Saira Ali

Saira Ali has over ten years of experience in the media industry, having worked at the top tiers of publishing with Kitab Pvt Ltd and the Oxford University Press in Pakistan. She started her academic career in 2015 at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), where she taught in various Public Relations and Social Media courses. She joined the Department of Media at the University of Adelaide in 2019. Her current research focuses on securitization and the media-terrorism nexus.

In 2022 her book Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk was published in the Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies series. Saira also co-authored, Public Relations & Strategic Communication (2019), for Oxford University Press, Australia. She regularly publishes in high ranking journals such as Global Media and Communication, International Communication Gazette and Media International Australia.