Centre for Media Research Annual Report - University of Ulster

MEDIA STUDIES
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ANNUAL REPORT
1 AUGUST 2008 - 31 JULY 2009

MEDIA STUDIES
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ANNUAL REPORT
1 August 2008 – 31 July 2009

MEDIA STUDIES
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ANNUAL REPORT
(1 AUGUST 2008 - 31 JULY 2009)
CONTENTS
Page No
1. Foreword from the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) 3
2. Foreword from the Director of the Research Institute 5
3. Research Institute Members 7
4. Research Students 8
5. Research Publications 10
6. Research Funding 14
7. Indicators of Esteem 15

1. Foreword by the Pro Vice Chancellor
(Research and Innovation)
I am particularly delighted to provide the Foreword to
this year’s Annual Reports. Research and Innovation
at the University of Ulster continues to grow and to
make major contributions to the economic and social
wellbeing of Northern Ireland and beyond. This past
year has seen us climb to a position where we are in
the top third of research institutions in the country
and are, again, amongst the top performers in the UK
in translating our research and research expertise
into significant economic benefit. In reading the
annual reports from University of Ulster Research
Institutes I am confident that you will find the research
undertaken at Ulster to have more than fulfilled expectations over the past year.
The University’s reputation for high quality research was independently confirmed
through the results of the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. The overall
performance puts Ulster in the top third of the UK institutions with three Units
in the top three and eleven in the top twenty as measured against peers. This is
our best ever performance and confirms our strategy on quality, selectivity and
supporting environment. Our exceptional performance in the RAE has boosted
our efforts to attract high-calibre research staff to work alongside our existing
internationally strong teams, in attracting external research and other income
and in completing work that has led to highly prestigious papers, books and other
key performance outputs.
We are now in a very strong and confident position as we prepare for the next
national assessment due in 2013. This year we produced a new Research Strategy
to provide us with an appropriate quality framework that will support our future
submission to the newly designed Research Excellence Framework (REF). The
new approach to assessment through the REF will present many challenges,
particularly in relation to the new Impact category and in the administrative
structures. We embark upon this process with great confidence and expectation
having evidenced another very strong performance in the translation of our
research expertise into economic and social benefits. There continues to be
a very strong flow of research findings coming out of our research activities
this year, many as new disclosures, adding to our intellectual property portfolio.
We continue to exploit this asset through knowledge and technology transfer
activities managed through our Office of Innovation.
University of Ulster research teams were awarded grants totalling over £29M
for the academic year 2008/9, up almost £18M on the previous year. During the
same period Research Capital funding totalled £8M and the University’s Research
Council income was approximately £3M. A particularly pleasing aspect of our
grant income profile shows that grants were awarded to each of our six faculties
and across all four campuses, highlighting research excellence throughout the
University.
Cross border research projects funded by the Department for Employment and
Learning (DEL) under its Cross Border R&D Funding Programme accounted for
the substantial increase in research funding from previous years with five Ulster
research teams awarded grants totalling £7.7M to conduct collaborative research
projects with sister universities in the Republic of Ireland.
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I am, of course, delighted but not surprised at this superb performance since
external funders of research only allocate funding where they are confident that
quality exists and Ulster’s recent research activity is evidence of that quality. It is,
however, particularly pleasing to record such a level of funding during a period
when there has been significant pressure on the economy in general and finance
in particular. It is gratifying that that funders have confidence in the quality of our
work and are assured that it will reap benefits in the future.
In addition to the annual allocation of DEL postgraduate studentships of £4.91M,
this year, the University received just over £1.41M in support of 78 new and
continuing DEL funded PhD studentships to be held in research areas that
have specific relevance to the Northern Ireland economy; thus allowing further
development of R&D talent essential for innovation in business and the public
sector. This funding enables Ulster to support 272 full-time research students
with a further 123 full-time awards supported from a range of other sources of
funding.
