Philip worked for the BBC for over 20 years. Starting as a Studio Cameraman and ending up as an Executive Producer working on large National Events, Phil has a wide skill base in and experience of both technical operations and production across most genres. Not only has Phil worked in most BBC centres but he also has extensive experience of worldwide location production.

• Email: philip.thickett@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: + 44 (0)121 331 5635
• Location: B204a (Perry Barr)

Tim leads research within the Birmingham School of Media. He is a AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellow in New Strategies for Radio and Music Organisations and Director of the AHRC BBC Radio Listeners Online Knowledge Exchange project. He is also Chair of the Radio Studies Network, the lead international body for radio research, and editor of the Radio Journal. His intellectual background is in economics and cultural studies. He obtained his doctorate with an ethnographic study of music radio. His research interests are in the relationships between popular music, music radio and urban culture, as well as media education. He teaches undergraduate programmes in these areas as well as supervising doctoral students. He has presented and published widely on these subjects as well as on media employability and media and cultural studies curriculum design.

• Email: tim.wall@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5719
• Location: B213 (Perry Barr)

As head of Externally Funded Projects within the Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham City University, Sara leads a team of 20 staff engaging with businesses from the creative industries in a number of ways. Its latest venture is Notion Studio, which offers expertise in animation and digital video with aim of working with new talent to develop projects which use animation techniques as alternative media, looking at different production processes and exploring its uses in teaching and learning. Sara is a Knowledge Transfer Fellow and has recently developed Masters courses in Media Enterprise and Event and Exhibition Management.

• Email: sara.harris@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 204 9880
• Location: B203 (Perry Barr), office at Screen Media Lab

Paul's background is in editing magazines and editorial website management, and he continues to work as a freelance journalist and consultant with a number of media organisations on their online strategy. His research interests include the impact of digital technologies on the media, and the development of online journalism as a new form. He has contributed to several books about the internet and journalism, and is currently writing a book on online journalism.

Paul is best known for his work as publisher of the Online Journalism Blog, the UK's most popular journalism blog. Posts on the blog have been translated by organisations around the world, and have resulted in invitations to speak in the US, Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, Austria, Brazil and Ukraine. He has been described as "One of the UK's most influential journalism bloggers" by Press Gazette; "A very shrewd commentator" by the BBC's Head of Newsroom; and "the UK's Jeff Jarvis" by the Telegraph's Shane Richmond.

More recently Paul organised the sellout JEEcamp unconferences for journalism entrepreneurs and experimenters - and has won funding from Channel 4 and Screen West Midlands to create Help Me Investigate - a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism.

• Email: paul.bradshaw@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5367
• Location: B322 (Perry Barr)

Bob spent 18 years working for the BBC locally and nationally after beginning his career in newspaper journalism. He still freelances in radio, online and print journalism, including being editor of a quarterly newspaper. In addition to his teaching he is closely involved with the school's Screen Media Lab Project, supporting creative companies in the region and delivers a range of training courses.

• Email: bob.calver@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: + 44 (0)121 331 6866
• Location: B203 (Perry Barr)

Oliver teaches a number of BA theory modules, leading Digital Cultures and the Art of the Film Maker elective module. As well as teaching at Birmingham City University, Oliver has also taught at Birmingham University and taught A Level Media Studies at Baverstock Sports College in Birmingham. He is a member of the school's research team, currently studying towards his PhD on Euro-Cult Cinema fandom and the author of two upcoming books, Broadcasting in Developing Countries and This is Media Studies. He has recently completed research into the economics of the West Midlands music industry and how public funding can be best used to create employment. He has a strong interest in Media Education and the current approaches to teaching Media Studies in schools as well as numerous others. He hopes to publish a book on Italian 'giallo' cinema...one day!

