Biographies
Feona Attwood
Feona Attwood is Principal Lecturer in Media at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Her research is in the general area of gender, sex, technology, the body and 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 Journal of Gender Studies and book chapters on pornography, sexual agency and research methods.
She is currently editing a collection on online pornography and a journal special issue on researching and teaching sexually explicit media.
The Sexualisation Of Culture?Emily Bell
Emily has worked for the Observer and then the Guardian for the past eighteen years, setting up mediaguardian.co.uk in 2000 and becoming Editor-in-Chief of Guardian Unlimited in 2001. In September 2006, Emily was promoted to the new position of Director of Digital Content for Guardian News and Media. Guardian.co.uk, the Guardian and Observer’s network of websites, has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Webby for Best Newspaper on the web in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009.
Emily writes a regular column for the Guardian about media policy issues and also for Broadcast magazine. She lives in Finsbury Park with her husband and three children.
Kaye Elling
Kaye Elling is the recently appointed Lecturer in Computer Games at Bradford University, where she teaches game graphics and design at undergraduate and post graduate level, as well as actively campaigning for the recruitment of more women into technology and media careers.
Kaye has more than twelve years of experience in the games industry and has worked on a diverse range of titles from Colony Wars: Red Sun and the Premier Manager series to her recent work on the Bratz series where she was listed as one of the Hot 100 Game Developers of 2007 by Edge Online. She has a passionate interest in the portrayal of women in computer games, is on the Women In Games steering committee and has spoken on various occasions on the subjects of gender-inclusive game design and careers in media, with the specific aim of encouraging women to consider careers in the games industry.
Viviana Fain-Binda
Born in Argentina, Viviana Fain-Binda started in the entertainment business playing a nun in a Chinese film. From there she moved into film production working with Judd Bernard, producer of Point Blank.
She then went into TV and worked on World About Us, The ‘Lowdown, Storm from the East and Whicker’s World amongst others in a career at the BBC that span 15 years. During this time she developed her idea 'Childwatch’ which eventually became Childline. At the same time she campaigned to set up the BBC nursery.
Since the 90s a move to freelance journalism saw her work for Latin-American news, Channel 4, Channel 4 Learning’s website, Terzo Pianeta RAI TV and radio programmes for the World Service. Her work on Changing China and The Lowdown became part of museum exhibitions.
She is now promoting a video that obtained a Millennium Award. It is called ‘Life with Two Hats’ and deals with the care of a loved one with Alzheimer’s. She is also researching a script on a Chinese theme.
A graduate of SOAS, Viviana speaks 6 languages and writes and lectures.
Rosalind Gill
Rosalind Gill is an academic, broadcaster and public intellectual. She is interested in gender, media, and new technologies, as well as in the way that creative work is changing. She is author of numerous books and articles, including Gender and the Media (Polity press, 2006), and New Femininities? (Palgrave, in press). She is currently doing research on young people and sexualised culture, and on changing conditions within (new) media work. From January 2010 she will be Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis in the Department for Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College, London.
The Sexualisation Of Culture?Sunny Hundal
Sunny Hundal is editor of the group blog/magazine Liberal Conspiracy, which aims to reinvigorate British left liberalism through online campaigning and discussion. He also blogs at Pickled Politics.
As a journalist and commentator, he has written for the Guardian, the Independent, Metro, The Times and the Financial Times on media, the environment and race relations. He founded the thinktank New Generation Network, which aims to challenge the thinking around race and faith politics, and is editor of the online magazine Asians in Media.
In 2006 he was voted Guardian blogger of the year. An ardent environmentalist and an unashamed lefty-liberal, he is vegetarian and cares strongly about the oppression of people and degradation of nature.
Tracey Jensen
Jensen is a doctoral student at the Open University, where she is currently working on her PhD. Her work explores the intersections of gender and social class in contemporary parenting culture. She is particularly interested in the ways in which good mothering is visualised in television therapy programmes and in wider media, and the effects this has in debates around social inclusion. She has written for a number of international journals and has contributed to Standing Up to Supernanny (2009, Polity Press)
Neeta Madahar
Neeta Madahar is the 2008-2009 Bradford Fellow in Photography. The Bradford Fellowship is a prestigious award given to active mid-career photographers with consistently high levels of achievement. Her previous awards have included a full graduate scholarship to study a Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston, America from 2000-2003, and nomination for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize in 2005.
Neeta has exhibited in Europe and America at venues including the Institute of International Visual Arts, London, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, and the Recontres d’Arles Photography Festival in France.
My Career In MediaSteven McDermott
Steven McDermott is currently a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds and has a B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy and Sociology, an M.A. in Philosophy and Social Theory and a Master of Research in Social Research. His research explores the socio-political dimensions of the Internet and other technologies, using Social Network Analysis, Semantic Network Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. He was awarded a Research Student Scholarship in 2008 and is currently the Research Assistant on the Socialisation of the Global Sexually Explicit Imagery: Challenges to Policy and Research Project. Also commissioned in 2009 as an external independent reviewer on the ‘Papadopoulos Review of the Sexualisation of Young People’ to be submitted to the Home Office.
The Sexualisation Of Culture?Rachel Millward
Rachel co-founded Birds Eye View as a touring short film event in 2002, motivated by the statistic that only 7% filmmakers are women. She has since led the organisation to become the high profile national arts charity it is today.
