Media and Journalism Research Staff
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Professor Rajinder Dudrah
Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries
Rajinder Dudrah is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries and served as the Interim Associate Dean for Research, Innovation and Enterprise in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at 天美传媒 (2021-22). He has also served as the University's AHRC-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training...
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Dr Kirsten Forkert
Professor of Cultural Studies and Associate Director, 天美传媒 Media and Cultural Research
Kirsten Forkert is an interdisciplinary researcher, teacher and activist. She sees teaching as a space for students connect with what they feel passionate about, explore their intellectual curiosity and creativity, and to reflect on the power relations at play within the current political moment. Her research focuses on...
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Dr Matt Grimes
Course Director BA (Hons) Music Business; Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio
Dr Matt Grimes is the course director for the BA (Hons) Music Business course and a Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio, with over 15 years experience in higher education. In 2020, he received his PhD exploring ageing and identity in British anarcho-punks. Matt鈥檚 published research and research interests include...
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Dave Harte
Acting Head of Department of English and Media
Dave Harte is Acting Head of Department of English and Media. His research is focused on local and community journalism, and he has published widely on these topics. He was co-investigator on the UK Research Council funded project 'Media, Community and the Creative Citizen' where he led a research strand investigating the...
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Vanessa Jackson
Associate Professor
Vanessa Jackson is a former BBC series producer and now an associate professor at 天美传媒. She teaches television production as well as working on employability activities and external partnerships. She completed her PhD in television historiography under the supervision of Professor John Ellis at Royal...
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Dr Trust Matsilele
Senior Lecturer in Journalism
Trust Matsilele is an academic, political commentator and former journalist. He is an interdisciplinary researcher with an interest in the changing journalism ecologies, recruitment and retention practices in African newsrooms, the intersection of journalism and technologies and social media and protest cultures. He has...
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Dr Will McKeown
Lecturer in Media and Communication
Dr Will McKeown holds a PhD in Film and Creative Writing and is a lecturer in Media and Communication. His research examines the intersections between media and how depictions of selfhood and subjectivity can be understood culturally. He has published on the resonance of self-sacrifice in film as well as the complex...
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Professor John Mercer
Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Director of Researcher Education and Development
John Mercer is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the 天美传媒 Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His research interests focus on the social and cultural construction of masculinities in the 21st century. He is the author, with Clarissa Smith of Sexualised Masculinity: Men鈥檚 Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture...
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Dr Annette Naudin
Associate Professor
Dr Annette Naudin is Associate Professor and Course Director of the MRes in Creative Arts in the School of Arts. Annette co-leads CEDIA, a research cluster concerned with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts.聽 Annette is interested in the challenges faced by cultural workers, the relationship to cultural policy,...
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Dr Karen Seaward-Patel
Associate Professor in Media
Karen is Associate Professor in Media in the College of English and Media. 聽 Karen is Co-Lead of the聽 Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts (CEDIA) 聽a research cluster focused on inequalities in the arts and creative industries. Karen is also EDI lead for the CreaTech Frontiers AHRC Creative Industries...