Lidia Pedro Sole

Lidia is a video journalist, producer and researcher with reporting experience across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa. Her work bridges professional journalism practice with academic research, focusing on how gender, conflict and global perspectives shape both the production and reception of news.

At the University of Brighton, she lectures in journalism and develops practice-based research that explores video as a tool for storytelling, public engagement, and knowledge production. She is particularly interested in the intersections of gender, race and professional identity in journalism, as well as the methodological challenges of combining creative practice with academic analysis.

• Video journalism and visual storytelling
• Gender, race and journalism
• Conflict, war and peace journalism
• Professional identity and newsroom cultures
• Practice-based research and documentary film

Her teaching philosophy advocates for an experience-based learning model in which students actively participate in and undertake hands-on projects that reflect the challenges and opportunities of the evolving journalism landscape. 

She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in journalism and media.

Prospective students are encouraged to contact her with a short outline of their project ideas. Areas she is interested in supervising are:

• Journalism studies with a focus on gender, race and professional identity
• Practice-based projects in video and documentary film
• Media's framing of conflicts
• Digital storytelling
• Journalists and newsrooms practices