The University, through its research and outreach activity, makes a significant
contribution on the local and world stages. Our staff inform both policy
development at regional and national level and are leaders in gaining understanding
of the many of the global challenges facing us in today’s world.
I trust that you will enjoy reading the Report and I commend it to you as evidence
that research at the University of Ulster ranks highly amongst UK institutions.
Professor ND Black
Pro Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation)
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2. Foreword by the
Research Institute Director
During the first half of the year under review, Prof.
Máire Messenger-Davies was on research leave, and
Prof. Martin McLoone was Acting Director of the
Media Studies Research Institute, now officially titled
the Centre for Media Research. Prof Davies was also a
member of the RAE sub-panel 66 during this time. This
report is jointly produced by Profs. Messenger Davies
and McLoone. For the 2008 RAE, Media Studies staff
produced over 230 eligible outputs - books, articles,
chapters, films and digital installations. The results of
the RAE were announced at the end of 2008. Our
Media Studies submission achieved an excellent result.
Institution Subject No. of 4* 3* 2* 1* U
Staff
Ulster
COM., Cult.&
Med. Studies 17 10% 65% 20% 5% 0%
This means that 75% of all research in Media Studies was judged ‘internationally
excellent’ - the equivalent of a 5* rating in the 2001 RAE. Our grade point average
was 2.8 making us joint 10 th in the UK out of 47 submissions. In its summary
judgment, the RAE panel assessment was that:
A significant proportion of the work submitted was of international
excellence and this included the media practice outputs and also the
historical studies. Within this proportion, work of world-class quality
was noted. Across the whole submission, work displaying international
recognition or excellence was predominant. The commitment to work
which variously explored the history, media profile and cultural identity
of Northern Ireland came out strongly as one of the primary points of
research focus.
The RAE result and the panel judgment are very gratifying and are testament to
the quality of the research in Media Studies. It is hoped that they have provided a
secure foundation for the next assessment - the Research Excellence Framework,
or REF.
As we pointed out last year, the Centre for Media Research is located within
the school of Media, Film and Journalism - a department where creative and
professional practice in film, video, media arts, photography and journalism are
combined with rigorous intellectual research and teaching in the history, theory,
aesthetics and politics of media. We have a diverse group of staff whose research
backgrounds and approaches range from journalism studies, through critical
analysis of text and image, historical analyses, aspects of culture and identity,
audience studies, archive explorations and creative practices. Since last year, we
have said goodbye to Dr, Amy Davis (who joined the University of Hull) and we
have welcomed to the full-time academic staff former student and successful PhD
candidate of the School, Dr. Ciara Chambers, a researcher in Film Studies, and
Alan Hook, a digital media and digital arts specialist.
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Events
In June, 2009, the RI met together for two ‘away days’ of dedicated research
planning to devise a research strategy for the next five years. The meeting was
very productive and a number of new research initiatives and research projects
were identified which the RI began to implement in the following year. It was
decided that, given its national and international recognition, we would retain
the name CMR as a recognised identity for the whole research institute and all
researchers would be part of the CMR. This means that our journalism strand
and other strands of personal research are now fully within the CMR ambit and
research strategy. This vibrancy and diversity of research within the RI is reflected
in the range of conferences and symposia that RI staff attended throughout the
year and the many research events at which staff gave invited key note papers and
other presentations.
PhD students
The CMR continues to support a lively postgraduate research culture, based
in its own dedicated PhD suite. The year 2008-9 also saw a new group of PhD
researchers enter the CMR and details of these are listed below. All in all, in what
was inevitably a transition year in the research cycle, this has been a year of both
consolidation and renewal. We have an exciting research culture in Media Studies
and our thanks for this go to the staff and research students whose achievements
are recorded here.
Further information on the CMR activities can be seen on the website at the CMR
website at http://cmr.ulster.ac.uk/test, which is currently under (re)construction.
Prof. Máire Messenger Davies, Director, Centre for Media Research, with
acknowledgements to Prof. Martin McLoone, Acting Director in the first half of
the year.
