Dr Keren Darmon BA, MA, PhD

Lecturer

Awarded a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics in 2017, with a Feminist Media Studies thesis, I lecture to undergraduates and postgraduates in Media & Communications degree programmes as well as supervising dissertations and consultancy projects at the University of Greenwich (Since 2019).  

My Research focuses on Women in PR, Marketing and Advertising from a feminist and anti-racist perspective with a particular interest in women-only professional networks.  

Following the completion of my PhD, I was a Guest Lecturer at LSE (2017-2018), Wake Forest University, London - INSTEP - (2018-2019) and Goldsmiths (2020), before joining the University of Greenwich in December 2019. 

I am a former practitioner with more than 12 years' experience in central government communications. Skilled in Media Relations, Stakeholder Engagement, Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and Corporate Communications.

Marketing and advertising

Responsibilities within the university
  • Lecturer
  • Dissertation Supervisor
  • Member of the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Board on Tackling Antisemitism

Awards

Class Teacher Award, Student-led Teaching Excellence Awards and Class Teacher Awards, 2018, for teaching in LSE100, London School of Economics and Political Science

Class Teacher Award, Student-led Teaching Excellence Awards and Class Teacher Awards, 2013, for teaching in MCLabs, London School of Economics and Political Science

Full Scholarship, for Student Excellence, 2002-2004, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

Recent publications
Academic Editorial Experience


Associate Editor, Engenderings, Gender Institute Blog, London School of Economics and Political Science (2018)

Peer Reviewer, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2016), 13:1

Guest Editor, special issue of Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA PGN on Protest in the New Media Ecology (Volume 6, Number 3, November 2013)

Publications
  • Darmon, K. (2025). Time to change the'change': stigma and support in blogs about the menopause. Gender a výzkum/Gender and Research, 25(2), 93-116.
  • Darmon, K. (2024). Women-only networking in public relations: discourse analysis of the entanglement of barriers and benefits. In Women’s Work in Public Relations (pp. 231-245). Emerald Publishing Limited.
  • Adi, A., Stoeckle, T., Kuyucu, M. A., Arzuaga-Williams, R. M., Baquerizo, G., Benecke, R., Darmon, K. ... & Young, H. (2023). The Future of PR/Comms and their Social Impact. Results of an International Delphi-Method Study (pp. 1-78). Quadriga University of Applied Sciences, Quadriga Hochschule Berlin.
  • Darmon, K. (2017). Representing SlutWalk London in mass and social media: negotiating feminist and postfeminist sensibilities (Doctoral dissertation, London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Darmon, K., Fitzpatrick, K., & Bronstein, C. (2008). Krafting the obesity message: A case study in framing and issues management. Public Relations Review, 34(4), 373-379.

Presentations

Console-ing Passions, Bournemouth University (July 2018): Looking Like a Slut: Content and visual analyses of SlutWalk London Images in Newspapers and on Blogs

MeCCSA Conference, London South Bank University (January 2018): Looking like a Slut: Content and visual analyses of mass- and social-media images of SlutWalk London

Techniques of Art and Protest, King's College London (September 2015): SlutWalk London's Contentious Visual Aesthetics: A feminist intervention?

Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels, Oxford Brookes University (June 2015): SlutWalk London: Challenging contemporary postfeminist media culture?

Rethinking Mediatisation of Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science (April 2014): Framing SlutWalk London in the New Media Ecology