Staff in MCCS

Dr Daisy Asquith

Senior Lecturer, convenor of the MA Filmmaking (Screen Documentary)
d.asquith (@gold.ac.uk)

Daisy is a documentary filmmaker with 20 years’ experience making films for the BBC, Channel 4 and the BFI.

Ms Tracy Bass

Senior Lecturer, convenor of the MA Filmmaking (Producing)
t.bass (@gold.ac.uk)

An independent producer, Tracy has won international awards and a BAFTA nomination for her film CARE.

Ceiren Bell

Lecturer, convenor of the Integrated Degree in Media and Communications
c.bell (@gold.ac.uk)

A graduate from our BA Media and Communications, Ceiren is a freelance animator and convenes our Integrated Degree.

Dr Josephine Berry

Research Lab Lecturer, MA Culture Industry
j.berry (@gold.ac.uk)

Josephine has interests in the creative economy and the relationship between creativity, life and power.

Professor Lisa Blackman

Professor in Media and Communications
l.blackman (@gold.ac.uk)

Lisa works at the intersection of body studies, media and cultural theory, particularly subjectivity and embodiment.

Arnold Borgerth-Filho

Associate Lecturer
a.borgerth.filho (@gold.ac.uk)

Since 1980, Arnold has been working in three different areas of photography and teaches on the image and electronic arts.

Dr Clea Bourne

Senior Lecturer, convenor of the MA in Promotional Media: Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing
c.bourne (@gold.ac.uk)

Clea’s main research interest is in financial markets and how they are mediated in global and local discourses.

Dr James Burton

Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Cultural History
j.burton (@gold.ac.uk)

James examines areas of cultural theory, science fiction, post-humanism, ecology and theories of fiction.

Dr Sarah Cefai

Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies
s.cefai (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Lecturer, co-convenor of the MA Gender, Media and Culture
l.chambers (@gold.ac.uk)

Louise researches psychology, individuals and mass media, particularly regarding gender, sexual orientation and disability.

Dr Aleena Chia

Lecturer
a.chia (@gold.ac.uk)

Aleena researches cultures of creativity and digital labour in game production and computational wellness.

Professor Sue Clayton

Professor of Film and Television
s.clayton (@gold.ac.uk)

Sue is a UK feature film director, writer and composer. She has written and directed features, shorts and documentaries.

Professor Tim Crook

Emeritus Professor
t.crook (@gold.ac.uk)

Tim has broad interests, from international media law and ethics to the dramaturgy of espionage and spy fiction.

Professor James Curran

Professor of Communications
j.curran (@gold.ac.uk)

James’ work falls into two linked areas: media history and media political economy.

Professor Aeron Davis

Emeritus Professor
aeron.davis (@gold.ac.uk)

His research merges elements of political communications, economic sociology, cultural economy and financialization.

Dr Omega Douglas

Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
omega.douglas (@gold.ac.uk)

Omega has over 20 years’ experience as a journalist and editor, and teaches across theory and practice courses. Her interests include race, media diversity, and the role of diasporic and transnational communities, as well as international institutions, such as NGOs, in global communications.

Professor Tony Dowmunt

Emeritus Professor
t.dowmunt (@gold.ac.uk)

Tony’s work has involved arts documentaries, alternative/community media and practice research in the moving image.

Ms Alice Dunseath

Lecturer in Animation
a.dunseath (@gold.ac.uk)

A lecturer in animation, Alice teaches electronic graphics, animation and on digital moving image.

Professor Natalie Fenton

Professor of Media and Communications, Co-Head of Department
n.fenton (@gold.ac.uk)

Natalie's research interrogates the relationship between media, democracy and social change. She works across political communications, political sociology, media studies and cultural studies.

Professor Marianne Franklin

Professor of Global Media and Politics, convenor of the MA Global Media and Politics.
m.i.franklin (@gold.ac.uk)

Critical Internet Governance studies, ICT, Gender and Development, Popular Culture, Music, and Politics

Professor Des Freedman

Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Co-Head of Department
d.freedman (@gold.ac.uk)

Des Freedman is interested in media and power together with media policymaking, regulation and reform.

Professor Matthew Fuller

Professor of Cultural Studies, convenor of the MA in Digital Media
m.fuller (@gold.ac.uk)

Matthew is involved in a number of projects in art, software and media ecology and has written on media theory.

Bill Gabbett

Associate Lecturer
b.gabbett (@gold.ac.uk)

Bill’s interests include the history of mass media and media representations of the Empire and its decline.

Professor Ivor Gaber

Emeritus Professor of Broadcast Journalism
i.gaber (@gold.ac.uk)

Ivor is an Emeritus Professor of Broadcast Journalism in the Department.

Becky Gardiner

Senior Lecturer, co-convenor of the MA in Journalism
b.gardiner (@gold.ac.uk)

Becky has been a journalist since 1990, working mainly as an editor in both print and digital media.

Dr Ruth Garland

Lecturer and Convenor, BA Promotional Media
r.garland (@gold.ac.uk)

My main research project is a longitudinal study of UK government communications from 1979 to date.

Dr Vana Goblot

Lecturer
v.goblot (@gold.ac.uk)

Vana has examined issues of television quality, cultural value and television archive in the digital, multiplatform age.

Dr Michael N Goddard

Reader in Film and Screen Media
Michael.Goddard (@gold.ac.uk)

Michael researches film, contemporary television, popular music, digital screen cultures and their multiple relations

Dr Graham Harwood

Reader in Critical Technical Practice
g.harwood (@gold.ac.uk)

Graham's work uses art as a mode of enquiry into technical objects in fields of health, war, oceans and death.

Professor Julian Henriques

Professor, convenor of the MA in Cultural Studies and the MA in Script Writing
j.henriques (@gold.ac.uk)

My research and teaching are concerned with sound, technology, popular culture, affect theory and knowledge systems.

Bruce Ingman

Convenor of the MA in Children's Literature: Children's Illustration
b.ingman (@gold.ac.uk)

Bruce is a writer and illustrator of children’s literature with interests in picture books and graphic novels.

Dr Feyzi Ismail

Lecturer in Global Policy and Activism, Co-convenor of MA Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy
f.ismail (@gold.ac.uk)

Feyzi’s research interests include social movement strategy and organising, and the links between labour, politics and global development.

Jamie McCoan

Convenor, MA Filmmaking (Editing)
j.mccoan (@gold.ac.uk)

Jamie McCoan is a professional film editor with over 25 years of experience.

Dr Wendy Jordan

Lecturer (Fractional)
w.jordan (@gold.ac.uk)

Wendy is an experienced music and media professional with particular interests in film music and music creativity.

Professor Sarah Kember

Professor of New Technologies of Communications
s.kember (@gold.ac.uk)

Sarah focusses on the future of publishing, digital media, smart media, feminist science and technology studies.

Dr Gholam Khiabany

Reader in Media and Communications
g.khiabany (@gold.ac.uk)

Gholam studies the relationship between citizenship, political activism and media and cultural practices.

Andrew Kingham

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media and Illustration, co-convenor of the BA in Media and Communications
a.kingham (@gold.ac.uk)

Andrew works across the areas of illustration, animation, interactive media, photography and graphic design.

Terry Kirby

Senior Lecturer, co-convenor of the BA in History and Journalism and co-convenor of the MA in Journalism
t.kirby (@gold.ac.uk)

After a long career in journalism, Terry co-convenes both the MA Journalism programme, on which he has taught for more than a decade and the recently launched the BA History and Journalism programme

Ms Tassia Kobylinska

Lecturer in TV, Senior Tutor
t.kobylinska (@gold.ac.uk)

Tassia is a filmmaker who has produced and directed documentaries for a range of NGOs and INGOs worldwide.

Ellie Levenson

Lecturer
e.levenson (@gold.ac.uk)

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.

Linda Lewis

Senior Lecturer, convenor of the MA in Television Journalism
linda.lewis (@gold.ac.uk)

Linda is an award-winning broadcaster has worked in TV, radio, print and online, spending over 20 years with BBC news.

Jacob Love

Lecturer
j.love (@gold.ac.uk)

Jacob is an artist of photography, film, installation and dance, focussing on photography when encountered by bodies.

Dr Richard MacDonald

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Senior Tutor
r.macdonald (@gold.ac.uk)

Richard is a media ethnographer who investigates infrastructure, publics and urban life.

Dr Mirca Madianou

Reader
m.madianou (@gold.ac.uk)

Mirca's research examines the social uses and consequences of communication technologies in a transnational context.

Gerry McCulloch

Senior Lecturer in Film Practice, convenor of the MA Filmmaking (Cinematography)
g.mcculloch (@gold.ac.uk)

Gerry is an award-winning cinematographer, photographer and visual artist with a specialist interest in pre-verbal narrative.

