Dr Andy Mullen

Assistant Professor

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Andy Mullen Andy joined Northumbria in 2005 having worked for 10 years in various gay and lesbian community organisations. Andy has a PhD from the University of Bradford, where he researched the response of the British Left to European integration.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research interests encompass:

1. European integration; political economy of European integration; response of the left and trade union movement to European integration

2. Media and communication; the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model; propaganda; political communication; new political communication technologies

3. British and American foreign policy in the post-1945 period

I have my own website at www.andymullen.info

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
The Council on Foreign Relations’ Grand Area Plan for America’s Post-1945 Hegemony and the Silence of Political Science, Mullen, A. 2 Sep 2025, In: New Political Science
Media performance in the ‘age of austerity’: British newspaper coverage of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, 2008–2010, Mullen, A. 1 Apr 2021, In: Journalism
The 2008 Financial Crisis, the Great Recession and Austerity in Britain: Analysing Media Coverage Using the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model, Mullen, A. 2018, The Propaganda Model Today, London, University of Westminster Press
Election Strategies, Campaign Themes and Target Voters, Mullen, A. 2016, Political Marketing and the 2015 UK General Election, Palgrave Macmillan
Revisiting the European social model(s) debate: challenges and prospects, Whyman, P., Baimbridge, M., Mullen, A. 2014, In: L'Europe en Formation
Selling politics- the political economy of political advertising, Mullen, A. 2013, Advertising as Culture, Bristol, Intellect
The political economy of the European social model, Whyman, P., Baimbridge, M., Mullen, A. 2012
Reclaiming Sovereignty: The Progressive Case, Mullen, A. 30 Jun 2011, Britain in a Global World: Options for a New Beginning, Charlottesville, VA, USA, Imprint Academic
Bringing power back in: the Herman–Chomsky propaganda model, 1988–2008, Mullen, A. 2010, The Political Economy of Media and Power, New York, Peter Lang
The Herman-Chomsky propaganda model: a critical approach to analysing mass media behaviour, Mullen, A., Klaehn, J. Apr 2010, In: Sociology Compass