Dr Ruth Garland

Article

• No escape from the No.10. bunker? UK government news management under siege: John Major (1990-97) and Boris Johnson (2019-2022) Garland, Ruth. 2024. No escape from the No.10. bunker? UK government news management under siege: John Major (1990-97) and Boris Johnson (2019-2022). Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 29(1), pp. 24-37. ISSN 1356-3289
• The unseen power of creative news management in government: The marginalisation of UK Government press officers between 1997 and 2015 Garland, Ruth. 2018. The unseen power of creative news management in government: The marginalisation of UK Government press officers between 1997 and 2015. Journal of Communication Management, 22(4), pp. 416-431. ISSN 1363-254X
• Is post-truth another word for political spin or a radical departure from it? Evidence from behind the scenes in UK government communications: 1997–2015 Garland, Ruth. 2018. Is post-truth another word for political spin or a radical departure from it? Evidence from behind the scenes in UK government communications: 1997–2015. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 14(3), pp. 333-350. ISSN 1740-8296

Book

• Government Communications and the Crisis of Trust: From Political Spin to Post-truth Garland, Ruth. 2021. Government Communications and the Crisis of Trust: From Political Spin to Post-truth. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030775759

Book Section

• Spin Garland, Ruth. 2025. Spin. In: Alessandro Nai; Max Gromping and Dominique Wirz, eds. Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035301430
• Politics, government and the media: A site of struggle between opposing conceptions of public communication Garland, Ruth. 2025. Politics, government and the media: A site of struggle between opposing conceptions of public communication. In: Anastasios Theofilou and Martina Topic, eds. Histories of Political Public Relations: From Propaganda to Public Health. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 95-106. ISBN 9781032500911
• The Social Media Feeds of Loose Women: Taking the Temperature of Popular Feminism Garland, Ruth. 2024. The Social Media Feeds of Loose Women: Taking the Temperature of Popular Feminism. In: Barbara Mitra; Sharon Young and Mehreen Mirza, eds. Gender in the Digital Sphere: Representation, Engagement and Expression. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538155684

Professional Activity

• Written evidence submitted by the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London Written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs in response to call for evidence for the Inquiry into Civil Service Leadership and Reform Garland, Ruth. 2023. Written evidence submitted by the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London Written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs in response to call for evidence for the Inquiry into Civil Service Leadership and Reform.