Dr Aidan O'Donnell
Lecturer Data Journalism (Teaching and Scholarship)
- odonnella4@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 208 76048
- 2.68, Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I teach data journalism at Jomec to undergraduate, MA and MSc students and I'm a course co-director for our MSc in Computational and Data Journalism.
I've worked as a journalist in broadcast and online and I've reported on Africa and France for major media and as a freelancer. I've been teaching numeracy in journalism for several years at undergraduate and postgraduate level and my job generally is to make data analysis a standard tool for journalists.
I used to teach at Middlesex University and Université Paris 8 and I've run journalism workshops at LUISS (Rome) and the IPJ (Paris).
Biography
Career
- 2007 — 2021 Freelance Journalist
- 2016 — 2018 News Editor. RFI, Paris
- 2012 — 2016 Journalist & producer. BBC, London
- 2007 — 2012 Journalist & Output Editor. RFI, Paris
Qualifications
- HEA Fellow, 2019
- PGCert HE, Middlesex University, 2015
- PhD, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2010
- Maîtrise & DEA, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2003
- BA, BMus, University College Dublin, 1998
Publications
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Current courses
- Data Journalism (MSc, MA)
- Data Journalism in Theory & Practice (BA)
- Digital Investigation (MSc)
- Introduction to OSINT (MSc, MA)
Course co-director
General
I've run data journalism workshops for journalists in Cardiff, and I've given overview talks for the general public at the university's summer school.
Supervision
I am interested in supervising reseach in the following areas:
- Data journalism
- Mapping and visualisation in journalism
- Digital humanities
Past projects
Previous masters-level work I have supervised includes:
- A machine-learning model for sentiment analysis of British football reports
- Visual journalism and coverage of the 2020 US election