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3. Research INSTITUTE MEMBERS: 2008 - 2009
Surname Forename Title Position
Baker Steve Dr Lecturer in Media Studies (appointed April, 2008)
Baylis Gail Dr Lecturer in Media Studies
Crilly Anne Ms Lecturer in Media Studies
Davis Amy Dr Lecturer in Media Studies
Edge Sarah Dr Head of School, Media, Film and Journalism
Ekins Richard Prof Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies
Jackson Helen Mrs Lecturer in Media Studies
McLaughlin Cahal Dr Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
McLaughlin Gregory Dr Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
McLoone Martin Prof Professor of Media Studies
(Film, Television & Photography),
Acting Director Media Studies Research Institute
Messenger Davies Máire Prof Professor of Media Studies;
Director of the Centre for Media Research;
Director of the Media Studies Research Institute
Murphy Colm Mr Lecturer in Media Studies (Journalism)
Porter Robert Dr Lecturer within the Media Studies Research
Institute
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4. Research STUDENTS
Full-time PhD Students in Media Studies Research Institute during 2008/09
Name
Title of Project
Rory Kelly
Stephen Spielberg’s ‘World War II’
Name
Chris Legge
Title of Project/
Field of Research Early Cinema in the North of Ireland 1895 - 1929
Name
Phil Ramsey
Title of Project/ Media and the public Sphere in Britain 1994-2007
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Niamh O’Sullivan
Photographic Representation of East African Refugees
Daire Mulholland
The Information/Knowledge Economy, Education and Northern Ireland
Rachael Kelly
Images of Antony and Cleopatra in the Cinema
Kirk Brownlee
The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski
Jolene Mairs
Prison Memory Archive/Documentary
Alexandra Cochrane
The Politics and Economics Of Children’s Television:
A Production and Audience Research Study
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Part-time PhD students within Media Research Institute 2008-2009
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Margaret O’Brien-Moran
Eyes Fixed on the Past: The Poole Imperial Collection of photographs
brian Laughlin
Media coverage of Health Issues in Northern Ireland
Hyun Chul Kim
Models for Press regulation in South Korea
University of Ulster and Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (Bangalore) run joint PhD programme in
Comparative Film Studies which provides UU PhD scholarships to three candidates.
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Name
Title of Project/
Field of Research
Ayumi Hata*
Sound in Japanese Documentary
Min-Sung Jun*
Cultural Modernisation in China: Hong Kong China Dialogue
Vishnu Vardhan Thirukkovalluri*
Telegu Cinema: from Mythologicals to Socials
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5. Research PUBLICATIONS
BAKER
• (with Greg McLaughlin) ‘The Media, Terrorism and Northern Ireland: Changing Images, Changing Frameworks’,
published online by the Centre for Conflict Resolution Journalism. (http://www.ccrj.org/13207/13901.html)
• (with Greg McLaughlin) ‘House training the paramilitaries: The media and the propaganda of peace’ in
C.Coulter and M.Murray (Eds.) Northern Ireland After the Troubles. A Society in Transition. (Manchester; Manchester
University Press); pp.253-271. 2008
• (with Greg McLaughlin) ‘Paramilitary and Dissident Media (Northern Ireland)’, in John Downing (Ed.)
Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (London: Sage) (2010)
BAYLIS
• ‘Remediations: or when is a boring photograph not a boring photograph’. Photographies, 1 (1). Pp 29-48. ISSN
1754-0763 pront/1754-0771. 2008
• (with Anne Burke) ‘History begins at ground level: Photographic Installation’, London Street: A Visual
Exploration, Orchard Gallery, Derry, 10 Oct-14 Nov, 2008
• Conference paper: ‘Ambivalent Memory: An Irish photo-text’, IMN conference, Maynooth University, 18-20
Sept, 2008
• ‘A few too many Some considerations on the digitisation of historical photographic archives’. In MIT6
Conference, Cambridge, Mass. (2009)
• ‘Metropolitan Surveillance and rural opacity: secret photography in late-nineteenth-century Ireland’. In History
of Photography, 33. pp 26-38. ISSN 0308-7298C. 2009
EDGE
• ‘Le Petit Chaperon Rouge’ A Photographic Exhibition Riverside Gallery Coleraine. (March- May 2008)
• Exhibition curator: ‘London Street, A Visual Exploration’; at the Context Gallery Derry City
November-December 2008
• Journal Article: ‘Negotiating Peace in Northern Ireland: Film, Television and Post Feminism; in Visual Culture in
Britain, Vol 10, Issue 2, Taylor & Francis (Routledge); pp 177-187, ISSN 1471-4787. 2009
• Journal Article: ‘Photography, Higher Education and the Skills Agenda’; in Photographies; Vol. 2 No. 2; Routledge
Taylor and Francis; pp 203-214. ISSN 1754-0763. 2009
• Journal Article: ‘Urbanisation Discourse Class Gender in Mid Victorian Photographs of Maids’ – reading the
archive of Arthur J Munby. Critical Discourse Studies, 5 (4), pp. 303-317. ISSN 1740-5904. 2009
EKINS
• ‘Back on Track: The Case of the Louis James Orchestra, 1967-2008, New Orleans Music, Vol.14, No. 4, p. 24
[letter to the editor]. 2008
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• ‘Pitch Monitoring, Pitch Correction and the Case of the Louis James Orchestra, 1967’, New Orleans Music, Vol.
14, No. 3, pp. 6-14. 2008
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• ‘Doc Paulin’, New Orleans Music, Vol.14, No. 2, p. 20 [letter to the editor]. 2008
• (with King, D.) ‘Gender Oscillating, Life History and Transgender Autobiography, Proceedings of the
Transgender Conference, June 2007, University of East Anglia, UK, CD Rom. 2008
• (with King D) ‘Transgender Conferences in the UK: 1974-2007, Proceedings of the Transgender Conference,
June 2007, University of East Anglia, UK, CD Rom. 2008
• 504/La Croix Records CD95 – The Lord Richard New Orleans Sessions, Volume 5: The Louis James Orchestra
featuring Earl Humphrey and Andrew Morgan, 1967 and Capt. John Handy’s New Orleans Four, 1966, with
accompanying 12pp booklet. 2008
• 504/La Croix Records CD94 – The Lord Richard New Orleans Sessions, Volume 4: Billie and DeDe Pierce, 1967,
with Louis Nelson, Cie Frazier, and Chester Zardis, with accompanying 12pp. booklet. 2008
• Bockting, W., Ekins, R., and King, D. (eds.) (2008) International Journal of Transgenderism, Volume 10, Numbers 3-4.
• Bockting, W., Ekins, R., and King, D. (eds.) (2008) International Journal of Transgenderism, Volume 10, Number 2.
• (with King, D.) ‘The Emergence of New Transgendering Identities in the Age of the Internet’, in S. Hines and T.
Sanger (eds) Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity’, London and New York: Routledge,
November 2009.