Rachel heads up company development, from regional touring events and educational programmes, to innovative new projects like BEV Labs (Last Laugh) and the First Weekenders Club, designed to take Birds Eye View - and with it the best women filmmaking talent - to the widest possible audience.
Rachel graduated in Theology from Oxford University in 1999 and then took postgraduate studies at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. Before focusing solely on Birds Eye View, she worked as a researcher for independent television and radio production companies.
Rachel has written for the New Statesman, the Financial Times Magazine and the Guardian on women in film, and on the media representation of people with disabilities. She also writes regularly for the Guardian Arts Blog about women filmmakers. Rachel was nominated a “world changing woman” by the Guardian in August 2006. She has recently been awarded the Clore Leadership Fellowship for Film 2009-2010.
Liz Molyneux
Liz Molyneux is currently working as Business Development Lead for BBC North as the corporation prepares to move five-London based departments, and those already established at Oxford Road, to Media City at Salford. Media City is Europe’s first purpose built centre for the creative and media industries and will eventually house 2,500 staff from BBC. Previously Liz was the Executive Producer and head of the Network Current affairs dept in Manchester, delivering a whole range of high quality Current Affairs TV from Panorama to The One Show.
Previously Liz has worked as an exec, series producer and director of factual programmes from undercover investigations to travel series. She has also worked as an exec within BBC Factual Commissioning dept.
My Career In MediaJoanna Quinn
Joanna Quinn is an award winning animator. Her company, Beryl Productions International Ltd, operates from Cardiff and has produced several films as well as advertising campaigns for products such as Charmin and Whiskas.
Joanna completed her first film in 1987 and entered it into the Annecy International Film Animation Festival, where it won three awards. Since then she has gained recognition from many of the major animation festivals, and had two of her films Oscar nominated (Famous Fred, 1996 and The Wife of Bath, 1998). She has also gained several BAFTAs, Emmys and British Animation Awards to name but a few.
My Career In MediaGillian Reynolds
Gillian Reynolds is the award-winning radio critic and columnist of the Daily Telegraph. Before that she was the founding Programme Controller of Liverpool's first commercial radio station, Radio City (1974–5) and, before that, was the radio critic of The Guardian (1967-74).
A regular broadcaster on radio and television since 1964, she was made the first Fellow of the Radio Academy in 1990 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1996. Chairman of the Trustees of the Charles Parker Archive at the Central Library in Birmingham since 1987, she became an Associate Trustee of NMeM this year. She served on the Arts Council of England's Film, Video and TV panel for six years, the last three as its Vice Chairman. A member of the British Library's Sound Archive Consultative Council from 1997 to 2002, she helped form a successful new policy on the Archive's CD sales.
She has been a judge for the Booker Prize, the BAFTA awards, the Royal Television Society Awards and the Sony Radio Awards, serving as the chairman of the Sonys for four years.
Born in Liverpool and educated at the city's state schools, she read English at St. Anne's College, Oxford and is an Honorary Fellow of the college. After Oxford she undertook graduate studies at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, USA and was a recipient of its Distinguished European Alumnae Award.
She is also an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and a visiting Fellow of Bournemouth University Media School. She has three sons, one M.A granddaughter and at last count 22 radios, one of them clockwork, five digital.
Jessica Ringrose
Jessica Ringrose is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her current research explores postfeminist discourses of compulsory sexualization and pornification and how teen girls’ negotiate these online and at school. She has written numerous articles on teen femininities and heterosexualized aggression, bullying and cyber-bullying, appearing in: Feminism and Psychology, Feminist Theory, Girlhood Studies, British Journal of Sociology of Education, and Educational Philosophy and Theory. Her writing exploring neo-liberal, postfeminist educational and media contexts can be found in Gender and Education and Feminist Media Studies. Jessica’s new book, Postfeminist Education? Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling (Routledge), will be out 2010.
The Sexualisation Of Culture?Karen Ross
Karen is Professor of Media and Public Communication at the University of Liverpool. She teaches political communication and gender/media. She was Visiting Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Massey University (2007 and 2009) and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics at Queens University Belfast (2001-2004)
She has written extensively on the relationship between women, politics and media, and the media and the public. She has written or edited 14 books and written numerous journal articles and conference papers. She is the foundational editor of a new Blackwell journal, Communication, Culture and Critique which launched in March 2008.
Marcia Worrell
Marcia Worrell is currently a Principal Lecturer at Roehampton University where she is in charge of undergraduate programmes in Psychology. Marcia has conducted research on the construction of children’s rights and entitlements, child sexual abuse, paedophilia and the sexualisation of children in media outputs. More recently her work has focussed on children and young people’s sexual health. Marcia has long standing links in the voluntary sector and in 1995 Chaired the Board of the Children’s Legal Centre. She is currently a serving member of the British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Women Section (POWs) and is involved in organising the POWs annual conference at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.
The Sexualisation Of Culture?Nicola Corp
Nicola Corp's media career straddled both the commercial and editorial/production sides of the business. After a spell in advertising at News International then Mirror Group Newspapers, she moved into marketing at LWT before moving into programme making She ran ITV's Telethon for LWT and Thames TV before joining Capital Radio to run their on-air broadcast appeal, then headed up the group's social action portfolio.
Following a move to the newly launched Channel 5 to set up and run their inaugural social action campaign, she moved into factual and feature programme making, working variously at Thames TV, Lion TV and the BBC as producer, writer and script editor.
She returned to her home county in 2005 to join the National Media Museum, leaving two years ago to set up her own event management and production company.
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