• Email: oliver.carter@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: + 44 (0)1213315469
• Location: B214 (Perry Barr)

Sam Coley has worked extensively in both the New Zealand and British radio industries, specializing in Commercial Production and Documentary making. Before taking up his current position at Birmingham City University, Sam was Creative Director for the Northern Branch of New Zealand's Radio Network, the Southern Hemisphere's largest radio commercial production school. He has been a regular guest lecturer on the subject of radio production and in his spare time runs an online radio station, which promotes unsigned musicians.

• Email: sam.coley@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5469
• Location: B214 (Perry Barr)

Pamela has been a producer/director for the BBC for 28 years and is an experienced programme maker, particularly in live television. She has held senior production roles as series producer and deputy editor. As well as studio-based shows, she has also worked in lifestyle output, children's programmes, entertainment and outside broadcasts. She has also worked extensively as a director/producer on single camera productions. Her last major production as a series producer, was a network documentary series on the life and times of the late Gardeners' World presenter Geoff Hamilton.

• Email: pam.creed@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 6762
• Location: B315 (Perry Barr)

Faye is currently Deputy Course Director for the BA Media and Communication. In addition, she is also Senior Teaching and Learning Fellow for the Faculty of Performance, Media and English and works to develop and share good teaching and learning practice within the faculty.

Faye's main research interests include representations of gender and sexuality, film history and theory, iconography, fandom and the reappropriation of media texts. She is currently undertaking PhD research at Liverpool John Moores University, which focuses on the representation of sexuality in U.S. film and television from 1990 to the present day. Faye has recently been published in Rebecca Beirne's anthology, ‘Televising Queer Women’ with a chapter on, 'Paradigmatically Oppositional Representations: Gender and Sexual Identity in The L Word'. She is also a contributor to ‘Media Studies: Texts, Production and Context’.

• Email: faye.davies@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 7243
• Location: B321 (Perry Barr)

Andrew Dubber is a lecturer and researcher in Music Industries, with a background in record label management and radio broadcast and production. He has produced and released jazz albums and has worked as a remixer and producer on pop and rock projects.

For six years, he produced and presented a weekly nationwide jazz radio programme in New Zealand, and has made award-winning radio documentaries, children's programmes, music programmes and serial drama for radio.

• Email: andrew.dubber@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 6642
• Location: B314A (Perry Barr)

Matt Grimes is the Degree Leader for Music Industries at the Birmingham School of Media. Matt lectures in Music Industries, Popular Music Culture, and radio production. He has worked extensively in the West Midlands as a radio trainer, bringing radio production to marginalised groups such as Romany and Gypsy Travellers, young adults and children in rural areas, community groups, prison inmates and the long term unemployed. Matt is currently studying for an MA in Education researching areas around the use of radio as an educational tool in prisons.

He has also previously worked as an art technician and consultant, a sound engineer and a member of various bands that never “made it”.

• Email: matt.grimes@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 6642
• Location: B314a (Perry Barr)

Sue spent more than 20 years as a working journalist in the print and broadcasting industries. She worked on regional newspapers in Wales and the North of England, including The Star in Sheffield and the Yorkshire Post in Leeds . She has also worked for BBC Radio Sheffield and spent eight years as a TV journalist working mainly for Yorkshire's regional news programme, Calendar, as well as Sky News and Granada TV.

• Email: sue.heseltine@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 7639
• Location: B322 (Perry Barr)

Diane was a reporter /presenter /producer in BBC and commercial radio and in regional and network BBC TV for 11 years. She now teaches radio and television skills on a number of courses within the school. Further afield she is an external examiner at several universities and is a member of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

• Email: diane.kemp@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5478
• Location: B315 (Perry Barr)

Julian has been with the Media School for seven years and also works as a freelance photographer, specialising in reportage, portraiture and lifestyle photography. He has also worked in a diverse range of other photographic fields including music, travel, interior design and product photography.

• Email: julian.kilsby@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 7242
• Location: B204 (Perry Barr)

Over the last 30 years Gerry has been making programmes for corporate and training purposes. He also has worked as a video skills trainer for companies such as Sony. Gerry has been a member of the Royal Television Society since 1980, serving as a centre officer and committee member, and has been the Midland centre's honorary secretary for the last 14 years. He was awarded the Royal Television Society's silver medal in 1997 for his work within the society, especially in the Midlands.