• 504/La Croix Records CD96 – The Lord Richard New Orleans Sessions, Volume 6: Dan Pawson: Living the Legend,
1971-1998, with accompanying 16pp booklet. (in production) 2009
• Bockting, W., Ekins, R., and King, D. (eds) International Journal of Transgenderism, Volume 11, Number 1, Special
Issue: Toward Version 7 of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care. 2009
JACKSON H
• Conference proceedings: ‘Learning and New Technologies – Moving beyond the Technology’, Challenge and
Change in the Higher education Learning Environment: Process and Practice Proceedings, 1, pp 370-389. 2009
• Journal Article: Knowing Photography Now: the knowledge economy of photography in the twenty-first
century’, Photographies, Vol 2, Issue 2, Pages: 169 – 183, Publisher: Routledge. 2009
• Presentation and Showcase: RediscOvery, Exhibited in Titanic’s Dock and Pumphouse, Belfast, 24th September
2009, Northern Ireland Science Park 25K Competition “The search for the next big thing” (with Adrian Hickey
and Rowan Morrey)
Business Report: RediscOvery, submitted to Northern Ireland Science Park 25K Competition “The search for
the next big thing” (with Adrian Hickey and Rowan Morrey)
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• Exhibition 1: Inside Stories, Memories from the Maze and Long Kesh, Installation at Naughton Gallery, Belfast,
November 2008 and Belfast Prison 28-30 March 2009
• Collaborative Ethics in Practice-as-Research, by Christopher Bannerman and Cahal McLaughlin in (eds)
Allegue et al, Practice-As-Research: in Performance and Screen, Palgrave, 2009
• Chapter: Cold, Hungry and Scared: Prison Films about the ‘Troubles’, Ireland in Focus: Film Photography
and Popular Culture, Eoin Flannery and Michael Griffin, Syracuse University Press, New York, pp 35-53,
-13:978-0-8156-3203-0, 2009
• Article: Collaborative Ethics in Practice-as-Research, Allegue et al, Practice-As-Research: In Performance and
Screen, Palgrave, 2009
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• “Balance,” pg. 291-295. The International Encyclopaedia of Communication (ed. Donsbach), Volume 2,
Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford, UK and Malden, MA), 2008.
• ‘Refugees, Migrants and the Fall of the Berlin Wall’, republished in J. Scott (Ed.) Documentary Research, Vol.3:
Published Sources, Mass Media and Cyber Documents (London: Sage).
• (with Stephen Baker) ‘The Media, Terrorism and Northern Ireland: Changing Images, Changing Frameworks’,
published online by the Centre for Conflict Resolution Journalism. http://www.ccrj.org/13207/13901.html
• (with Stephen Baker) ‘House training the paramilitaries: The media and the propaganda of peace’ in C.Coulter
and M.Murray (Eds.) Northern Ireland After the Troubles. A Society in Transition. (Manchester; Manchester
University Press); pp.253-271. 2008
• ‘Changing Hearts and Minds: Television, the paramilitaries and the peace process’ in J.Popiolkowski and N.Cull
(Eds.) Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Track Two to Peace (USC
Annenberg/Figueroa Press); pp.31-44. 2009
McLoone M
• Film, Media and Popular Culture in Ireland. Irish Academic Press, pp 1-256. ISBN 9780716529361, 2008
• Internal Decolonisation British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe. In British Cinema Book. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.
350-356, ISBN 9781844572755. 2008
• Settling Old Scores Religion, Secularisation and Recent Irish Cinema. In Multiculturalism at the Start of the 21 st
Century, Lodz University Press, Poland, pp 105-116. ISBN 978-83-7525-143-2. 2008
• Pamphlet - Film, Television and the Troubles. A Troubles Archive Essay, Published in the Arts Council of N
Ireland, e-mail m.hendry@artscouncil-ni.org; ISBN 0-903203-13-8, 978-0-903203-13-5. June 2009
• Chapter - National Cinema and Global Culture: The Case of Ireland, Cinemas of Ireland, published in Isabelle le
Corff and Estelle Epinoux, pp 14-28; ISBN (10) 1-4438-0240-0, ISBN (13) 978-1-4438-02406; www.c-s-p.org.
2009
MESSENGER DAVIES
• ‘What planet are we on Television drama’s relationship with social reality’ in Richard Howells and Robert W.
Matson (eds.), Using Visual Evidence, Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press/McGraw Hill, pp 153 –
169. 2009
• ‘Children, news media and citizenship: a study with 9-15 year olds in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
England’, in Pettersen, J. (Ed.) (2008). Youth Media Democracy; perspectives on new media literacy CSER - DIT.
Dublin, pp 57-63. 2009
• Mendes, K, Carter, C and Messenger Davies, M.) ‘Children’s news for children as citizens’ in Allan, S. (ed) (2009)
The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism Studies. London and New York: Routledge, pp 450-459
• ‘Fair and balanced reporting’: children, news and the case of Northern Ireland, Journal of Children and Media, Vol.