Professor Angela McRobbie

Emeritus Professor
a.mcrobbie (@gold.ac.uk)

An elected Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Angela has provided a feminist critique of the fashion industry.

Dr Akanksha Mehta

Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Studies
a.mehta (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications
l.moor (@gold.ac.uk)

Liz's research examines the role of communication in economic life.

Dr Rachel Moore

Lecturer in International Media, convenor of the MA in Film and Screen Studies
r.o.moore (@gold.ac.uk)

Rachel's research covers early film history and theory, specifically the historical and contemporary avant-garde.

Professor David Morley

Emeritus Professor
d.morley (@gold.ac.uk)

David's research spans questions of media technologies constituting the 'electronic landscapes' within which we live.

Ms Kate Morris

Lecturer in Journalism, convenor of the BA in Journalism
k.morris (@gold.ac.uk)

Kate is a news journalist with over 15 years' experience on local, regional and national publications.

Dr Jacob Mukherjee

Lecturer
j.mukherjee (@gold.ac.uk)

Jacob works on social movements, political cultures and social media. He convenes MA Political Communications.

Hung Nguyen

Lecturer in Digital Journalism
h.nguyen (@gold.ac.uk)

Hung specialises in digital content strategy and has worked for the BBC attracting millions of audience members.

Damian Owen-Board

Lecturer
d.owen-board (@gold.ac.uk)

Damian is an artist working in photography, video and installation, exhibiting work in the UK and internationally.

Philip Palmer

Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing and Screenwriting
p.palmer (@gold.ac.uk)

Philip is an established radio dramatist, novelist and screenwriter.

Nigel Perkins

Lecturer in Communications, convenor of the MA in Photography: The Image and Electronic Arts
media-comms (@gold.ac.uk)

Nigel co-ordinated undergraduate courses and produced photography and video for clients and exhibitions internationally.

Professor Angela Phillips

Emeritus Professor
a.phillips (@gold.ac.uk)

Angela has forty years' experience as a journalist and successfully launched the local news site EastLondonLines.

Dr Anamik Saha

Senior Lecturer, Co-Convenor of the MA Race, Media and Social Justice
a.saha (@gold.ac.uk)

Anamik researches race and media with a particular focus on the cultural industries and issues of ‘diversity’.

Richard Shannon

Lecturer, Convenor MA Radio
r.shannon (@gold.ac.uk)

Richard Shannon is the Co-Convenor of the MA in Radio and Module Leader for the Producer pathway in the MA in Musical Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Dr Shela Sheikh

Lecturer, convenor of the MA in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy and the MPhil/PhD in Cultural Studies
shela.sheikh (@gold.ac.uk)

Shela's research draws on continental philosophy, post- and de-colonial studies, and environmental humanities.

Larry Sider

Senior Lecturer in Sound Recording and Design
l.sider (@gold.ac.uk)

Larry Sider is the Convenor for MA Filmmaking (Sound Recording, Post-Production and Design) and has been a sound designer, recordist and film editor for over thirty years in documentary, animation and fiction filmmaking.

Dr Richard Smith

Senior Lecturer
r.w.smith (@gold.ac.uk)

Richard explores media representations of black and Asian troops within multicultural memory and commemoration processes.

Dr Gareth Stanton

Senior Lecturer in Communications, convenor of the MPhil/PhD in Media and Communications
g.stanton (@gold.ac.uk)

Gareth is currently working on questions of world cinema, media and politics and environmental change.

Dr Dan Strutt

Lecturer
daniel.strutt (@gold.ac.uk)

Dan's work straddles the academic fields of post-cinematic media and the creative economy.

Dr Marina Vishmidt

Lecturer, convenor of the MA in Culture Industry
m.vishmidt (@gold.ac.uk)

Informed by philosophy and art theory, I focus on questions related to labour and subjectivity in culture and politics.

Dr Milly Williamson

Senior Lecturer, co-convenor of the BA in Anthropology and Media, convenor of the BA in Promotional Media
milly.williamson (@gold.ac.uk)

Milly's interest is the relationship between the media and citizenship and the means by which groups are marginalised.

Professor Joanna Zylinska

Professor of New Media and Communications
j.zylinska (@gold.ac.uk)

Joanna writes on new technologies and new media, combining philosophical writings with photographic art practice.