Zaharom Nain is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). His research interests are in the sociology of communications and the political economy of the media.
Internationally, he is the recipient of two Fulbright professorships - as a Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Diego in 1998-99, and as a Senior Scholar-in-Residence at Johnson State College, Vermont, in 2009. In 1995, he was granted a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar award and was based in Sophia University, Tokyo. He is currently on the International Advisory Board of the Bangkok-based Asia Centre.
Nationally, he is the current Chair of the Malaysian Academic Movement (GERAK) and was Vice President of the Malaysian Social Science Association (PSSM).
He has published more than 150 articles in books, journals, and magazines, authored Rhetoric and Realities: Critical Reflections on Malaysian Politics, Culture and Education (2013: Gerakbudaya), and co-edited Who Owns The Media? Global Trends and Local Resistance. (2004: (WACC/Zed) and Communication and Development: The Freirean Connection. (2001: Hampton).
He is the country author and researcher for two ongoing major international projects, the Reuter’s Institute-Oxford University annual Digital News Report and the University of Gothenburg Varieties of Democracy (VDem) Project.