• Email: kerry.gough@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5719 or 5477
• Location: B309 (Perry Barr)

Bethany Klein teaches BA and MA level media theory modules in the school. Her research interests include popular music culture, interactions between cultural and commercial objectives, reality-based TV programming, and the politics of representation.

• Email: bethany.klein@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 7673
• Location: B321 (Perry Barr)

Paul Long teaches a range of theory modules at BA and MA level, including Popular Television, Media Cultures, Film Rhetoric and Reality Media. He gained his PhD in Social History at the University of Warwick, focusing on class and culture in post-war Britain. His research interests include concepts of ordinary life and the everyday, as well as representations of history and the relationship between local life and local media. His published work includes articles on the image and redevelopment of Birmingham and he is currently researching the work of documentary filmmaker Philip Donnellan, the BBC TV series 'Gangsters' and 'unreality' media - the use of psychics and the occult in TV programmes. He would like to hear from any of the ghosts contacted in 'Most Haunted', Doris Stokes or Derek Acorah. He is a member of the Midlands Television Research Group.

• Email: paul.long@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5468
• Location: B213 (Perry Barr)

Annette Naudin is the course director of the MA in Media Enterprise at Birmingham City University. Annette's developed her entrepreneurial experience by setting up and running her own successful textile business supplying outlets such as Liberty, Harrods and exporting to Japan, USA and Europe.

Developing expertise in the creative industries and enterprise, she then worked as a consultant with clients including local authorities, Arts Council England and various creative industries organisations and projects. She completed a second MA at Warwick University in European Cultural Policy and Management.

She is interested in the development and support of the creative industries sector and has recently been awarded a faculty Teaching Fellowship to research NESTA’s approach to teaching enterprise. As part of this work she is coordinating a Creative Enterprise conference and is the co-author of a published paper on the subject of Creative Industries Enterprise and Curriculum Development.

• Email: annette.naudin@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 204 9880
• Location: Main office (Screen Media Lab)

Ayo has a life-long interest in the development and application of communications models for national development and social change. He has worked in the advertising industry, which developed his interest in the uses and applicability of persuasive communication in emerging societies. He subsequently developed this for his doctoral research. His teaching and research interests include international, intercultural and political communication, international relations, the impact and potentials of communication technologies, advertising and visual culture.

• Email: ayo.oyeleye@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 6741
• Location: B316 (Perry Barr)

Duncan has worked in the events and exhibitions industry for over 20 years as both a client and supplier. For the last 10 years he has been the director of a successful conference and events production company working for a wide range of multi national FMCG, finance, media, IT and pharmaceutical companies.

Working throughout the UK, Europe and the USA Duncan has organized and managed many trade fairs, exhibitions, press conferences, AGMs, incentives, seminars, conferences, expositions, and product launches.

He maintains close ties with the industry and remains a consultant and non-executive director of an events production company based in the Midlands.

• Email: duncan.sedgwick@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 5474
• Location: B320 (Baker Building, Perry Barr)

Pete is an experienced music journalist and broadcaster. His research interests include music promotion and amateur music as a social discourse. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and has worked on a wide range of PR projects from music promotion and events management in the UK to training local authority communications officers in Russia. He maintains a blog, Screaming Headlines that provides a commentary on current issues in journalism and PR.

• http://www.ipr.org.uk
• http://www.screamingheadlines.blogspot.com

• Email: peter.wilby@bcu.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 7641
• Location: B320 (Perry Barr)

Vanessa worked for the BBC for over 20 years. She has worked at all levels of production from researcher to series producer. Vanessa has a wide experience of different factual genres including constructed and observational documentaries, lifestyle and leisure formats, and events. She has produced live and recorded multi-camera outside broadcasts, as well as studio and location based single camera productions.

• Tel: +44 (0)121 331 6765
• Location: B309 (Perry Barr)