Speakers

Prof. Matthew Hibberd

Head of "Communications, Media and Culture" Division, University of Stirling

Matthew Hibberd is Professor of Communications and Head of the "Communications, Media and Culture" Division at the University of Stirling. He is also Professor of International Communications at the LUISS University, Italy's top political science university (since 2008), and Invited Professor of Journalism at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Communications (CICS), Pontifical Gregorian University (since 2005).

Matthew is Fellow of the College of Teachers (FCollT) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).

In 2008-2013, he was the Scottish Director and Trustee of Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV). In 2013 he was appointed an advisor to Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology, where he specialised in providing guidance on science and innovation in schools.

Matthew has teaching responsibilities on Master-level programmes and with supervising PhD students. He is director and co-founder of the MSc in Media and Communications Management (Vietnam) project introduced in October 2008. The project was funded by the Prime Minister's Initiative for International Education 2 scheme (PMI2) and run in cooperation with Danang University, College of Economics (DUE)and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, HCMC (USSH). It has been used by the British Council as a key case study of good practice for British and Vietnamese cooperation in higher education.

Matthew acted as Italian Government Long-Term Scholar at the University of Bologna in 1994-1995 and recently he has been invited to give guest lectures to a number of African, American, Asian and European universities and institutions.

He has given a number of keynotes and was awarded as the "2008 Best International Business Communications Trainer" by the Public Relations Council of India and also as the "2009 Global Business Communicator" by the Association of Business Communicators in India.

Head of "Communications, Media and Culture" Division, University of Stirling