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Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences
City Campus,
Howard Street,
Sheffield
S1 1WB

Telephone: 0114 225 5555
Fax: 0114 225 4449
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Staff profiles

Academic staff (A-Z)

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Administrative staff

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Helen Askham, Undergraduate administrator 0114 225 3481

Claire Rayner, Postgraduate administrator 0114 225 5280

Phil Andrews

Phil AndrewsPhil is a journalist and novelist who currently works as a television reporter for ITV and as a sports writer for The Independent and Independent on Sunday.  He has worked in radio and as the political editor, theatre critic, film critic, music writer, feature writer and Features Editor of the Sheffield Star. For seven years he was head of public relations for Sheffield City Council. Phil now teaches on the BA Journalism and MA Sports Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University.

He has published two novels - 'Own Goals' (2000) and 'Goodnight Vienna' (2002) (both Hodder and Stoughton) and a textbook - 'Sports Journalism: A Practical Guide' (Sage, 2005). His main interests are sports journalism, feature writing, reviewing the arts and broadcasting

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Feona Attwood

Feona AttwoodFeona Attwood is a principal lecturer in media. Her research is in the general area of gender, sex and the media.

Her current work focuses on pornography, sexuality online and researching and teaching sexually explicit media. Recent publications include articles in 'Sexualities, International Journal of Cultural Studies' and the 'Journal of Consumer Culture', and book chapters on pornography, sexual agency and research methods.

She is currently editing collections on the mainstreaming of sex and online pornography and journal special issues on researching and teaching sexual media and controversial images.

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Mike Beaken

Mike has worked as a linguist, a phonetician, a teacher of English, and an engineer. His PhD was a study of the way that children's speech develops.  Before coming to Sheffield Hallam, he lectured at Lancaster, Nottingham, Sheffield and Liverpool John Moores universities. He has also taught abroad, at Ibadan University in Nigeria and Fudan University in Shanghai.

His publications include 'The Making of Language', on the origins of language. Among his research interests are the origins of writing, and the teaching of academic writing. Mike is currently developing and writing two postgraduate modules: Persuasion Theory and Practical Persuasion.

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Rosalind Brunt

Ros is a visiting research fellow in media studies and an associate lecturer. She has a long involvement in the institutional representation of media studies, most recently with the setting up of MeCCSA, the national higher education body representing media, communication and cultural studies. She was the first vice-chair of MeCCSA and the chair of its Women's Media Studies Network and served on the QAA Quality Assurance Benchmarking Committee for the subject.

Her research interests include: the development of media studies in higher education; media representation of Muslims and news coverage of the Iraq occupation; and sexuality and popular culture.

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Rinella Cere

Rinella CereRinella Cere, (BA Hons, MA, PhD) is a senior lecturer in media studies and currently course leader for the MA in Communication and Media. She was appointed at Sheffield Hallam University in September 1995. Prior to this she was a lecturer in media studies at De Montfort University.

Her research interests lie in two broad areas: the study of contemporary Italian mass media and culture and postcolonial media culture in Britain, France and Italy. This first area of research has to date involved two main studies, the role of national and European news discourses as ‘social determinants’ of national and European identities (European and National Identities in Britain and Italy: Maastricht on Television, Mellen Press, 2000) and the study of national museums of cinema, specifically in relation to Britain, France and Italy (‘The Love of Cinema’: an international study of museums of cinema and their audience, 2009 Routledge, forthcoming). Her second  main area of interest and expertise is postcolonialism and media culture, again especially in relation to postcolonial theory and media culture in Britain, France and Italy. She is currently editing a collection of articles with Ros Brunt  which will be published by Palgrave in 2009 entitled Postcolonial Media Culture in Britain. Other recent publications include a chapter on media representation of women hostages and various chapters on alternative political activities online.

