Media and Journalism staff

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...

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...

Andrew Whitehead

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...

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...

Dr Poppy Wilde

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, Enterprise and CPD Coordinator for the College of English and Media

Dr Poppy Wilde is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication and Enterprise and CPD Coordinator for the College of English and Media. She is the author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) and has published extensively on critical posthumanism and game studies. Her research...