Staff in MCCS
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Staff list
Dr Daisy Asquith
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
t.bass (@gold.ac.uk)
An independent producer, Tracy has won international awards and a BAFTA nomination for her film CARE.
Ceiren Bell
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
j.berry (@gold.ac.uk)
Josephine has interests in the creative economy and the relationship between creativity, life and power.
Professor Lisa Blackman
l.blackman (@gold.ac.uk)
Lisa works at the intersection of body studies, media and cultural theory, particularly subjectivity and embodiment.
Arnold Borgerth-Filho
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
c.bourne (@gold.ac.uk)
Clea explores economies and market practices at the cross-section of media, cultural and market studies.
Dr Ergin Bulut
e.bulut (@gold.ac.uk)
Ergin researches the politics of work in cultural industries and affective dimensions of neoliberal-authoritarianism.
Dr James Burton
j.burton (@gold.ac.uk)
James examines areas of cultural theory, science fiction, post-humanism, ecology and theories of fiction.
Dr Jason Vincent A. Cabañes
j.cabanes (@gold.ac.uk)
Jason researches on media, migration, and multiculturalism as well as on digital media in the global South.
Dr Sarah Cefai
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
l.chambers (@gold.ac.uk)
Louise researches psychology, individuals and mass media, particularly regarding gender, sexual orientation and disability.
Dr Aleena Chia
a.chia (@gold.ac.uk)
Aleena researches cultures of creativity and digital labour in game production and computational wellness.
Professor Sue Clayton
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
t.crook (@gold.ac.uk)
Tim has broad interests, from international media law and ethics to the dramaturgy of espionage and spy fiction.
Dr Laura Cuch
l.cuch (@gold.ac.uk)
Professor James Curran
j.curran (@gold.ac.uk)
James’ work falls into two linked areas: media history and media political economy.
Professor Aeron Davis
aeron.davis (@gold.ac.uk)
His research merges elements of political communications, economic sociology, cultural economy and financialization.
Lina Dencik
L.Dencik (@gold.ac.uk)
Lina researches the relationship between digital media and social change with a focus on the politics of data and AI
Dr Omega Douglas
omega.douglas (@gold.ac.uk)
Race, diversity, journalism, and the role of diasporic communities and international institutions in global communicatio
Professor Tony Dowmunt
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
a.dunseath (@gold.ac.uk)
Alice works across diverse mediums ranging from video art and moving image to animation, live-action, and installations.
Professor Natalie Fenton
n.fenton (@gold.ac.uk)
Natalie's research interrogates the relationship between media, democracy and social change.
Professor Des Freedman
d.freedman (@gold.ac.uk)
Des Freedman is interested in media and power together with media policymaking, regulation and reform.
Professor Matthew Fuller
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
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
i.gaber (@gold.ac.uk)
Ivor is an Emeritus Professor of Broadcast Journalism in the Department.
Dr Ruth Garland
r.garland (@gold.ac.uk)
My main research project is a longitudinal study of UK government communications from 1979 to date.
Dr Vana Goblot
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
Michael.Goddard (@gold.ac.uk)
Michael researches film, contemporary television, popular music, digital screen cultures and their multiple relations
Dr Graham Harwood
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
j.henriques (@gold.ac.uk)
My research and teaching are concerned with sound, technology, popular culture, affect theory and knowledge systems.
Dr Kathryn Claire Higgins
k.higgins (@gold.ac.uk)
Kat's work explores the mediated cultural politics of vulnerability, (state) violence, and contemporary feminisms.
Dr Adrian Hillman
ahill001 (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr. Hillman’s interests lie in the different elements that come into play in the construction of news.
Bruce Ingman
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
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
j.mccoan (@gold.ac.uk)
Jamie McCoan is a professional film editor with over 25 years of experience.
Dr Wendy Jordan
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
s.kember (@gold.ac.uk)
Sarah focusses on the future of publishing, digital media, smart media, feminist science and technology studies.
Dr Gholam Khiabany
g.khiabany (@gold.ac.uk)
Gholam studies the relationship between citizenship, political activism and media and cultural practices.
Terry Kirby
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
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
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.
Professor Jo Littler
j.littler (@gold.ac.uk)
Jo's work analyses changing cultures of inequality in society in relation to gender, ‘race’ and class.
Jacob Love
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
r.macdonald (@gold.ac.uk)
Richard is a media ethnographer who investigates infrastructure, publics and urban life.
Professor Mirca Madianou
m.madianou (@gold.ac.uk)
Mirca studies the social consequences of communication technologies, infrastructures and AI in a global south context.
Angela Mcrobbie
a.mcrobbie (@gold.ac.uk)
Angela McRobbie is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Glasgow University.
Dr Akanksha Mehta
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
l.moor (@gold.ac.uk)
Liz's research examines the role of communication in economic life.
Dr Rachel Moore
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
d.morley (@gold.ac.uk)
David's research spans questions of media technologies constituting the 'electronic landscapes' within which we live.
Dr Jacob Mukherjee
j.mukherjee (@gold.ac.uk)
Jacob works on social movements, political cultures and social media. He convenes MA Political Communications.
Hung Nguyen
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
d.owen-board (@gold.ac.uk)
Damian is an artist working in photography and video whose work engages with queerness, architecture and belonging
Professor Angela Phillips
a.phillips (@gold.ac.uk)
Angela has forty years' experience as a journalist and successfully launched the local news site EastLondonLines.
Marcela Pizarro Coloma
m.pizarro (@gold.ac.uk)
Marcela works on the geo/politics, economics and history of news media around the world.
Professor Catherine Rottenberg
C.Rottenberg (@gold.ac.uk)
Catherine's research investigates the convergence of feminism and neoliberalism as well as the politics of care
Dr Daniel Rourke
d.rourke (@gold.ac.uk)
Daniel is a writer and artist researching digital materiality, media arts, and (critical) posthumanism.
Richard Shannon
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.
Malene Sheppard Skaerved
mskaerved (@gold.ac.uk)
Larry Sider
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
r.w.smith (@gold.ac.uk)
Richard explores media representations of black and Asian troops within multicultural memory and commemoration processes.
Dr Dan Strutt
daniel.strutt (@gold.ac.uk)
A digital media theorist leading practice-based research projects in digital dance and motion-captured performance
Nathaniel Tkacz
n.tkacz (@gold.ac.uk)
Nate's research focuses on the culture and politics of digital media, with a focus on apps, data and interfaces.
Dr Milly Williamson
milly.williamson (@gold.ac.uk)
Milly's interest is the relationship between the media and citizenship and the means by which groups are marginalised.
Alison Winch
a.winch (@gold.ac.uk)
Alison looks at connections between intimacy and power in digital cultures.