Associate Professor Journalism
Deputy Dean, School of Computing and Digital Media
Biography
Dr Wendy Sloane is the Deputy Dean of the School of Computing and Digital Media, an Associate Professor in Journalism, and the course leader for BA Journalism (Hons) and BA Fashion Marketing and Journalism (Hons). She is a National Teaching Fellow, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a University Teaching Fellow, and previously was the Acting Head of Student Experience and Academic Outcomes for the School of Computing and Digital Media and the Principal Lecturer in Creative Technologies and Digital Media.
She holds the following qualifications:
- PhD by prior output 'Dictators and Democracy: Reflective Journalistic Practice in Covering Post-Soviet Russia', London Metropolitan University (2024 - 2025)
- PG Cert in Teaching and Learning (London Metropolitan University, 2012)
- MA in International Affairs (Columbia University, W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, 1987)
- BA in Political Science and Russian (Mt. Holyoke College, Massachusetts, 1985)
- Certificate in Russian Language and Literature (Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow, 1984)
- Certificate, Tampereen Normaalikoulu (Tampere, Finland, 1981)
Wendy started her career in 1988 as a reporter-researcher for Time Magazine, based in New York and then Vienna. After landing a fellowship to write for the pro-glasnost Soviet newspaper, Moscow News, she moved to Moscow and became the first American member of the Union of Soviet Journalists. She spent a total of seven years in the former Soviet Union, where she covered the coup that led to the Soviet collapse for The Associated Press before starting to write for western newspapers. As foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and the US-based Christian Science Monitor, she wrote about the war in Chechnya, civil strife in Georgia and general post-coup upheaval, and travelled throughout much of what became the former USSR.
In 1995 Wendy left Moscow for London, working on the foreign desk of The Daily Telegraph before making a documentary about Utah polygamists for Channel 4. After selling the polygamy story to Marie Claire magazine, she went on to become its deputy features editor, then deputy editor of Eva Magazine and finally deputy editor of Woman’s Own, before going freelance.
In recent years she has written for websites as well as mainstream publications ranging from The Sunday Times and The London Economic to The Independent and The Sunday Mirror and the British Journalism Review (BJR). on topics ranging from business to bunions to Britain’s biggest breasts. She is currently on the Editorial Board of the BJR.
Wendy joined London Met in 2010, bringing with her extensive experience of working in virtually every print medium. This includes particular emphasis on writing for different audiences in different styles, magazine writing and online journalism, and developing freelance survival skills to adapt to an ever-changing journalistic landscape.
In 2018, she started up the London Met Journalism Diversity Network, to give students more access to work placements in the competitive market. She also helped establish the Gender and Sexual Diversity Research Group, which was recognised by Stonewall for fostering an intersectional research culture - an approach she continued to embed in mentoring and curriculum leadership. She also presents papers and workshops, does media training and practices her (excellent) Russian and (relatively poor) Finnish on unsuspecting students.
Publications
- Opening doors: widening participation and the real measure of success' published in London Higher blog, February 2026
- Book Review: 'Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies' to be published in The Slavic Review, 2026
- Queering the Journalism Curriculum’ book chapter, to be published by Emerald Press in 2026 as part of a volume of interdisciplinary papers on queering teaching practices.
- Ensuring the Anonymity and Safety of Marginalised Trans Russians in Qualitative Research' book chapter, to be published in 2026 by Sage as part of a book about inclusive research methodologies.
- 'Putin is not a loyal leader', published in the British Journalism Review, December 2025
- 'Dictators and democracy: reflective journalistic practice in covering post-Soviet Russia.' Doctoral thesis, London Metropolitan University. June 2025
- 'Queering the Curriculum’, published in the SEDA blog, November 2024
- 'Singling out the women’, published in British Journalism Review, December 2023
- Book Review: ‘Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin’ published in Applied Journalism and Media Studies, September 2023
- Where Russians go for the news’, published in British Journalism Review, December 2022
- ‘Putin cracks down on the media’, published in British Journalism Review, September 2022
- ‘What can we know about Russia?’, published in British Journalism Review, June 2022
- ‘Opening doors with the London Met Journalism Diversity Network’, Diversity in Journalism Whitepaper, April 2020
- ‘By the pricking of my thumbs’, about haunted ghost stories in the British press, British Journalism Review, February 2020
- ‘Selling Sex to the Russians’, about Russia’s first glossy magazine, British Journalism Review, December 2019
In addition, articles have been published in the London Economic, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Express, Sunday Mirror, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press, Time Magazine, Sunday People, The Sun, Moscow Times, Independent, Daily Mail, New York Times, New York Post, Sports Illustrated, GEO Magazine, Washington Post, People Magazine, Supernanny, New Statesman, Woman's Own, I'm Still Young magazine, Practical Parenting, Recruiter magazine, Marie Claire magazine, Eva magazine, Company, entertainthekids.com, Moskovskoye Novosti, and more.
Books
- Kremlin Media Wars: Censorship and Control Since the Invasion of Ukraine (London, Routledge, 2025). Co-editor: Aleksandra Raspopina
- Anger Management: The Essential Guide (London, Need2Know Press, 2010)
