Research Staff
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Dr Yemisi Akinbobola
Senior Lecturer
Yemisi holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Birmingham City University. She is a senior lecturer and International Research Partnerships Manager in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media. Her research interests are in African Feminism(s) and media in Africa, particularly the intersections of Women's Rights and Media,...
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Dr Simon Barber
Research Fellow
Dr Simon Barber researches, writes and lectures about popular music, the music industries, digital culture and jazz. As a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Simon is particularly interested in the study of songwriting, and relationships between creative workers and industry. He convenes the...
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Dr Oliver Carter
Reader in Creative Economies
Dr. Oliver Carter is a Reader 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. He is the author of the...
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Dr Rachel-Ann Charles
Course Director & Lecturer
Rachel-Ann is a Course Director on the MA in Global Media Management and she lectures across undergraduate courses within the School of Media. She is also a Researcher at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR), Birmingham City University (BCU) and has made contributions to the study of social action...
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Sam Coley
Course Leader MA Media Production and Associate Professor (International)
Sam Coley is an Associate Professor (International) for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University. He is also Award Leader for the MA Media Production at Birmingham School of Media, where he teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate audio production modules. Sam is a member of the Birmingham...
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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...
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Dr Gemma Commane
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, MA Cultural Studies
Dr Gemma Commane is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications. Broadly the areas of her expertise span the fields of media and cultural studies and gender and sexuality. Her research interests focus on contemporary cultural studies, gender and sexuality, queer studies, sexual economies and entrepreneurship, dangerous...
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Dr Asya Draganova
Lecturer in Media and Communication
Dr Asya Draganova is a Lecturer in Media and Popular Music Culture and a researcher co-leading the Popular Music Research Cluster based at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research . Asya is the Course Director for MA Media and Cultural Studies and teaches across all MA programmes at the School of Media within the...
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Professor Rajinder Dudrah
Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries
Rajinder Dudrah is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries and served as the Interim Associate Dean for Research, Innovation and Enterprise in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University (2021-22). He has also served as the University's AHRC-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training...
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Dr Kirsten Forkert
Professor of Cultural Studies and Associate Director, Birmingham Media and Cultural Research
Kirsten Forkert is an interdisciplinary researcher, teacher and activist. She sees teaching as a space for students connect with what they feel passionate about, explore their intellectual curiosity and creativity, and to reflect on the power relations at play within the current political moment. Her research focuses on...