Subject Leader- Television Production
National Teaching Fellow
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Andrew Ireland Subject Leader- Television Production National Teaching Fellow |
Andrew Ireland is the Subject Leader for Television Production at The Media School.
He designed and leads the Editing pathway of the Masters programme MA Post Production. He also coordinates the first year of the BA (Hons) Television Production degree at undergraduate level. He teaches “film style” single camera production for drama and documentary, with an emphasis on post production.
At a national level, he is a key figure in the development of group work and assessment. He has been project manager of a government funded four-year project that aimed to disseminate good practice in group work with an emphasis on the media production discipline. He designed and maintains the website for the project that is being used as a model for future funded projects of this type to follow. He has written papers contributing towards a teaching resource pack that is freely distributed across the sector to institutions teaching media production, and is also available on the Group Work and Assessment in Media Production website. This group-working project has led to a further development, a web-based tool for peer and self assessment that is currently in development.
In 2004 Andrew was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in the “Rising Stars” category. The award has led to a large-scale television production project which has formed the basis of a DVD teaching resource pack supported by a range of web-based learning resources.
Before working for Bournemouth University Andrew worked for ITV (Independent Television) at Meridian Broadcasting. There he took on the job as Assistant Producer for a children's programme called Summer Breakout where his role included directing live broadcasts and writing short sketches.
He went on to become a Post Production Editor in the facilities department where he edited a large number of programmes for ITV, the BBC and Sky. This experience as an editor has greatly informed his production practice which is reflected in the curriculum for the Masters programme in Editing.
At Bournemouth University Andrew has also worked as a demonstrator, teaching technical operation of video production equipment. He has also production managed, directed and edited a large number of commercial films for the University's production company, Red Balloon.
Andrew is personally interested in short film production and has made many shorts and one feature length film which he wrote and co-directed which has received some exposure in the media. In 2004 he directed a music video that had exposure on BBC1, MTV and The Box. He is pleased that his profession allows him to teach in the area that is also his hobby.
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Professor Barry Richards Professor of Public Communication |
Barry Richards has been Professor of Public Communication in the The Media School since September 2001.
He is Director of the Centre for Public Communication Research, and Head of Research in the Corporate and Marketing Communications Group of The Media School.
Prior to his arrival in Bournemouth, he was Professor of Human Relations at the University of East London. He had lectured in the social sciences at UEL and its predecessor institutions since 1977, developing East London's innovative programmes in psychosocial studies and psychoanalytic studies, and been Acting Head of the Department of Sociology there before heading the multi-disciplinary Department of Human Relations from 1996 to 2001. Prior to entering academia, he had trained and worked as a clinical psychologist in the National Health Service.
As a psychologist who subsequently trained in sociology (his PhD in 1984 was in the sociology of knowledge), he is primarily interested in research and theory which integrates psychological and societal frames of reference.
In the 1990s he developed psychosocial approaches to the study of various forms of public communication, particularly marketing and political communications, both in academic research and in market and consumer research. He co-founded the UEL Centre for Consumer and Advertising Studies, where the advertising research reported in The Dynamics of Advertising (Richards et al., 2000) was conducted. Amongst his earlier books are Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture (1994) and Images of Freud (1989).
He is now studying the implications of changes in social and cultural values for communication strategies, and the dynamics of public opinion in relation to the media. Of particular interest in this work at present are the contributions from government and the media themselves to public discourse around terrorism and social cohesion.
Barry is an experienced monitor of the British brewing industry, and a supporter of Cardiff City.
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Roman Gerodimos Lecturer in Communication & Journalism Theory |
Roman Gerodimos is a Lecturer in Communication and Journalism Theory at The Media School.
He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on the internet as a means of youth civic engagement in the global public sphere.
Since the commencement of his doctoral research in 2002, Gerodimos has presented papers in more than 20 international conferences in Europe and the United States and has published in leading periodicals. His main areas of expertise are: political communication; cyberculture and activism; crisis governance; British, European and US government and politics; international relations and international law. He also serves as a referee for international academic journals (New Media & Society, Public Administration, Political Studies, Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics).
Roman is founder and convenor of the Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) of the UK’s Political Studies Association (PSA). With a membership of 120 leading and graduate scholars, the GPSG is one of the biggest and most active specialist groups of the PSA, with an exciting portfolio of activities, such as conference panels and thematic networks. For the last two years he has also served as Communications Officer of the PSA’s Graduate Network (PGN).
Upon his arrival at Bournemouth, Roman took a leading role in the establishment of the Centre for Public Communication Research (CPCR) within The Media School and since 2003 he has organised and moderated 10 research events, seminars and roundtables with guest speakers from around the country.
Roman teaches in the BA (Hons) in Multi-Media Journalism and the BA (Hons) in Communication and Media, where he is also Level C Tutor. He is leading two undergraduate units (Media and Society; Media: Messages and Meanings) examining the political, social and cultural aspects of mass communication. During the last four years he has also supervised 60 undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
Before moving to Bournemouth, Roman received a Master of Science in European Politics and Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also worked as a Research Assistant on the Government on the Web 2 project. Before coming to the UK, he took his first degree in International and European Studies at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, where he also worked as Research Assistant on security issues in the Mediterranean Sea.
Roman has a big interest in film and music, as well as writing. His blog, Me Against the Keyboard, has attracted widespread praise and attention. His work and writings have featured in various national and local media outlets, both in the UK (BBC Radio Five Live, Times Higher Education Supplement, Press Gazette, 2CRfm, Dorset Echo) and in Greece (Ta Nea, Nitro Radio).