2, No. 3, pp 305–310, ISSN 1748-2798. 2008
• ‘Reality and fantasy in children’s relationship with the media’ in Livingstone, S and Drotner, K. (eds.) The
International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture, London: Sage, pp 121 – 136. 2008
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• ‘And what good came of it at last: Ethos, style and sense of audience in the reporting of war in children’s
news programmes’ in Lemish, D. and Goetz, M. (eds.), Children and media in times of war and conflict, Cresskill
NJ: Hampton, pp 163-176. 2008
• Children, news media and citizenship: a study with 9-15 year olds in Northern Ireland, Scotland Wales and
England. In Youth Media Democracy; perspectives on new media literacy, pp 57-63. CSER – DIT, Dublin, 57-63.
2008
• PUBLISHED RESEARCH REPORT
Carter, C., Messenger Davies, M., Allan, S., Mendes, K., Milani, R. and Wass, L. (2009), What do children want
from the BBCChildren’s content and participatory environments in an age of citizen media, AHRC/BBC, Cardiff
University, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange/cardifftwo.pdf
PORTER
• ‘Forget Habermas’ Variant, 33 (Winter 2008), 12-15.
• ‘Ideology’, in The Encyclopaedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Benvir, London: Sage, 2009
• BOOK
Deleuze and Guattari: Aesthetics and Politics, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2009
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6. Research FUNDING
Staff Name(s) Title of Award Funding Body Value
Messenger Davies ‘What Do Children Want from the BBC AHRC/BBC knowledge £74,000
Children’s Content and Participatory transfer, with Cardiff
Environments in an Age of Citizen Media’ and Bournemouth
(ongoing from 2007-8)
Universities
‘Children, Media and Culture’ 2008- 9 AHRC Research £32,276
Leave Scheme
AHRC/BBC Knowledge infusion – AHRC £2,127
What do children want from the BBC
Children’s content and participatory
environments in an age of citizen media,
2008-9
Baylis The Irish Digital Photograph Project Royal Irish Academy Award of
€1,500 to
allow for
research
at New York
Public
Library &
NYPLDigital
Division,
15-21 June,
‘08.
Edge NI Skillset Media Academy Northern Ireland Screen £10,000
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7. INDICATORS OF ESTEEM
Baylis
Influence:
• Member of the Research Concordat Steering Group,
• UU Associate member HEA
• Associate member ADC_LTSN, H.Ed. Assoc
Benefit:
• Award of €1500 from RIA for research trip to New York
Edge
Influence:
• External Examiner. BSC (Hons) Media Communication and BA (Hons) Screen Studies and Cultural Studies
and Creative Industries, University of East London
• Member of the Northern Ireland Sector Skills Panel, the regional section of Skillset (The National Training
Organisation for broadcast, film, video and multimedia)
• Acted as Skills and Education Advisor for Invest NI Digital Content Strategy
• A Member of Media and Communications Reference Group: Art Design Media Subject Centre: Higher
Education Academy
• Peer Reviewer for Photographies
• Peer Reviewer for Open University Press
• Peer Reviewer for Scope Journal of Film
• Member of the Jury, Jameson Irish Shorts, Belfast Film Festival
• Member of the Jury, Irish Shorts, Foyle Film Festival, Derry
Benefit:
• £10,000 from Northern Ireland Screen for the Skillset Academy
Ekins
Recognition:
• Invited paper: ‘From the Chevalier D’Eon to “Alice in Genderland”: Doing Trans Autobiography’, 22nd
International Foundation for Gender Education Inc (IFGE), on ‘Towards a Greater Diversity’, 31 st March – 5 th
April, 2008, Tucson, Arizona, Annual Conference, USA.
Influence:
• Membership of International Academy of Sex Research. This is the most prestigious academy in the research
domain of sexology. The election was as ‘outstanding scientist’ with an ‘enduring reputation’ in the field of sex
research.
