Film, Media and Cultural Studies
To contact any of the Film, Media and Cultural Studies experts below please speak to the University of Sunderland press office in the first instance: 0191 515 3276 or 0191 515 3265 / pressoffice@sunderland.ac.uk
| Name | Vicky Ball |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies |
| Faculty | Art, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Feminist media studies, gender representation, postfeminist media culture, British television drama |
| Name | David Banks |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Journalism and PR |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Media law - libel, slander, contempt of court, reporting restrictions, reporting child offenders, reporting sex offences, reporting inquests, reporting crime, data protection, privacy, confidentiality, official secrets, freedom of information, malicious falsehood, copyright, law and photography, election law, broadcast law, media regulation, Scots media law. |
| Name | Dr Stephen Cannon |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Film |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | French film maker Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave, French cinema and May 1968, French cinema from the 1960s to the present, hip hop/rap music in France, contemporary Spanish cinema |
| Name | Dr Andrew Crisell |
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| Job title | Professor of Broadcasting Studies |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | History of the mass media, broadcasting, contemporary radio and television, relationship between 'old' and 'media' - especially that between radio and new media technologies such as mobile communications and the Internet |
| Name | Professor Beryl Graham |
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| Job title | Professor in Fine Art |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Curating new media art, interactive, participative and collaborative artworks across the contemporary visual arts |
| Name | John Paul Green |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | British science fiction television (specifically Doctor Who), James Bond, Horror and science fiction cinema, British broadcasting history, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, popular British fictional heroes. |
| Name | Ben Livings |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Criminal legal theory, evidence, sports law and law on film |
| Name | Alex Lockwood |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Journalism |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Climate change in relation to media (NOT science), magazines, content publishing, literary journalism, emotion and Media |
| Name | Neil Perryman |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in TV and Video |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Media convergence, transmedia storytelling, science-fiction television, Dr Who, future of television production |
| Name | Alistair Robinson |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Journalism |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | The history of the Press, newspaper English, media ethics, arts and entertainments journalism |
| Name | Chris Rushton |
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| Job title | Head of Journalism & Public Relations |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Journalism, public relations, media ethics, media business models |
| Name | Dr Amir Saeed |
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| Job title | Programme Leader Media, Culture and Communication |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | 'Race' racism, Civil Rights movement, Islam, sport and celebrity, popular music, lying/propaganda in the media (public relations) |
| Name | Professor John Storey |
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| Job title | Professor Media - Film + Cultural |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Cultural theory, cultural history |
| Name | Gary Stubbs |
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| Job title | Media Project Manager |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Digital media production, digital post production, 3D cinema, 3D television production |
| Name | Graeme Thompson |
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| Job title | Dean |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Media, journalism, theatre and the creative industries |
