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Dr Oliver Carter

Associate Professor in Creative Economies

Oliver Carter is an Associate Professor in Creative Economies at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University. His research focuses on alternative economies of cultural production; informal forms of industry that are often removed from a formal cultural industries discourse. His...

Dr. Hazel Collie

Course Leader - Media and Communication

Hazel Collie completed her PhD “Television for Women: Generation, Gender and the Everyday” at De Montfort University in 2014. Her doctoral research was undertaken as part of the AHRC funded project “A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-1989”. Hazel’s PhD thesis considered the role of television in the lives of...

Dr Pedro Cravinho

Keeper of the Archives – Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, Senior Research Fellow – Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR)

Dr Pedro Cravinho (born 1968) began his musical career as a self-taught electric bassist taking part of Oporto's late 1980s pop-rock scene. Cravinho got a music education on classical double bass and studied jazz (electric bass and double bass) before starting a career as a freelance bassist and educator. After taking a degree...

Professor Nicholas Gebhardt

Professor of Jazz and Popular Music Studies, Director of Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research

Nick Gebhardt is Professor of Jazz and Popular Music Studies and Director of Research in the Birmingham School of Media. His work focuses on jazz and popular music in American culture and his publications include Going For Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology (Chicago), Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and...

Vanessa Jackson

Associate Professor, Interim Deputy Head of College

Vanessa Jackson is a former BBC series producer and now an associate professor in the College of Media and English at Birmingham City University. She teaches television production as well as working on employability activities and external partnerships. She completed her PhD in television historiography under the supervision...

Dr Charlotte Stevens

Lecturer in Media and Communication

Charlotte works mainly in television and fandom studies, with a strong interest in archival and historical aspects of audiences. She also co-leads the Game Cultures research cluster. Charlotte has published on fanvids, video game fan histories, screen vampires, and poetic television documentaries on the BBC. She is currently...

Dr Sian Vaughan

Reader in Research Practice

Dr Sian Vaughan is Reader in Research Practice with expertise in doctoral education and creative research methods. She is Director of Research for RAAD – research in art, architecture, and design (REF UoA32) where she provides strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. As Reader in...

Dr Nick Webber

Associate Professor in Media

Nick Webber is Director of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR). He joined the University in 2008, having previously worked in research development. Nick has a background in medieval history, and his research now focuses on (historical) game studies.