Staff in MCCS

Dr Daisy Asquith

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

Ceiren Bell

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

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.

Dr Clea Bourne

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

Dr James Burton

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

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.

Dr Omega Douglas

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

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

Ms Alice Dunseath

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

Professor Natalie Fenton

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

Professor Marianne Franklin

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

Professor Des Freedman

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

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.

Dr Ruth Garland

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

Dr Vana Goblot

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

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.

Professor Julian Henriques

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

Bruce Ingman

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

Dr Feyzi Ismail

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

Jamie McCoan

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

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.

Andrew Kingham

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

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.

Linda Lewis

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

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

Gerry McCulloch

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

Professor Angela McRobbie

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

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.

Dr Rachel Moore

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

Professor David Morley

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

Ms Kate Morris

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

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, video and installation, exhibiting work in the UK and internationally.

Philip Palmer

Philip is an established radio dramatist, novelist and screenwriter.

Nigel Perkins

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

Professor Angela Phillips

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

Dr Daniel Rourke

Daniel is a writer and artist researching digital materiality, media arts, and (critical) posthumanism.

Dr Anamik Saha

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

Richard Shannon

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

Malene Sheppard Skaerved

Larry Sider

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

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

Dr Gareth Stanton

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

Dr Dan Strutt

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

Dr Marina Vishmidt

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