Research Staff
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Ellie Tomsett
Lecturer – Course Director for Foundation in School of Media
Dr Ellie Tomsett is a lecturer in media and course director for the School of Media's Foundation Programme. Before joining BCU Ellie worked in Higher Education for four years. Ellie was an Associate Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, where she was module leader for TV Comedy and Drama and taught across a range of courses...
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Dr. Jerome Turner
Lecturer
Jerome joined BCMCR in 2012, as Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project Community, Media and the Creative Citizen. His work there focused on hyperlocal publishing, and he completed his PhD study of hyperlocal Facebook audiences in 2018. Since 2015 he has worked on various research projects, and is also involved in the...
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Professor Tim Wall
Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies
Tim Wall is Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His work focuses on popular music cultures and their mediation and history, notably those around jazz, soul and reggae. He has published extensively in international journals and books, and he applies his insights...
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Dr Nick Webber
Associate Professor
Nick Webber joined the University in 2008, after working in research development at the University of Birmingham. He has held his current post since 2016. He is a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) directorial team, and responsible for day-to-day management of the centre. Nick holds a PhD in...
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Professor Tony Whyton
Professor of Jazz Studies
Tony Whyton is Professor of Jazz Studies at BCU. His critically acclaimed books Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album (Oxford University Press, 2013) have sought to develop cross-disciplinary methods of musical...
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Dr Poppy Wilde
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, Course Director for MA Media and Cultural Studies
Dr Poppy Wilde is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication and Course Director for the MA in Media and Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on what it means and how feels to be posthuman, by exploring how posthuman subjectivities are enabled and embodied. Her research, sometimes autoethnographic, explores game...