Dr Ruth Garland

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Publications and research outputs

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

How the UK government 'turned on a sixpence' to change its story: A discourse analysis of the No.10 daily news conferences Garland, Ruth. 2021. How the UK government 'turned on a sixpence' to change its story: A discourse analysis of the No.10 daily news conferences. In: Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher, eds. Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic Framing Public Discourse. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 206-219. ISBN 9780367706302
From Consensus to Dissensus: The UK's Management of a Pandemic in a Divided Nation Garland, Ruth and Lilleker, Darren. 2021. From Consensus to Dissensus: The UK's Management of a Pandemic in a Divided Nation. In: Peter Van Aelst and Jay G. Blumler, eds. Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus. New York: Routledge, pp. 17-32. ISBN 9780367771577
The UK: From Consensus to Confusion Garland, Ruth and Lilleker, Darren. 2021. The UK: From Consensus to Confusion. In: Darren Lilleker; Iona A. Coman; Milos Gregor and Edoardo Novelli, eds. Political Communication and COVID-19: Governance and Rhetoric in Times of Crisis. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 165-176. ISBN 9780367636838
Anticipating the age of political spin: an historical analysis of 1980s government communications Garland, Ruth. 2019. Anticipating the age of political spin: an historical analysis of 1980s government communications. In: Ian Somerville; Lee Edwards and Øyvind Ihlen, eds. Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 159-172. ISBN 9781138317109
The dynamics of resistance and response to mediatization in government: perceptions of Whitehall press officers caught in the 'cross-field' since 1997. Garland, Ruth. 2017. The dynamics of resistance and response to mediatization in government: perceptions of Whitehall press officers caught in the 'cross-field' since 1997. In: Olivier Driessens; Göran Bolin; Andreas Hepp and Stig Hjarvard, eds. The Dynamics of Mediatization: Institutional Change and Everyday Transformations in a Digital Age. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155-175. ISBN 9783319629827

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.