp. 487-488 <https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crad057>.

Qualifications

BA English and French, University of Warwick

MA for Research in French and Francophone Studies, University of Warwick