Media and Journalism Research Staff
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Dr Yemisi Akinbobola
Senior Lecturer
Yemisi holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from 探花直播. She is a senior lecturer and Research Degrees Coordinator for the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research . Her research interests are in African Feminism(s) and media in Africa, particularly the intersections of Women's Rights and...
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Dr Simon Barber
Research Fellow
Dr Simon Barber researches, writes and lectures about popular music, the music industries, digital culture and jazz. As a member of the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Simon is particularly interested in the study of songwriting, and relationships between creative workers and industry. He convenes the...
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Dr Hocine Bougdah
Director of Technical Studies and Sustainability
Dr Hocine Bougdah has an academic and industrial career that extends over 31 years. He recently joined the University聽as a Director for Technical Studies and Sustainability. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster, London and a research/educational...
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Dr Oliver Carter
Professor in Creative Economies
Oliver Carter is a Professor in Creative Economies at the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research, 探花直播. His research focuses on alternative economies of cultural production; informal forms of industry that are often removed from a formal cultural industries discourse. His research into...
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Dr Rachel-Ann Charles
Course Director & Lecturer
Rachel-Ann is a Course Director on the MA in Global Media Management and she lectures across undergraduate Media courses. She is also a Researcher at the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR), 探花直播 (BCU) and has made contributions to the study of social action community media within a...
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Dr Sam Coley
Associate Professor, College Academic Lead for Distance & Transnational Education Course Leader MA Media Production
Sam Coley is the College Academic Lead for Distance and Transnational Education at the 探花直播 College of English and Media. He is also Award Leader for the MA Media Production and teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate audio production modules. Coley is a member of the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural...
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Dr. Hazel Collie
Course Leader - Media and Communication
Hazel Collie completed her PhD 鈥淭elevision for Women: Generation, Gender and the Everyday鈥� at De Montfort University in 2014. Her doctoral research was undertaken as part of the AHRC funded project 鈥淎 History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-1989鈥�. Hazel鈥檚 PhD thesis considered the role of television in the lives of...
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Dr Gemma Commane
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, MA Cultural Studies
Dr Gemma Commane 聽 is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications. Broadly the areas of her expertise span the fields of media and cultural studies and gender and sexuality. Her research interests focus on contemporary cultural studies, gender and sexuality, queer studies, sexual economies and entrepreneurship, dangerous...
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Dr Pedro Cravinho
Keeper of Archives, Senior Research Fellow in Jazz Studies
Dr Pedro Cravinho is a researcher and educator with a background as a professional musician, a BMus in Musicology, and a PhD in Ethnomusicology. He is the Keeper of the Archives at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media and a Senior Research Fellow in Jazz Studies, co-leading the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research...
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Dr Asya Draganova
Lecturer in Media and Communication
Dr Asya Draganova is a Lecturer in Media and Popular Music Culture and a researcher co-leading the Popular Music Research Cluster based at the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research . Asya is the Course Director for MA Media and Cultural Studies and teaches across all MA programmes at the School of Media within the...