Dr Kerry Moore

Our dear colleague and friend in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Dr Kerry Moore, died after a long battle with leukaemia on Friday 5 April 2024.

Known to many as Kezza, she was deeply loved by all of her family, friends and colleagues.

Kerry was born in Carshalton in 1978 and grew up in Sutton. She studied at the universities of Wales (BA), Sunderland (MA) and Cardiff (PhD), gaining her PhD in 2010, with a study focused on ways of challenging racism from the left. This topic defined her scholarly interests and personal commitments. Kerry joined the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University in 2006, and went on to teach modules on Media Power & Society, Media, Racism and Conflict, and Doing Media Research, always with a focus on anti-racism, anti-xenophobia and social justice.

Her research explored media and political discourses surrounding migration, racism and social injustice. She published extensively in these areas, including the co-edited book Migrations and the Media with Bernhard Gross and Terry Threadgold (2012) and a special issue of JOMEC Journal, ‘the Meaning of Migration’ (2015).

Kerry published work on European press coverage of the migration crisis in the Mediterranean, immigration politics, populism and Brexit, human rights in refugee news and constructions of racism in UK crime news. She led a collaborative project with journalists and third sector communications professionals in Wales exploring contemporary news media narratives on poverty in the English and Welsh language news media.

Kerry was a founding co-editor of JOMEC Journal and served on the editorial board of the journal Journalism and Discourse Studies. For a long time she was also Chair of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the School of Journalism, Media and Culture.

Her monograph, Reporting on poverty: news media narratives and third sector communications in Wales (2020), was the first bi-lingual book to be published by Cardiff University Press, appearing simultaneously as Adrodd ar dlodi: naratif y cyfryngau newyddion a chyfathrebiadau’r trydydd sector yng Nghymru (2020).

Kerry taught, researched, supervised and collaborated on projects that examined racism and racialised crisis discourse, asylum and migration, representations of religious and cultural difference, poverty and social injustice, and discourse theory and analysis.

Kerry was deeply loved by all around her. She was regarded as an excellent colleague and dear friend. She was fanatical about football, and played for Cyncoed Ladies FC. She leaves behind her a husband, Neil, and son, Sascha, as well as a deeply admirable body of scholarly work, and many colleagues and former students whose lives were enriched by her. She is sorely missed.

Professor Paul Bowman, School of Journalism, Media and Culture