Media Lecturers and Tutors
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Kelly O’Hanlon
Senior Lecturer in PR
Kelly has worked in the public relations industry for 17 years, both agency and in-house, consumer and B2B. A former BCU student herself, Kelly graduated in 2005 with a BA in Media and Communications, and in 2018 with an MA in Public Relations. She started her career at the multi award-winning WPR Agency and went on to lead...
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Nina Robinson
Lecturer BA Hons Journalism courses, Foundation courses, and MA Mobile & Multiplatform Journalism
Nina Robinson delivers Mobile and Multiplatform Journalism lectures to Masters students and BA Hons Journalism to undergraduate students at Birmingham City University, home to the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity for whom she has been a recipient of grant funding for research into diversity of senior leaders in...
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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...
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Ellie Tomsett
Senior Lecturer
Dr Ellie Tomsett is a Senior Lecturer in media and film. Before teaching in Higher Education, Ellie worked in the UK film education sector. During this time she delivered training to teachers, youth workers and professional filmmakers across the country and organised filmmaking and theory activities for large organisations such...
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Professor Panayiota Tsatsou
Professor in Media Diversity
Panayiota is a Greek citizen who moved to the UK in 2003 to pursue postgraduate taught and research study. Panayiota has been research-active for more than a decade and her research lies in the broader field of digital media research. Panayiota’s research has addressed phenomena concerning Internet studies and...
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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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Hilary Weston Jones
Lecturer in Professional and Academic Development
Hilary specialises in embedding employability within modules across all years and supporting students with securing work placements. Having spent 24 years working as a Television Production Manager (BBC and Independents), Hilary teaches and mentors students within this area. Hilary also works on a number of external facing...
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Andrew Whitehead
Birmingham School of Media
Andrew is a lecturer in Media Production and focuses mainly on the teaching of practical skills such as the use of specialist equipment, software and facilities. Andrew has previously worked in the media industry as a technician and engineer in television and radio studios, at live events, and as an editor for commercial...
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Professor Tony Whyton
Professor of Jazz Studies
Tony Whyton is Professor of Jazz Studies. 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...