People in the School of MCCS
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Staff list
Dr Daisy Asquith
Documentary Film, Television, Representation, Intersectionalities
Dr Sarah Beck
My research explores the relationship between performance and social justice
Laura Belinky
Laura is a documentary lecturer and consultant
Ceiren Bell
A graduate from our BA Media and Communications, Ceiren is a freelance animator and convenes our Integrated Degree.
Ben Gilbert
Ben’s journalism spans news for local and national newspapers and pop culture features for magazines and digital titles.
Dr Josephine Berry
Josephine has interests in the creative economy and the relationship between creativity, life and power.
Professor Lisa Blackman
Lisa works at the intersection of body studies, media and cultural theory, particularly subjectivity and embodiment.
Arnold Borgerth-Filho
Since 1980, Arnold has been working in three different areas of photography and teaches on the image and electronic arts.
Dr Clea Bourne
Clea explores economies and market practices at the cross-section of media, cultural and market studies.
Dr Ergin Bulut
Ergin researches the politics of work in cultural industries and affective dimensions of neoliberal-authoritarianism.
Dr James Burton
James examines areas of cultural theory, science fiction, post-humanism, ecology and theories of fiction.
Dr Jason Vincent A. Cabañes
Jason researches the transnationality of media and multiculturalism as well as of global South digital media cultures
Dr Sarah Cefai
Dr Sarah Cefai specialises in affect studies vis-à-vis the critical and social epistemologies of feminism, queer theory and cultural studies.
Dr Louise Chambers
Louise researches psychology, individuals and mass media, particularly regarding gender, sexual orientation and disability.
Dr Aleena Chia
Aleena researches cultures of creativity and digital labour in game production and computational wellness.
Professor Sue Clayton
Sue is a UK feature film director, writer and composer. She has written and directed features, shorts and documentaries.
Professor Tim Crook
Tim has broad interests, from international media law and ethics to the dramaturgy of espionage and spy fiction.
Dr Laura Cuch
Professor James Curran
James’ work falls into two linked areas: media history and media political economy.
Professor Aeron Davis
His research merges elements of political communications, economic sociology, cultural economy and financialization.
Alexis Deacon
Alexis is a writer and illustrator of books for children, specialising in children’s picture books and graphic novels.
Lina Dencik
Lina researches the relationship between digital media and social change with a focus on the politics of data and AI
Dr Omega Douglas
Omega's interests include race, journalism and critical approaches to the consequences of colonialism
Professor Tony Dowmunt
Tony’s work has involved arts documentaries, alternative/community media and practice research in the moving image.
Dr Gavin Duffy
AI justice, data justice, sociology of digital technology
Ms Alice Dunseath
Alice works across diverse mediums ranging from video art and moving image to animation, live-action, and installations.
Professor Natalie Fenton
Natalie's research interrogates the relationship between media, democracy and social change.
Professor Des Freedman
Des Freedman is interested in media and power together with media policymaking, regulation and reform.
Andy Freeman
Professor Matthew Fuller
Matthew is involved in a number of projects in art, software and media ecology and has written on media theory.
Bill Gabbett
Bill’s interests include the history of mass media and media representations of the Empire and its decline.
Professor Ivor Gaber
Ivor is an Emeritus Professor of Broadcast Journalism in the Department.
Richard Gallon
Visual Designer and Coder, creating websites & digital products that focus on the User Experience & accessibility
Dr Ruth Garland
Ruth Garland's main research project is a longitudinal study of UK government communications from 1979 to date.
Dr Vana Goblot
Vana studies how culture is valued, legitimised, and practiced in contemporary media landscape.
Dr Michael N Goddard
Michael researches film, contemporary television, popular music, digital screen cultures and their multiple relations
Dr Graham Harwood
Graham's work uses art as a mode of enquiry into technical objects in fields of health, war, oceans and death.
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Professor Julian Henriques
My research and teaching are concerned with sound, technology, popular culture, affect theory and knowledge systems.
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Dr Kathryn Claire Higgins
Kat's work explores the mediated cultural politics of vulnerability, (state) violence, and contemporary feminisms.
Bruce Ingman
Bruce is a writer and illustrator of children’s literature with interests in picture books and graphic novels.
