Research Staff
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Dr Kirsten Forkert
Professor of Cultural Studies and Associate Director, Birmingham Media and Cultural Research
Kirsten Forkert is an interdisciplinary researcher, teacher and activist. She sees teaching as a space for students connect with what they feel passionate about, explore their intellectual curiosity and creativity, and to reflect on the power relations at play within the current political moment. Her research focuses on...
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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...
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Dr Matt Grimes
Course Director BA (Hons) Music Business; Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio
Dr Matt Grimes is the course director for the BA (Hons) Music Business course and a Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio, with over 15 years experience in higher education. In 2020, he received his PhD exploring ageing and identity in British anarcho-punks. Matt’s published research and research interests include...
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Dave Harte
Head of the College of English and Media (interim)
Dave Harte is Associate Professor in Journalism and Media Studies. His research is focused on local and community journalism, and he has published widely on these topics. He was co-investigator on the UK Research Council funded project 'Media, Community and the Creative Citizen' where he led a research strand investigating...
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Vanessa Jackson
Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the College of English and Media (interim)
Vanessa Jackson is a former BBC series producer and now an associate professor in the College of Media and English 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...
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Dr Trust Matsilele
Senior Lecturer in Journalism
Trust Matsilele is an academic, political commentator and former journalist. He is an interdisciplinary researcher with an interest in the changing journalism ecologies, recruitment and retention practices in African newsrooms, the intersection of journalism and technologies and social media and protest cultures. He has...
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Dr Ed McKeon
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ed McKeon works with musicians and artists at the points where music indiscipline's others —whether theatre, installation, or performance—collaborating with artists from Pauline Oliveros to Heiner Goebbels, Elliott Sharp to Jennifer Walshe, and Kuljit Bhamra to Brian Eno. He led an MA programme on Music Management at...
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Dr Will McKeown
Lecturer in Media and Communication
Dr Will McKeown holds a PhD in Film and Creative Writing and is a lecturer in Media and Communication. His research examines the intersections between media and how depictions of selfhood and subjectivity can be understood culturally. He has published on the resonance of self-sacrifice in film as well as the complex...
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Professor John Mercer
Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Director of Researcher Education and Development
John Mercer is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His research interests focus on the social and cultural construction of masculinities in the 21st century. He is the author, with Clarissa Smith of Sexualised Masculinity: Men’s Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture...
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Dr Annette Naudin
Associate Professor
Dr Annette Naudin is Associate Professor and Academic Lead for Teaching Excellence and Student Experience in the College of English and Media. Annette co-leads CEDIA, a research cluster concerned with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts. Annette is interested in the challenges faced by cultural workers, the...