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’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 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.
Dr Omega Douglas
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
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)
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
Professor Marianne Franklin
m.i.franklin (@gold.ac.uk)
Critical Internet Governance studies, ICT, Gender and Development, Popular Culture, Music, and Politics
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.
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 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.
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.
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)
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.
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 is a media ethnographer who investigates infrastructure, publics and urban life.
Professor 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.
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.
Ms Kate Morris
k.morris (@gold.ac.uk)
Kate is a news journalist with over 15 years' experience on local, regional and national publications.
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, video and installation, exhibiting work in the UK and internationally.
Philip Palmer
p.palmer (@gold.ac.uk)
Philip is an established radio dramatist, novelist and screenwriter.
Nigel Perkins
media-comms (@gold.ac.uk)
Nigel co-ordinated undergraduate courses and produced 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 Daniel Rourke
d.rourke (@gold.ac.uk)
Daniel is a writer and artist researching digital materiality, media arts, and (critical) posthumanism.
Dr Anamik Saha
a.saha (@gold.ac.uk)
Anamik researches race and media with a particular focus on the cultural industries and issues of ‘diversity’.
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.
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 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
daniel.strutt (@gold.ac.uk)
Dan's work straddles the academic fields of post-cinematic media and the creative economy.
Dr Marina Vishmidt
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
milly.williamson (@gold.ac.uk)
Milly's interest is the relationship between the media and citizenship and the means by which groups are marginalised.