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| Professor Stuart Allan BAA, MA, PhD Centre Director |
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Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism in the Media School. He is Director of the Centre for Journalism and Communication Research, and chair of the Journalism Research Group. Recent and forthcoming books include: Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication (Palgrave, 2009), Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives (Peter Lang, 2009), Digital War Reporting (Polity, 2009), The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (Routledge, 2010), News Culture (Open U Press, third edition, 2010), Rethinking Communication (Hampton, 2010) and Keywords in News and Journalism Studies (Open U Press, 2010). His current research projects include science journalism on the internet; journalism history; crisis reporting (especially citizen journalism); young people, citizenship and digital media. |
| Dr Bronwen Thomas BA, PGCE, MA, PhD Group Leader |
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Bronwen Thomas is a member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), and affiliate member of Project Narrative (OSU, US). She has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Narrative and the Routledge Encylopedia of Narrative. Bronwen is interested in contemporary British and American fiction, fictional dialogue, digital narratives (fanfiction, digital storytelling, hypertext fiction), and screen adaptations of literary texts. She can be reached at bthomas@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Richard Berger BSc (Hons), PG Cert, MA, PhD, FHEA |
Richard Berger is Reader in Media & Education at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University. He coordinates pedagogic research in the Media School, BU and his other research interests include the adaptation of literature, comic books and videogames to film and television as well as blogging, fanfic, and other forms of personal expression online. In addition, Richard is an experienced broadcaster and journalist for BBC Online and BBC Radio and co-editor of The Media Research Journal. He can be reached at rberger@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Helen Cooper BA (Hons), PGCTHE, MA |
Helen Cooper is a member of The Burney Society, which promotes study and research into the life and work of eighteenth century author Frances Burney. She is the author of Persuasion and Power: The significance of the mentor in three novels by Frances Burney in A Celebration of Frances Burney edited by Lorna Clark. She is interested in women’s writing, especially the novel, and is currently researching the representation of widows in literature, culture and media. She can be reached at hcooper@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Rosie Cullen |
Rosie Cullen is a member of the Narratives Research Group and the Author's Licensing Society. She has taught for many years in different areas of creative writing, prose, writing for theatre and screenwriting, both in academic institutions and as a Writer in Residence in prisons and psychiatric institutions. She is a published playwright and has written scripts for film and TV. She is currently engaged on a multi-stranded epic novel, The Lucky Country, exploring dislocation, the indigenous and emigrant experience, in mid-twentieth century Australia. Rosie is also developing a web based version of the novel which will encourage participants to structure and contribute to the narrative world. She can be reached at rcullen@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Dr Hywel Rowland Dix |
Hywel Dix is a specialist in modern and contemporary English literature, critical cultural theory, postcolonial studies and film studies. Having studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and York, he taught English as a foreign language and travelled extensively in Asia and the Far East. From 2003–06 Hywel was Raymond Williams Research Fellow at the University of Glamorgan. This led to the award of a doctoral degree for the thesis Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break–Up of Britain, which was published by the University of Wales Press in 2008. A follow up study entitled Postmodern Fiction and the Break–Up of Britain was published by Continuum in 2010. Hywel is interested in how literature relates to social and political structures and is currently beginning to develop a new research project provisionally entitled Reading, Writing and Republicanism in Britain. |
| David Fevyer |
David Fevyer is currently studying on the MPhil/PhD programme at Southampton University, on the narrativising and representation of crisis in contemporary Anglophone literature. His areas of interest are digital/interactive narratives (hypertext fictions, cybertexts, videogame narrative), the use of narrative in qualitative research, especially hypertext narratives, and contemporary Anglophone literature. David can be reached at dfevyer@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Trevor Hearing |
Trevor Hearing is currently researching new forms of documentary narrative through the combination of video and text. He is interested in how documentary video can be used as an investigative tool and is exploring this in practice-based research for his PhD as well as in his many "academic films". He is a member of the consultative group for the AHRC Network "Media and The Inner World". In a former life Trevor Hearing has been a television cameraman, researcher, film researcher, producer, director, writer and executive producer." Trevor can be reached at thearing@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Line Langebek |
Line Langebek is a member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. She has contributed articles to Broadcast and Scriptwriter Magazine (now Twelvepoint.com), and her research interests are political film and TV narratives (fiction and documentaries), the road movie genre, radio narratives and screen adaptations. Line can be reached at llangebek@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Phil Mathews BA, MA |
Phil Mathews is a member of the Narratives Research Group and the Writer's Guild of Great Britain. He is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in the area of screenwriting, concerned with the limitations of character arcs in romance narratives. Phil is interested in world cinema, genre developments in romance, road movies, sci-fi, and horror, screenwriting theory and formats. |
| Dr James Pope BA (Hons), MA, PGCE, PhD |
Dr James Pope teaches English literature, narrative theory, and creative writing across several degrees in the Media School. His research interests are in the area of new-media narrative, reader-response studies, and children's literature. He is currently developing a software package for interactive writing, the aim of which is to offer an accessible platform for 'non-technical' creative writers. He is also working on an original interactive fiction. He has published six novels for teenagers. He can be reached at jpope@bournemouth.ac.uk |
| Mark Readman |
Mark Readman is a PhD candidate in CEMP, Media School, Bournemouth University, studying the meaning of creativity in relation to screenwriting. He is the author of Teaching Scriptwriting, Screenplays and Storyboards for the BFI. He is interested in screenplays and screenwriting, qualitative judgements of creative work, identity – narratives of the self, and narrative research methodologies. He can be reached at mark@cemp.ac.uk |
| Dr Julia Round |
Julia Round edits the new academic journal Studies in Comics (Intellect Books), is a member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) and has published in the International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA) and the Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture (SEL&C) series. Further details can also be found at www.juliaround.com or at www.academia.edu. |
| Sue Sudbury |
Sue Sudbury has directed a number of award winning documentary films for British television. Most recently, she has produced and directed a film for Aljazeera English and is exec producing a Cutting Edge for Channel 4. She is also a practice based researcher and PhD student, working on a participatory film with a group of women in rural India. She sits on the Advisory Committee of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival and is developing new films in Russia and India. She can be reached at ssudbury@bournemouth.ac.uk. |
| Dr Chindu Sreedharan PhD |
Chindu Sreedharan is interested in creative non-fiction – on- and off-line. Formerly associate editor to rediff.com and India Abroad, he has dabbled in literary journalism for more than a decade, as staff writer, features editor and online serial editor. He holds a PhD in war reportage and is fascinated by experiential journalism, including classic and contemporary narratives of conflicts Chindu co-edits Interjunction, an online forum to foster media-academia interaction. He is a reviewer for the Media, War & Conflict journal, serves on the advisory panel of the Media and Inner World, and blogs at www.chindu.net He can be reached at csreedharan@bournemouth.ac.uk |