Rinella's publications include

  • ‘The Love of Cinema’: an international study of museums of cinema and their audience, 2009 Routledge, forthcoming.
  • 'Postcolonial Media Culture', with Ros Brunt, forthcoming 2009 (Palgrave)
  • ' The Body of the Woman Hostage. Spectacular bodies and Berlusconi’s media in War Body On Screen', K Randall and S Redmond eds, Continuum, 2008
  • Review article for Karen Ross and Carolyn Byerly, eds. (2004) Women and Media. International Perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell in Feminist Media Studies, Vol.5 (2), Summer 2005
  • 'Digital Counter-Cultures and the Nature of Electronic Social and Political Movements in Dot.cons: Criminal and Deviant Identities on the Internet', Y.Jewkes ed., Willan Publishing, 2003
  • 'Televising Maastricht: News Construction of Europe in Britain and Italy', Inter/Sections: The Journal of Global Communications and Culture, 2, Winter Issue, 2001

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David Clarke

David ClarkeDavid taught on the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course at Stradbroke College (Sheffield) in the '90s and joined the media studies team as a senior lecturer in journalism in August 2005. His special interests include investigative journalism, Freedom of Information Act and other access legislation, media law and contemporary legend (also known as urban legends).

David has a PhD in English Cultural Tradition and Folklore from the University of Sheffield. He has ten years experience as a journalist working for weekly and evening newspapers including the Rotherham Advertiser, Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post.  He worked in PR for five years and helped to establish a Press and Public Relations team for Rotherham Borough Council in South Yorkshire.

He has a freelance career and is a frequent contributor to magazines including BBC History, The Fortean Times other magazines and journals on supernatural belief, urban legend and folklore. He has also acted as researcher and consultant to a range of radio and television productions dealing with folklore and unexplained phenomena including a series for BBC Radio 4 in 2003-4 and a BBC2 Timewatch documentary. He has published seven non-fiction books since 1990, the most recent being 'The Angel of Mons' (London: Wiley, 2004).

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Sue CooperSue Cooper

Sue has worked in the media industries for 25 years specialising as a film maker in political and feminist issues. Her recent work involves mixed media installations using photography, video, sound and poetry. Her research is based on developing practical and creative media production packages for teaching delivered via new computer software. 'Classic Editor' allows students to gain hands on experience in the decisions film makers have in areas of the production processes from pre-production exercises to decisions made in the editing process. Using original film footage students edit their own unique version of scenes and learn the practical processes of creating meaning in film. 

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Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth

Hilary Cunliffe-CharlesworthHilary teaches across the areas of art, design and media studies. Originally trained in fine art, she took her MA at the Royal College of Art and her PhD is on the history of art and design education 1900 to 1950.  She has contributed to a number of radio programmes and has to publications on Sylvia Pankhurst, the Royal College of Art, and contemporary crafts and fashion. Her most recent publications consider the ways in which students learn. She is one of four learning, teaching and assessment co-ordinators in the Faculty and works closely with the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Art, Design and Media at a national level.

Hilary led the development of a website ensuring appropriate assessment of students and worked on national projects about learning styles and academic writing.

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Kathy DohertyKathy Doherty

Kathy Doherty trained as a psychologist but now focusses on a range of topics and issues in communication working across the boundaries of social psychology, cultural studies and critical discourse studies. Her PhD thesis was on the discursive construction of identity and enterprise culture.  She has served on several committees for the British Psychological Society (BPS) including a proud term of office as Chair of the Psychology of Women Section, the BPS Council, the Scientific Affairs Board and the Standing Conference Committee.  She is a member of the editorial advisory boards for Feminism and Psychology, the Psychology of Women Section Review and Arts and the Market. 

Kathy's research includes work on identity and accoutability in relation to sexual violence and her book for the Routledge Women and Psychology series Accounting for Rape (co-authored by Irina Anderson) was published in December 2007.  She has also recently published work examining issues of branding, identity and consumption in popular music, and on the management of identity and accountability in body reduction talk.

Kathy's teaching interests include social interaction and nonverbal communication, the management of social identity and communities and persuasion theory and practice.  She has supervised PhD projects on the topics of The Gendering of Work and Organisation in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter; Governing Employee Health; Discourses of Childhood Sexual Abuse and is currently supervising projects on Cultural Production and Consumption practices focussing on a case study of the band New Model Army; The Experience of Gay Dads and their Children and the management of Identity and Accountability in the Weight Watchers On-line Community.

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David Farbey

David FarbeyDavid joined the teaching team of the MA Professional Communication programme after completing his MA in Technical Communication in 2004. He is module leader for the software documentation module, and co-teaches on the information design module. He has taught courses on professional writing at Coventry University, and is also a tutor for the ISTC's Open Learning course in technical communication.

