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Dr Oliver Carter

Professor in Creative Economies

Oliver Carter is a 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 research into...

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 (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 Mass Entertainment in...

Vanessa Jackson

Associate Professor

Vanessa Jackson is a former BBC series producer and now an associate professor 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 of Professor John Ellis at Royal...

Dr Charlotte Stevens

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications

Charlotte is interested in media audiences and games. She co-leads the BCMCR Game Cultures research cluster. Her current research focuses on Chinese television: tomb-raiding dramas, remediation of video games in television programmes, and experiences of English-language audiences for Chinese television. She has previously...

Dr Sian Vaughan

Associate Professor in Research Practice

Dr Sian Vaughan is Associate Professor in Research Practice and she leads RAAD – the centre for research in art, architecture, and design at Birmingham City University, providing strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. Sian is an internationally recognised researcher with...

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.