• Book (with Dave King) The Transgender Phenomenon - won the CHOICE MAGAZINE Outstanding Academic
Title for 2007
• Invited book cover blurb endorsement for Richard F. Docter, Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine
Jorgensen, New York: Haworth/Taylor and Francis, 2008.
Editorial Board Membership of International Journals
• Sexualities: A Journal of Culture and Society (Sage)
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Leadership of National or International Committees Associated with Research
• Social Research Panel, Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES)
Leadership of Collaborations with National or International Centres of Excellence in Research
• ‘Transgendering’ with Dr Dave King, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK
[In relation to my co-authorships with Dr Dave King]
• International Journal of Transgenderism, in association with Prof. Walter Bockting, Program in Human Sexuality
University of Minnesota, USA, and Dr Dave King, as above
• ‘Early Jazz and the New Orleans Jazz Revival, 1896-1972’, in association with Dr Bruce Raeburn, Hogan Jazz
Archive, Tulane University, New Orleans, La., USA.
• ‘Early Jazz and the New Orleans Jazz Revival, 1896-1972, in association with National Jazz Archive, Loughton,
Essex, UK (David Nathan: Archivist)
• Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, London, UK (Dan Pawson Project – part of ‘Early Jazz and the New
Orleans Jazz Revival’ project)
• ‘Pitch Monitoring and Rectification in New Orleans Music’, in association with Dave Senior, musician and
audio engineer, Antwerp, Belgium
Research Collaboration with Industry or Commerce
• 504 Records, London, UK in relation to recording engineering, tape re-mastering and transfer to DAT, transfer
to CD, cutting and digital mastering, design, photographs, graphics & art, co-production, distribution and sales.
Jackson
Influence:
• Contributor to Learn.co.uk from, The Guardian, in the development of online curriculum based content.
• December 08
Member on the peer Review Panel for the ISEA 09 International Symposium on Electronic Art
• December 09
Peer Reviewer for Journal for Media Practice
Benefit:
• June 08
Secured funding from the Bank of Ireland to develop and co-ordinate YouDo Media – a residential workshop
in creative digital production at School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster’s Coleraine
Campus.
• May 2009
Participant in AHRC and BBC co-funded knowledge exchange project, bringing together academics and BBC
staff to invent and imagine what a public service virtual environment might facilitate and what form it might
take. The AHRC/BBC project, Audience and Producer Engagement with Immersive Worlds is led by the
University of Westminster, under Principal Investigator, Prof David Gauntlett.
• June 2009
Entrepreneur Competition ‘NISP 25K Award”, Top Ten Finalist
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McLAUGHLIN C
Recognition:
• ‘Memory and Place’ paper, MeCCSA Annual Conference, 9-11 January, 2008, Cardiff University.
• ‘Political Narratives and Social Change’ paper, International Society of Political Psychology 31st Annual
Conference, 9-12 July, Sciences Po, Paris.
• ‘Practice Research – a case study’, AVPhD April Fools Seminar, 1 April, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Influence:
• Director, ‘Prisons Memory Archive’, a Heritage Lottery Fund granted project whose aim is to record
memories from the North of Ireland’s ‘Troubles’ prisons - www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com.
• Chair of the Editorial Board, Journal of Media Practice;
• Member of the Board of the AHRC-funded Audio Visual PhD Network www.avphd.gold.ac.uk;
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Influence:
• Peer reviewer for Journalism Studies
• Peer reviewer for ESRC
• Board member, Irish Media Research Network (IMRN)
McLOONE
Recognition:
• Keynote address: ‘Catholicism and Popular Culture Conference’, IADT, Dun Laoghaire, June 19th, 2009
• Keynote address: ‘Art and Revolution’: Institute of Irish Studies Symposium, University of London, June 20th,
2009
• Public Lecture: ‘30 Years of Film, Television and the Troubles in NI’, Queens Film Theatre, Belfast, June 27th,
2009.
Influence:
• Member, editorial Advisory Board, Vertigo (The Magazine for Independent Film and Video)
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Film and Film Culture
• Member, Peer Review College, AHRC.
