Staff research interests
Our staff have a dynamic range of interests. Following you will find a quick guide to their interests - check their staff pages for more detailed information.
| Art, sculpture, museum studies | Cameron Cartiere’s research interests include public art, urban renewal, sculpture parks, cultural heritage, museum studies and curatorial practice. Dr. Cartiere is co-director of the Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice. |
| Film studies |
Professor Mary Wood’s research is mainly in the area of Italian cinema, most recently on Italian film noir. She also writes on contemporary European cinema and the film and media industries. |
| Gender and sexuality | Jonathan D Mackintosh's interests are in modern social and cultural history and include gender/sexuality with a specialisation in masculinities in Japan and East Asia. In his most recent research he focuses on the social, material, and cultural history of the Japanese in mid-twentieth century North America. |
| History |
Ben Cranfield works on areas of post-war cultural history and contemporary visual culture. His recent work has focused on the institutional history of the arts in postwar Britain and the rise of experimental and curatorial practices. |
| Media, politics and cities |
Scott Rodgers' research interests lie in media, politics and cities; journalism practices and new media technologies, geographies of media; theories of practice and materiality. |
| Social resistance | Isabelle Fremeaux's research interests include creative forms of resistance in social movements, popular education and critical pedagogies, exploring notions of self-determination, non-hierarchical relationships and creative, participatory, un-mediated methodologies of communication. Her work is currently mostly carried through action-research. |
| War reporting | Tim Markham is a political sociologist whose recent work has focused on war reporting and the phenomenology of media production and consumption. Ongoing research investigates the relationship between news consumption and identity, how we recognise authority and authenticity in the media, and the political implications of citizen journalism and blogging. |