David is a freelance technical communications and information design professional and has been active in this field since 1994. He is a member of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, a member of the British Computer Society, and a Senior Member of the Society for Technical Communication. He has presented at professional technical communications conferences in the UK and the USA.

David's typical clients are small to medium size enterprises in high-tech industries. Recent professional assignments include creating and editing development, maintenance, and end-user documents for a corporate IT upgrade project for 35,000 end-users, and developing and producing a range of user assistance materials for a web-based eLearning system for British Universities. Previously he was sole technical author for a start-up software company developing an innovative Java-based database management system.

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Sue Featherstone

Sue is a journalist with over 20 years experience in regional newspapers and corporate public relations. As a journalist, she has covered a broad range of writing specialisms and this is reflected in her teaching interests, which include broadsheet and magazine feature writing, profiles, personal columns, reviews and opinion pieces.

She is co-author of 'Feature Writing: A Practical Introduction', published by Sage in Spring 2006, and 'Newspaper Journalism: A Practical Introduction', which was published by Sage in Spring 2005. In addition, she is a marker and assessor for the National Council for the Training of Journalists. She is currently working on her first novel.

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Anne-Florence DujardinAnne-Florence Dujardin

Anne-Florence is a senior lecturer supporting students on the masters programme in professional communication. Before joining Sheffield Hallam University in 1996, she worked as a documentation, training and communication consultant for a European software house, where for eight years she provided documentation and training solutions for clients as diverse as Barclays, Dairy Crest, Penguin, UK government departments and the European Commission.

Anne-Florence’s research interest is in information design, e-learning and academic literacies. In 2004/6, she was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship to investigate 'pedagogical usability' and develop the use of ‘Blackboard’ on the masters programme. In 2006/7, she was awarded an 'Associateship' to the CTEL for Promoting Learning Autonomy; this project involved a year-long virtual ethnography and aims at reviewing the effectiveness of a research design module newly taught online. She is currently researching issues in online induction and in academic writing for masters students.

Anne-Florence has a BA and MA in English Literature from the Sorbonne, Paris-IV, and an MEd (res) from the University of Cambridge.

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Julie Gillin

Julie is a freelance journalist and PR consultant. She is an experienced journalist having worked as a reporter, feature writer and deputy news editor on The Sheffield Star, Sheffield Telegraph and Derbyshire Times newspapers. She has particular interest in health journalism, feature writing and writing for the Internet.

Julie spent two years with media consultancy HR Media working with clients including Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield United FC, Westfield Health, Community Health Sheffield and Sheffield Health Authority. As a freelance PR consultant she specialises in the health and charity sector. Her work includes providing media training for charities and small businesses.

She has taught journalism and public relations at Sheffield Hallam for five years and has a particular interest in distance learning.

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Chris Goldie

Chris is a senior lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam, where he has worked since 1985. He is a cultural historian whose research interests include cultural change in sixties Britain, popular memory and history, and the representation of nation and national identity. He is currently writing a book on cultural modernization in Britain in the sixties.

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Karen GraingerKaren Grainger

Karen Grainger is a sociolinguist whose main research interest is in the area of interactional sociolinguistics, with special interests in institutional talk and intercultural communication. She completed her PhD thesis on 'The Discourse of Elderly Care' in 1993 and has published widely in the area of communication between health professionals and various types of patients.

Karen is currently conducting research into intercultural communication and is interested in applying pragmatic theory and conversation analytic techniques to her natural data. She also has an interest in computer mediated interaction. Karen is actively involved in the cross-institutional  Linguistic Politeness Research Group and the Communication and Computing Research Centre based at Sheffield Hallam University.  She is a member of the communication studies subject group at Sheffield Hallam, where she teaches linguistics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis at undergraduate and postgraduate level.  She is currently course leader for the BA in Communication.

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Geff GreenGeff Green

Before joining the communication studies team in 1997, Geff taught English in Indonesia for two years and later designed, programmed and maintained professional multimedia applications, eventually joining Epic Media Group PLC in Brighton.