• External Examiner, PhD viva, University of Warwick
• External Advisor, Broadcasting Council of Ireland
• External Examiner, MPhil in Film Theory and History, Trinity College, Dublin.
MESSENGER DAVIES
Recognition:
• ‘Sex and censorship: the needs and rights of children’. Presentation to: ‘Sex and Censorship’ conference,
University of Ulster Law School, Belfast, 28 th February 2008
• Participant in panel on ‘The future of television studies’ SCMS conference, Philadelphia, USA, 8 th March 2008
• ‘Archiving Television’, presentation to National Collaborative Doctoral Training Scheme in Using Moving Image
Archives in Academic Research, Second Training Session, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham, 6 th April 2008.
• Presentation on children’s responses to news, and panel member, Irish Youth Media Conference, DIT, Dublin,
18 th April, 2008.
• Panel presentation ‘Newsround today and tomorrow’, conference on ‘News for young people in an age of digital
media’, funded by the BBC/AHRC Knowledge Exchange Programme, BBC, White City, London, 24 th June, 2008
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• Keynote Opening Address - to Conference on ‘Making Television for Young Children: Future Prospects and
Issues’, University of Westminster/AHRC, 12 September, 2008
• ‘Children, Media and Citizenship, Presentation to interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Children and
Young People, University of Ulster, October 24th 2008
• “Screen Adaptation: authenticity and audience” panel presentation to CONNECTIONS: Children’s Literature
and Culture: 1 st All-Ireland Symposium of The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature (ISSCL)
Queen’s University, Belfast, November 22, 2008
• ‘Trends in children’s media’, invited presentation to BBC Management Training Seminar, ‘The outlook for
children’s media’, BBC Management Conference Centre, London, February 6 th , 2009
• History from the bottom up: archiving television: Two case studies, presentation to MIT6 Conference ‘Stone
and Papyrus: Storage and Transmission’, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 25 th 2009, http://web.mit.
edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Davies.pdf
• The Cultural impact of UK Film: Questions and Evidence’, invited presentation to UK Film Council seminar on
The Cultural Impact of UK Film, LSE, 27th November, 2009
Work for research councils and national bodies
• Peer reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation;
• Peer reviewer the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and has been
• invited to be a peer reviewer by the AHRC;
• A member of Panel O, sub-panel 66, for RAE 2008
• Executive Committee Member of MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association) from
2002 onwards
• Co-ordinator Meccsa Policy Network
Influence:
• Member steering committee of the AHRC postgraduate training programme, ‘Using Moving Image Archives in
Academic Research’
• Board Member – Voice of Listener and Viewer
• Member editorial board, Critical Studies in Television
• Member editorial board, Journal of Children and Media
• Member editorial board, Participations
• External examiner, BA in Media Studies, Ballyfermot College, Dublin City University
Benefit:
• With collaborators at the BBC, Cardiff University and Bournemouth University received an AHRC/
BBC Knowledge Transfer award of £74,786 in May 2007 to study ‘Children’s Content and Participatory
Environments in an Age of Citizen Media’ continuing from 2007-8
• Knowledge Infusion Programme (KIP) follow-up to this study, £2,137
• 2008-9 AHRC Funded Research Leave, £33,372
MURPHY (COLM)
Recognition:
• ‘Freedom of Information and the Media; the case of
Northern Ireland’, Chartered Institute of Company Secretaries information law seminar, April, 2008, Belfast.
Influence:
• Chief adviser in the selection of The Sunday Times Irish University of the Year (excludes Northern Ireland)
and The Sunday Times Irish Institute of Technology of the Year. These are the premier annual awards for
recognising excellence in the Republic of Ireland’s tertiary-level education system.
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Benefit:
• Won after competitive tender European Social Fund finance for five
scholarships worth in total £37,000 for students to complete MA in Journalism.
PORTER (ROBERT)
Recognition:
• Speaker at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) conference at Brunel University
in June 2009
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