Sarah Lonsdale

Dr Sarah Lonsdale is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the Department of Journalism, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City St George's, University of London. She joined the university in 2013 and holds a PhD from the University of Kent, an MA and BA from the University of Cambridge, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. She teaches on the BA Journalism program and supervises PhD research.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in 'The Representation of Journalists and the Newspaper Press in British Literature 1900 - 1939', University of Kent (2013)
• MA in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Italian), University of Cambridge (1987)
• BA (Hons) in Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
• PGCHE, University of Kent (2010)

Dr Lonsdale's research centers on the history of journalism, particularly from 1880 to 1920, the intersection between journalism and literature, the portrayal of journalists in film and novels, and environmental journalism with a focus on climate change. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and academic books.

Her recent publications reflect a strong trend in historical media analysis, especially concerning gender and journalism, British literary journalism, and food media during wartime. She frequently contributes book reviews to outlets like Social History and TLS, often focusing on war correspondents, mid-century literature, and media history.

• Book Review: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial (2024)
• The ‘awkward’ squad: British women foreign correspondents during the interwar years (2022)
• Patriotic Hens, Tomato Turbans and Mock Fish (2023)

She currently supervises a PhD student researching climate change coverage since the Copenhagen Summit and welcomes postgraduate students in environmental journalism and journalism-literature intersections. Though no formal grants are listed, her sustained publication record and book contracts with academic presses indicate active research support.

Dr Lonsdale is also the author of several academic books:

• The Journalist in British Fiction and Film: Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2016)
• Rebel Women Between the Wars: Fearless Writers and Adventurers (Manchester UP, 2020)
• Wildly Different: how five women reclaimed nature in a man's world (forthcoming, Manchester UP, 2025)

She previously worked as a journalist for over thirty years, contributing to major UK publications including the Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, and Sunday Times, and was a weekly environmental columnist for the Sunday Telegraph from 2006 to 2014.