Centre for Media Research
The Centre's international group of full-time staff and the associated project leaders from the host School bring not only their expertise to the CMR's programme but also a network of international collaborators, making the CMR a junction through which many people and ideas are flowing.
Individual staff maintain their own information here (see links on the right).
Dr Gail Baylis is a Research Associate (History of Photography) in the CMR.
Dr Baylis (Photographic history in Ireland and Wales; issues of gender and visual culture.) has written on domestic photography with Sarah Edge, has a forthcoming essay in 'Visual Culture in Britain' on photographs of nineteenth-century Welsh women ironworkers (Nov. 2006) and a forthcoming essay in 'Rethinking Diasporas' on the photography and cultural memory. She is a Research Associate for the Hisory of Photography Strand at the Centre for Media Research, investigating material for the archive. Her work on photographic archives also stresses the role of the digital archive and secondary reproduction in relation to the construction of cultural memory and ideas of identity.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70323363 |
| Email: | g.baylis@ulster.ac.uk |
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Irish film and video, media practice as research.
Director of Mother Ireland (1988) and Limbo (2002) (winner of the Best Irish Short Film Award at the Foyle Film Festival). Current research interests include Irish-language production and the use of video in oral history.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70324705 |
| Email: | am.crilly@ulster.ac.uk |
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Head of School for the School of Media, Film & Journalism at the University of Ulster, Sarah is also a member of the CMR working specifically on early Irish photography in the Centre's 'visual history' project.
Dr. Sarah Edge's research has been widely published. She is a practising art photographer and her most recent work Photography and the Self can be seen in CIRCA (Vol. 90 1999).
Sarah's theory/practice based PhD (2005) was on the urban photographic collection of Arthur J Munby (1860-1865). The accompanying practice/photographic component was shown in her one-person show held in the Context Gallery in Derry City (January 15 - February 5 2005).
An interactive web project based on the Arthur J Munby collection, funded by the AHRB, is accessible from this website.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70324176 |
| Email: | sj.edge@ulster.ac.uk |
| Web: | Arthur Munby- Net Art Project |
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies
A former New Orleans-style jazz musician and record producer who joined the University of Ulster as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in 1984. He was Senior Lecturer in Psychology from 1995-1999; Reader in Sociology from 1999-2002; Reader in Cultural and Media Studies from 2002-2006; and he became Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies in September 2006. He has directed The Transgender Archive, University of Ulster, since 1986. Latterly, he has returned to record production and is currently working on a series of New Orleans jazz revival CDs for 504/La Croix Records.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70323200 |
| Email: | rjm.ekins@ulster.ac.uk |
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Lecturer in Interactive Media
Helen Jackson is a Lecturer in working in the CMR, with specific responsibility to teaching on the undergraduate Media Arts programme; developing students' knowledge and competences necessary to engage in new forms of social and cultural inquiry using new media tools.
Her main research interests lie in the practice based examination of the interface
between artists and technology; the development of narrative in new media
through hypertext fictions; and strategy and regulation for the digital age.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70324184 |
| Email: | h.jackson@ulster.ac.uk |
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
Cahal is documentary filmmaker and lecturer. He has directed and produced documentaries for broadcast and community groups and began his academic career in 1997 at Royal Holloway University of London, where he ran the successful Masters in Documentary by Practice. He joined the University of Ulster in April 2006 and is currently Course Director of B.A. Media Studies.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70324018 |
| Email: | c.mclaughlin2@ulster.ac.uk |
| Web: | Prisons Memory Archive |
Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
Dr McLaughlin is Subject Director of the Faculty's Combined Arts programme in Journalism and Publishing Studies, and is currently external examiner for the new Media and Marketing degree at Dublin Business School. His special research focus is on issues of journalism and conflict in local and international contexts. His book, The War Correspondent, was published in 2002 by Pluto Press.
Greg is a research consultant on media-related matters for the Northern Ireland section of the ESRC's Devolution Monitoring Programme. He is currently researching and writing with Dr Steve Baker on questions of media, democracy and globalisation in relation to the politics of the peace process in Northern Ireland.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70324132 |
| Email: | g.mclaughlin@ulster.ac.uk |
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Professor of Media Studies and head of the Centre's research strand on the history of film, television and photography in Ireland.
Martin has written extensively on many aspects of the media in Ireland and Britain and has been responsible for much of the pioneering research on media history and analysis in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Martin also initiated and helped to organise Re-imagining Ireland, one of the largest and most comprehensive celebrations and explorations of Irish cultural identity, hosted by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and held in Charlottesville in May 2003
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70324372 |
| Email: | m.mcloone@ulster.ac.uk |
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Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Media Research & project leader for the Policty strand of the CMR
A former journalist, with a PhD in psychology, she has worked in universities on both sides of the Atlantic. She has a special research interest in the media and the young. She has conducted funded research on aspects of media policy for a number of organizations including UNESCO, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the BBC, the British Academy, and the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
A lifelong television fan, she is currently writing a book for the University of California Press on American television, using Star Trek as a case study, with Professor Roberta Pearson of Nottingham University.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70324069 |
| Email: | m.messenger-davies@ulster.ac.uk |
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Subject Leader in Media, Film and Journalism
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70323130 |
| Email: | c.murphy@ulster.ac.uk |
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Lecturer within the Media Studies Research Institute
Robert Porter was appointed as a researcher in Media Studies in November 2003, and then to a lectureship in The Media Studies Research Institute in November 2005.
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70324974 |
| Email: | r.porter@ulster.ac.uk |
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Support Assistant (Special Projects including CMR)
| Tel: | +44 (0)28 70323361 |
| Email: | s.quinn@ulster.ac.uk |
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