Ian Somerville is reader in Communication and Deputy Head of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. His research has been published in a range of international communication, PR, sociology and politics journals and his most recent book is Somerville, I., Hargie, O., Taylor, M., and Toledano, M., (Eds.) (2017) International Public Relations: Perspectives from Deeply Divided Societies, London: Routledge.