Since joining the University, he has taught technical and professional communication, mainly at Masters level. He has also been involved with teaching multimedia and communication design to undergraduate students and teaches modules specialising in hypermedia and visual communication. His research has largely focused on 20th century cultural history in the Malay world. He is now the Faculty's International Business Developer for the Far East.

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Michael Hutchinson

Mike has been teaching for over 18 years, the last six of these at Sheffield Hallam. His main subject is electronic publishing, though he also contributes to the teaching of public relations and journalism.

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Russell JacksonRussell Jackson

Russell has undertaken research and teaching within the Department of Communication Studies since 1995. He completed his Doctoral thesis - A Foucauldian analysis of the construction of responsibility for employee health - in 2001, subsequently living in Canada for twelve months working as an occasional guest lecturer at the University of Toronto.   His main teaching and research interests are in attempting to utilise poststructralist insights from within a broadly Marxist framework in the areas of health, drugs, work, moral panics and neoliberalism.

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Clare JenkinsClare Jenkins

Clare is a freelance journalist and national radio broadcaster. As a partner in Pennine Productions, she has produced features, documentaries and short stories for Radio 4, as well as contributing to magazine programmes such as Woman’s Hour.

As a print journalist, she has written for various newspapers and magazines. She’salso edited and written a number of books based on personal testimony, among which are Relative Grief – about people’s experience of bereavement – and A Passion for Priests, about women’s relationships with Roman Catholic priests.

A major interest is oral history - she is visiting research fellow at the Centre for Oral History Research in Huddersfield, where she co-ordinated a project about the Remembrance Day two-minute silence. Her programme on the same subject was broadcast on Radio 4 on Remembrance Sunday 2009. She also runs an oral history training company, Vox Pops.

Clare is a regular visitor to India, reporting on such varied subjects as the status of widows and lesbians, the Anglo-Indian community, and the cultural significance of the bindi, the red dot on the forehead of married women.

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Peter JonesPeter Jones

Peter joined Sheffield Hallam University in 1989 after studying linguistics at York University followed by a PhD in Cambridge . His main areas of interest and research activity are Marxist philosophy and general syntactic theory (models, philosophies and methodologies).

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Marina Lewycka

Marina teaches practical journalism and public relations, and also has an interest in theoretical approaches to public relations and journalism and in professional writing. She has worked in PR and as a freelance writer for several years.

Marina LewyckaHer freelance writing has focused on health and community care issues. Her first novel, 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian', (Viking, 2005) was shortlisted for the Orange Fiction Prize. Her second novel 'Two Caravans' was published in March 2007, and she is currently working on her third novel.

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Jill McKenna

Jill gained her teaching certificate in English Literature and Art in the 1960s and graduated in Communication Studies at Sheffield Hallam in 1982. After three years study for a PhD in the Linguistic Analysis of Political Discourse at Birmingham University, she returned to Sheffield Hallam as a member of staff.

Her main areas of expertise are in critical discourse analysis, media and cultural studies and issues of gender and sexuality. Research interests include the discursive negotiation and mediation of gender, national, ethnic and other identities; discourse in hegemonic processes and governmental, professional, popular and subaltern discourses.

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John Postill

John PostillJohn is a senior lecturer in media. He is the author of 'Media and Nation Building' (Oxford: Berghahn, 2006) and is currently completing a book on local governance and cyberactivism in Malaysia entitled 'Locating the Internet', as well as the co-edited volume (with Birgit Bräuchler) 'Theorising Media and Practice', both with Berghahn. His research and teaching interests include media practice theory, Internet and mobile technology activism, social network sites and peer-to-peer production.

John has a PhD in anthropology from University College London (UCL) and is the founder of the Media Anthropology Network, European Association of Social Anthropologists. He enjoys travelling and has lived and worked in Spain (where he was raised), Britain, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, Malaysia and Romania.

Visit John's blog

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Brian Tweedale

Brian has a background in fine art and sociology. His PhD focused on the British Media's reporting of Northern Ireland. His teaching and research interests are in media sociology, the media and social divisions, the museum, and shrines and shrine making. He has responsibility for undergraduate provision in communication studies and represents communications and media on the Higher Education Academy's reference group.

