Feminism (especially Black feminism); critical race studies; postcolonial theory; psychoanalysis; phenomenology.
Professor Sara Ahmed

Chinese cinema and television; Chinese independent video documentary; Chinese new media and computer-mediated communication; Korean cinema; queer Asian cinemas.
Professor Chris Berry

Critical psychology and its intersection with media and cultural studies; embodiment and experience; discourse and subjectivity; mental health and the media; the ‘psy complex’; the cultural production of psychopathology.
Dr Lisa Blackman

Media rituals and anthropological approaches to media; reality TV, celebrity and fandom; media and democracy; alternative and community media; media ethics; the intersection between media and surveillance; social and cultural theory; the methodology and history of cultural studies.
Professor Nick Couldry

Radio and journalism practice; propaganda and information under war conditions; international media law and ethics; practice and history of radio drama; prose/scriptwriting for stage, film and television.
Tim Crook

The political economy of the media; the influence of the media; media history and theory.
Professor James Curran

Public relations, politics and political communications; promotional culture; media sociology and news production; economic sociology and financial markets.
Dr Aeron Davis

Media convergence and divergence; multi-media fertilisation; film and television music; Arab cinemas.
Dr Kay Dickinson

Screen documentary; the video diary form and autobiographical documentary; ‘alternative media’; practice research in the moving image.
Tony Dowmunt

‘Alternative media’; civil society and resistance; symbolic contestation of global capital; the global public sphere; feminist theory; media and cultural studies.
Dr Natalie Fenton

Transnationalism; ICT-media ownership and control; NGOs, ICTs, and multilateralism; internet governance; ‘digital divide’ and north-south hierarchies; postcoloniality, power, and world order; practices of everyday life online; (cyber)spatiality and cultures of use; critical/feminist theories of human-machine relations; cultural reproduction (music, film, visual arts).
Dr Marianne Franklin

Media and communications policy; political and economic contexts of policymaking; the relationship between media and power; theories of media transformation; the ‘new media revolution’.
Dr Des Freedman

Media and the political process; the UK political communication process; television news; media and NGOs; public service broadcasting in the UK.
Professor Ivor Gaber

Cultures of cinema; film policy, marketing and circuits of distribution; digital film production and aesthetics.
Dr Janet Harbord

Film making; script writing; street cultures; music and technology; reggae and dancehall style in Jamaica and the UK.
Julian Henriques

Fiction (screen, radio and prose). Currently researching media practice in developing countries.
Judy Holland