Dr Vanessa Jackson

Associate Professor

Birmingham School of Media

Email:: vanessa.jackson@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: +44 (0)121 331 6765

Vanessa Jackson is a former BBC series producer and now an associate professor in the Institute of Media and English at Birmingham City University. She teaches television production to undergraduates as well as working on employability and enterprise activities.

She completed her PhD in television historiography under the supervision of Professor John Ellis at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2018. Her research interests include the history of television, women’s roles in the television industry, as well as the uses of social media in community history projects.

She has also published on the use of social media in enhancing student employability and engagement.

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Publications

Jackson V (2022) Edited interview with David Waine (1944-2021) Head of Network Production Centre/Head of Broadcasting, BBC Pebble Mill, 1983-1994, Critical Studies in Television, 100 years of the BBC, Nations and Regions edition

Jackson, V (2021) ‘There is still some work to be done, but we’ve come a long way’: the changing position of women in technical television jobs, Women’s History Review, 1-22

Pillai, N. and Jackson, V. (2021) How Television Works: Discourses, Determinants and Dynamics Arising From The Re-enactment of Jazz 625, Journal of Popular Television

Jackson, V. et al (2020) Researching Women’s Television History in The International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication (2020) Ross, K. (ed). ICAZ – Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopaedias of Communication https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc241

Jackson, V. (2020) Issues around collaborative community online archives: A case study of the http://pebblemill.org project, in Popple, S., Prescott, A. and Mutibwa, D. H. (eds) Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices, Bristol: Policy Press

Jackson, V. (2018) Enriching ‘hands on history’ through community dissemination: a case study of the Pebble Mill project, in Ellis, J and Hall, N. (eds.) Hands on History, Oxon: Routledge

Jackson, V. (2016) “Women pushed their way forward and became quite a force within the BBC”: how women’s roles in television changed from the 1970s, and affected the making of programmes for women in Television For Women: new directions. Eds. Moseley, R. and Wheatley, H. Publisher: Routledge

Amanda Murphy, Rowan Aust, John Ellis Vanessa Jackson (2015) Adapt Simulation: 16mm Film Editing for Television; Netherlands Institute of Sound & Vision; View: Journal of European Television History & Culture (published) http://journal.euscreen.eu/index.php/view/issue/view/7/showToc

Gough, K., Harte, D., Jackson, V. (2014) “I think it’s Mad Sometimes” – Unveiling Attitudes to Identity Creation and Network Building by Media Studies Students on Facebook, in: Kent, M. and Leaver, T. (eds.) An Education in Facebook? New York, Oxon: Routledge (published) Jackson, V. (2014) Using Social Media to Build Hidden Screen Histories: A Study of the Pebble Mill Project, in: Mee, L. and Walker, J. (eds.) Cinema, Television and History: New Approaches, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing