Media and Journalism Research Staff
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Dr Charlotte Stevens
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications
Charlotte is interested in media audiences and games. She co-leads the BCMCR Game Cultures research cluster. Her current research focuses on Chinese television: tomb-raiding dramas, remediation of video games in television programmes, and experiences of English-language audiences for Chinese television. She has previously...
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Ellie Tomsett
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication
Dr Ellie Tomsett is a Senior Lecturer in media and film. Before teaching in Higher Education, Ellie worked in the UK film education sector. During this time she delivered training to teachers, youth workers and professional filmmakers across the country and organised filmmaking and theory activities for large organisations such...
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Professor Panayiota Tsatsou
Professor in Media Diversity
Panayiota Tsatsou is Professor of Media Diversity in the Department of English and Media at Birmingham City University and Academic Research Lead at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity. Her work explores media diversity, digital inclusion and the wider social and structural inequalities that shape people’s...
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Professor Tim Wall
Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies
Tim Wall is Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His work focuses on popular music cultures and their mediation and history, notably those around jazz, soul and reggae. He has published extensively in international journals and books, and he applies his insights...
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Dr Nick Webber
Associate Professor in Media
Nick Webber is Director of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR). He joined the University in 2008, having previously worked in research development. Nick has a background in medieval history, and his research now focuses on (historical) game studies.
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Professor Tony Whyton
Professor of Jazz Studies
Tony Whyton is Professor of Jazz Studies at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. His critically acclaimed books Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album (Oxford University Press, 2013) have sought to develop cross-disciplinary methods of musical...
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Dr Poppy Wilde
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication
Dr Poppy Wilde is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication. She is the author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) and has published extensively on critical posthumanism and game studies. Her research explores how posthuman subjectivities are enabled and embodied in a...