Media, Communications and Cultural Studies staff
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Staff list
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.
Dr Veronica Barassi
v.barassi (@gold.ac.uk)
Veronica’s research investigates web structures and everyday practices of human negotiation and resistance.
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’s main research interest is in financial markets and how they are mediated in global and local discourses.
Dr James Burton
j.burton (@gold.ac.uk)
James examines areas of cultural theory, science fiction, post-humanism, ecology and theories of fiction.
Dr Louise Chambers
l.chambers (@gold.ac.uk)
Louise researches psychology, individuals and mass media, particularly regarding gender, sexual orientation and disability.
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.
Professor Sean Cubitt
s.cubitt (@gold.ac.uk)
Sean teaches and writes about the history and philosophy of media, environmentalism and media technologies.
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.
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.
Alice Dunseath
a.dunseath (@gold.ac.uk)
A lecturer in animation, Alice teaches electronic graphics, animation and on digital moving image.
Professor Natalie Fenton
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
m.i.franklin (@gold.ac.uk)
Marianne explores issues arising from internet technologies that collude and collide with society and culture.
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.
Becky Gardiner
b.gardiner (@gold.ac.uk)
Becky has been a journalist since 1990, working mainly as an editor in both print and digital media.
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 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.
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Professor Julian Henriques
j.henriques (@gold.ac.uk)
Julian's interests are cultural studies, sound studies, narrative media, recently focussing on sound system culture.
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.
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.
Andrew Kingham
a.kingham (@gold.ac.uk)
Andrew works across the areas of illustration, animation, interactive media, photography and graphic design.
Terry Kirby
t.kirby (@gold.ac.uk)
A former Birmingham Post news editor, Terry convenes the MA Journalism and writes a column for the Independent.
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, Ellie has written for the Guardian, Independent, Financial Times and the News Statesman.
Linda Lewis
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
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’s teaching and research are concerned our relationship to media screens as material and social objects.
Dr Mirca Madianou
m.madianou (@gold.ac.uk)
Mirca's research examines the social uses and consequences of communication technologies in a transnational context.
Gerry McCulloch
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
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
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, focussing on brands and the design industry.
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.
Kate Morris
k.morris (@gold.ac.uk)
Kate is a news journalist with over 15 years' experience on local, regional and national publications.
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, video and installation, exhibiting work in the UK and internationally.
Dr Luciana Parisi
l.parisi (@gold.ac.uk)
Luciana chair's the PhD in Cultural Studies and her research draws upon aesthetics, culture, politics and technology.
Nigel Perkins
n.perkins (@gold.ac.uk)
Nigel co-ordinates undergraduate courses and produces photography and video for clients and exhibitions internationally.
Professor Angela Phillips
a.phillips (@gold.ac.uk)
Angela has forty years' experience as a journalist and successfully launched the local news site EastLondonLines.
Dr Anamik Saha
a.saha (@gold.ac.uk)
Anamik's research interests are in 'race' and its place in cultural industries and cultural production.
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.
Dr Shela Sheikh
shela.sheikh (@gold.ac.uk)
Shela's research draws on continental philosophy, post- and de-colonial studies, and environmental humanities.
Dr Richard Smith
r.w.smith (@gold.ac.uk)
Richard explores media representations of black and Asian troops within multicultural memory and commemoration processes.
Robert Smith
r.smith (@gold.ac.uk)
Robert is a filmmaker who has worked as a producer, director, cameraman and story editor.
Dr Gareth Stanton
g.stanton (@gold.ac.uk)
Gareth is currently working on questions of world cinema, media and politics and environmental change.
Dr Dan Strutt
d.strutt (@gold.ac.uk)
Dan's work straddles the academic fields of post-cinematic media and the creative economy.
Professor Couze Venn
c.venn (@gold.ac.uk)
His current research concerns the search for post-capitalist alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and climate crises.
Dr Marina Vishmidt
m.vishmidt (@gold.ac.uk)
Marina's work examines the relationship of art, value and labour, with emphasis on financialisation and subjectivation.
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.
Professor Joanna Zylinska
j.zylinska (@gold.ac.uk)
Joanna writes on new technologies and new media, combining philosophical writings with photographic art practice.