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Dave Waddington

Dave WaddingtonDavid Waddington is a professor of communications and Head of the Communication and Computing Research Centre (CCRC).  He is also Chair of the ACES Faculty Research Ethics Committee. David has been a member of the academic staff since March 1983. His main research interests are: policing and public disorder, industrial relations, the sociology of communities, and research methodologies. 

Among his better known works are, 'Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder: A Comparative and Historical Approach' (Routledge, 1992) and 'Flashpoints: Studies in Public Disorder' (with Karen Jones and Chas Critcher, Routledge, 1989).  His most recent book is 'Policing Public Disorder: Theory and Practice' (Willan, 2007).

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Carolyn Waudby

Carolyn WaudbyCarolyn lectures part-time and also works as a freelance writer specialising in travel features for newspapers and magazines.

Between 2003 and 2005 she carried out press work for a Government Minister. Before turning freelance in 2000 she worked in regional newspapers for 15 years. Her last position was as a feature writer and columnist with the Star, Sheffield. Prior to that she specialised in consumer journalism. Whilst working for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph she received a Newspaper Society award for coverage of a flood disaster in Pakistan. She has written several websites, including an internet guide to Sheffield, and a website for children on the history of the fairground for the University of Sheffield.

Carolyn has also had poetry published in leading poetry magazines. In 2000 she received an Arts Council grant to produce a pamphlet of poetry based on works of art. The same year a poem on wind turbines was used as the basis of a short film for the big screen. She won Third Prize in the Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Competition 2007 with a poem from a collection inspired by a visit to Cuba.

To read some of her work, visit Carolyn's blog

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Patrick Wichert

Patrick WichertPatrick is a lecturer in communication studies, multimedia, and communication design at Sheffield Hallam University. Before coming to Sheffield in 1997, he worked and studied in Switzerland and Germany. His previous work includes freelance multimedia design, photography and teaching roles at a variety of organisations and at both universities in Sheffield. He studied for two years in fine art and design in Basel followed by five years in fine art in Bremen. He then completed the MA Fine Art degree here in Sheffield.

Patrick's interests centre around visual expression, contemporary art discourse, photography, and design while maintaining a strong portfolio in landscape photography. Digital technologies are central to his work with current research focusing on inter-cultural communication, typography and visual communication in general. He has expert knowledge of a range of industry standard software tools, eg Photoshop, Director, Flash, or Dreamweaver and has overseen many successful client based projects over the years.

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Noel Williams

Noel WilliamsNoel joined Sheffield Hallam in 1979, where he was head of art, design, communication and media from 2003-2005, and is now acting head of postgraduate research in the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI). His main research interests are in writing, especially technical and creative writing, in digital communications, especially multimedia and writing technologies, and in e-learning, both at policy and practical levels.

In 2003 he was seconded to the DfES to manage the evaluation of Curriculum OnLine. In 2005 the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators awarded him the Horace Hockley Award for his contribution to the technical publications industry. He has acted as communications consultant or researcher for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council, AT&T, BECTA, the British Academy, BSI, BYG Systems, the Crown Prosecution Service, the DfES, JISC, General Domestic Appliances, IBM (UK), Hepworth Heating, LTSN-GEES, NCVQ, Peak Park Planning Authority, SCOTVEC, Sheffield City Council, Skillset and local TECs.

Current research interests are: communicative aspects of computer games, interactive texts and e-books, e-learning, teaching writing and creativity. In 2007-8 he’s been engaged in five separate projects with BECTA on different aspects of ICTs in education. His most recent book is 'How to Get a 2.1 in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies' (Sage). He’s also recently been publishing poetry, with poems in eight poetry journals in the last twelve months.

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Simeon Yates

Simeon YatesSimeon has a background in social science (sociology and linguistics) as well as an interest and training in science (geology). His current research interests include

    •    new media and interpersonal interaction
    •    science communication
    •    discourse analysis - theory and methods

He is the Director of the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) and was previously Head of the Communication and Computing Research Centre.

His main current research project is a study of mobile phone use in public and SMS 'text message' interactions among young adults. This research includes the examination of gender differences in SMS 'text message' practices and content. Other current and previous research topics include

    •    socio-linguistics of on-line interaction
    •    science in the media
    •    gender and new media use

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