Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Geography
Staff Profile
Pavel Antonov
p.p.antonov@open.ac.uk
Research Student
Geography
Qualifications
Journalism and Mass Communications, MA, Sofia University, 1999
Environmental Sciences and Policy, MSc, Central European University / Manchester University, 1998
Profile
An activist by soul, Pavel P Antonov is a journalist and researcher exploring the interplays between global and local environmental action and new media practices. As a former news reporter, editor and television anchor, Pavel has covered the environment and politics in Central and Eastern Europe. He has edited Green Horizon, the magazine of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe and has consulted projects of the EU, UNDP/GEF, OSCE and various non-governmental organisations.
Professional affiliations
Association for Progressive Communications
BlueLink Information Network
Centre for Independent Journalism, Sofia
International Federation of Journalists
Union of Bulgarian Journalists
Research
Pavel's current PhD research engages with debates about the media framings of environment and climate change in the context of societal and political change. He seeks to understand how fast-changing patterns of media production, delivery and consumption influence the nature of public understanding and debate of environmental change within societies in transition. In the context of human geography his selected action research method involves in-depth interviews with actors from new and mainstream media, as well as content analysis of media coverage and involvement in change-related processes. Previously Pavel has researched environmental journalism and civil society dynamics in Bulgaria, the Balkans and Central Europe.
Publications
The environmental journalist in transition. Panelist presentation at the Fourth Asia-Europe Editors Roundtable. Asia-Europe Foundation and All China Journalists Association. Beijing. October 2008.
Az atomenergia megújulása Kelet-Közép-Európában [The renewal of nuclear energy in Central-Eastern Europe], with Paul Brown. Az Elemző / The Analyst. 3/2. pp.149 - 156. Budapest. Hungary. 2007.
E stands for environment: ICT tools to empower activists struggling to protect environment around the world. Association for Progressive Communications (APC) News. Online. No. 66. July 2006.
Editorials and features on environment and policy issues of Central and Eastern Europe in the context of EU accession, for Green Horizon, the quarterly magazine of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest. Available online at Green Horizon. 2004 - 2008.
Needs assessment of environmental journalism in South Eastern Europe. Working paper, with Vessela Tabakova. Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe. Available online at Regional Environmental Center. 2002
Course Development and Teaching Commitments
Pavel has frequently trained environmental journalists, civil society and state officials from Central, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. In 2001-2003 he managed the Regional Environmental Press Centre - a media support network project funded by the Stability Pact for the Balkans.
Other Interests
Pavel has helped coordinating the Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability initiative of the Association for Progressive Communications since the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, 2005. In Bulgaria he co-founded BlueLink.net, Cooperation for Voluntary Service, and Eco Club 2000 - the nature protection organisation of wind sailors.