Dr Feyzi Ismail
Feyzi Ismail is interested in the links between the climate crisis, labour and protest movements
Dr Wendy Jordan
Wendy is an experienced music and media professional with particular interests in film music and music creativity.
Professor Sarah Kember
Sarah focusses on the future of publishing, digital media, smart media, feminist science and technology studies.
Dr Gholam Khiabany
Gholam studies the relationship between citizenship, political activism and media and cultural practices.
Terry Kirby
Terry Kirby is a senior lecturer in journalism and convenes the MA Journalism programme
Ms Tassia Kobylinska
Tassia is a filmmaker who has produced and directed documentaries for a range of NGOs and INGOs worldwide.
Ellie Levenson
A practising journalist and author, Ellie has written features and comment for most national newspapers, as well as consumer and business to business magazines and websites.
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Professor Jo Littler
Jo’s work analyses changing cultures of inequality across media and society.
Jacob Love
Jacob is an artist of photography, film, installation and dance, focussing on photography when encountered by bodies.
Dr Richard MacDonald
Richard is a media ethnographer who investigates infrastructure, publics and urban life.
Professor Mirca Madianou
Mirca studies the social consequences of communication technologies, infrastructures and AI in a global south context.
Angela Mcrobbie
Angela McRobbie is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Glasgow University.
Dr Akanksha Mehta
Dr Mehta is a lecturer in Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Studies and the co-director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths.
Dr Liz Moor
Liz's research examines the role of communication in economic life.
Professor David Morley
David's research spans questions of media technologies constituting the 'electronic landscapes' within which we live.
Dr Callum Sol Morrissey
Callum's research explores the intersections of identity, media, migration, and diaspora.
Dr Jacob Mukherjee
Jacob works on social movements, political cultures and social media. He convenes MA Political Communications.
Hung Nguyen
Hung specialises in digital content strategy and has worked for the BBC attracting millions of audience members.
Damian Owen-Board
Damian is an artist working in photography and video whose work engages with queerness, architecture and belonging
Professor Angela Phillips
Angela has forty years' experience as a journalist and successfully launched the local news site EastLondonLines.
Dr Marcela Pizarro Coloma
Marcela has worked as a journalist at Al Jazeera English and the AP in news and programmes around the world.
Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD
Nirmal's research is in space and politics, with respect to bodies, race and gender. She has been leading the field in creative methods, especially through curating spaces.
Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall
Rashmee is an experienced journalist who has worked on four continents, interpreting political news across cultures
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Rosalind Gill
Rosalind's work focuses on power, inequalities and the relationship between culture and subjectivity
Professor Catherine Rottenberg
Catherine's research investigates the convergence of feminism and neoliberalism as well as the politics of care
Dr Daniel Rourke
Daniel is a writer and artist researching digital materiality, media arts, and (critical) posthumanism.
Naz Sadoughi
Independent cinema, genre movies, female filmmakers and diverse voices
Malene Sheppard Skaerved
Malene Sheppard Skaerved is a writer, filmmaker, and performer.
Dr Richard Smith
Richard explores media representations of black and Asian troops within multicultural memory and commemoration processes.
Lizzy Stewart
Lizzy Stewart is an author and illustrator of both picture books for children and graphic novels for adults.
Anita Strasser
Anita is a visual sociologist, photographer and writer who has worked with many communities on creative projects.
Dr Dan Strutt
A media theorist leading practice-based research in digital motion-captured dance performance in shared virtual space
Nathaniel Tkacz
Nate's research focuses on the culture and politics of digital media, with a focus on apps, data and interfaces.
Dr Marissa Willcox
Marissa's work explores how young people engage with feminism through social media.
Victoria Williams
Victoria is a writer, script editor and literary agent representing playwrights and dramatic literary estates.
Dr Milly Williamson
Milly's interest is the relationship between the media and citizenship and the means by which groups are marginalised.
Robyn Wilson-Owen
Robyn is an author and illustrator with interests in creativity theory and the relationship between word and image.
Alison Winch
Alison looks at connections between intimacy and power in digital cultures.
Dr Thomas Zacharias
‘Race’ and racism, the production of difference and post-coloniality/diaspora identities.