Academic biography

Debbie Ging is Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications and Director of the Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities. She teaches and researches on gender, sexuality and digital media, with a focus on digital hate, online anti-feminist men's rights politics, the incel subculture and radicalisation of boys and men into male supremacist ideologies. Her research also addresses youth experiences of gender-based and sexual abuse online and educational interventions to tackle this issue. Debbie is Ireland Corresponding Editor of the journal Men and Masculinities and is a member of the Editorial Boards of New Media and Society and Feminist Media Studies. 

PhDs currently supervising:

- Rodica Alliman (with Iker Erdocia): The French and Romanian Far Right on You Tube: a Comparative Multimodal Analysis - Pragyaa Chandel (with Colleen Murrell): Women journalists and online abuse and harassment: psycho-emotional toll and its repercussions on journalism in India - Benjamin Foley: Improving Digital Sexual Literacy in LGBTQ+ Youth  - Deniz Celikoglu: Parents’ experiences of their children’s involvement in the manosphere - Nhung Dinh (with Dón