University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor of Digital Communication and Globalisation
Head, International Digital Policy Lab
Head, Media and Communications Program
Personal pageIngrid Volkmer is a leading researcher on transnational communication, media and health, global risks and journalism, and youth communication. She currently directs the Global Youth Survey for the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 'Social Media & COVID-19 - a Global Study of Digital Crisis Interaction among Gen Z and Millenials.' In 2020, she has also created a large international research network, the
Global Risk Journalism Hub, that includes a transnational research network of eighty leading journalism scholars of 30+ countries, as well as media and public institutions.
Professor Volkmer held visiting positions at the London School of Economics, Harvard, MIT, University of Vienna, and the University of Amsterdam. She was engaged in digital policy debates at the OECD in 2018 and was appointed to the OECD's expert panel on AI governance in 2019 and to the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) as a Lead Author in transnational digital communication. The role of the latter panel is to develop policy frameworks for governments worldwide to tackle the major social challenges of the 21st Century.
Among her recent publications are the book
Risk Journalism between Transnational Politics and Climate Change (co-authored with Kasim Sharif) (Palgrave, New York, 2018) and the chapter
The Transnationalization of Public Sphere and Global Policy in the Oxford Handbook on Global Policy and Transnational Administration (Oxford University Press, 2019).