MEDIA, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION

                 BALLOT FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 2001


The following message was posted to all members via the MeCCSA email list
on December 4th..  The transfer of this list from mailbase to jiscmail
seems to have impeded the receipt of this information by some members.
This appears to be a teething problem for many if not all academic users of
the new service.

From:         "Prof. Peter Golding" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      ballot for MeCCSA Committee
Dear Members,

The period for nominations for election to the Association Executive
Committee closed on December 1st.  At that time the number of nominations
was fewer than the number of places available for election, and there will
therefore be no need for a postal ballot.  As Hon. Sec of the Association,
and in advance of formal declaration at the AGM in January, I can inform
members that the following are therefore elected to the Executive Committee
for 2001.

Helen Baehr (Sunderland/Middlesex)
Martin Barker (Aberystwyth)
Rosalind Brunt (Sheffield Hallam)
David Butler (East London)
Helen Davis (Sunderland)
Christine Geraghty (Goldsmiths)
Peter Golding (Loughborough)
Peter Goodwin (Westminster)
Maire Messenger Davies (Cardiff)
Tim O'Sullivan (De Montfort)
Tessa Perkins (Sheffield Hallam)
Philip Schlesinger (Stirling)
Sue Thornham (Sunderland)


Brief biographies of the above were submitted as a required part of the
nomination process, and would have appeared on a ballot paper; they will
therefore be circulated shortly for members' information. The Committee has
powers of co-option to recognise the need for representation across subject
areas, regions, and gender, and elects officers from among its elected
members. Other details of the Committee's powers and duties are contained
in the Association's constitution.  The first meeting of the new committee
will take place during the annual conference in January.


Peter Golding
Hon. Sec.



The biographies, as submitted in nomination papers, follow:

Martin Barker is currently Reader in Media Studies at the University of
Sussex, but in January 2001 moves to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
to become Professor of Film and Television Studies. Until 1998 he worked in
Bristol at the University of the West of England where, for the last seven
years, he was Head of School of Cultural Studies, He has been involved in
various roles within the field’s national organisations since the mid-
1970s. Within MeCCSA he has served as Publications Officer, producing its
regular Newsletters and its publicity brochure for schools and colleges. He
is also a member of the QAA subject benchmarking group.

Rosalind Brunt is Hon Research Fellow in Media Studies at Sheffield Hallam
University. Previously she was director of the Centre for Popular Culture
there and course leader of the first MA in Women’s Studies in public sector
HE. Now she teaches and researches mainly in the areas of popular culture,
media and women’s studies and is on the advisory boards of Theory Culture
and Society and The Journal of Gender Studies. She has recently been
appointed to the QAA Communication, Media , Film and Cultural Studies
Benchmarking Group. In 1999 she served as co-ordinator of the working party
made up of AMCCS and SCCCMS members to plan for the new Association that
became MeCCSA. She was involved in previous organisational efforts to
represent ‘the field’ and served on both the committees of the original
Network/Association for Cultural Studies and of AMFIT. At present she is
vice-chair of MeCCSA.

David Butler has taught media and cultural. studies for twelve years (media
sociology, film studies, theories and methods, study skills, media
practice, work placements) at the University of Ulster and, since 1999, at
the University of East London, where he is Principal Lecturer and Subject
Group Leader for Media Studies, Third World Development, and Gender and
Women’s Studies.  His administrative experience includes admissions, exams
officer, course management, etc.. Current duties include cross department
responsibilities for curriculum development and staffing. He is external
examiner for Media Studies programme in the Centre for Continuing Education
at the University of Sussex. Author of ‘The Trouble with Reporting Northern
Ireland’ (1995), his research interests centre on the political uses of
cultural theory (notably its pedagogic uses). Background in journalism,
community arts and activism. While still in NI, worked with voluntary
sector groups and in ‘conflict resolution’ business. Designed and delivered
Media and Cultural Studies courses in Maze prison.



Helen Davis. Membership secretary for MeCCSA from April 1999. She has been
teaching Media and Cultural Studies for eight years and her research
interests lie chiefly in television studies, particularly TV drama, media
education and web-based pedagogy. Prior to teaching at HE level, she taught
English and Media in schools and FE colleges. Her post-graduate study was
undertaken at The Institute of Education, University of London, which
largely accounts for her continued professional interest in teaching and
learning. She is committed to raising the profile of the subject field and
representing the interests of members, particularly emerging scholars and
lecturers who need support and encouragement in order to become established
teachers and researchers. Her chief contribution to the work of MeCCSA has
been in the management of the MeCCSA mailing list which encourages
academics to share information about jobs, journals and academic events



Christine Geraghty  is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Media and
Communications Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Before becoming a full time academic in 1993, she had taught film part time
for many years, whilst pursuing a career as a trade union bureaucrat, both
experiences which come in useful now. She is the author of a number of
books and articles on film and television, most recently British Cinema in
the Fifties. She has been on the Executive Committee for the past two years
and is currently Chairperson of MeCCSA. She is on the QAA benchmarking group

Helen Baehr is a current member of the Executive Committee. She serves as
the MeCCSA representative on the Skillset Higher Education Forum and has
managed to secure additional MeCCSA places on the Forum from January 2001.
This is important since our increased representation comes at a crucial
time when both the DCMS and DfEE are investing National Training
Organisations, like Skillset, with increasing power and influence in the
area of, what the government now likes to call, “vocational education.”
She is a Visiting Professor in the School of Arts, Design and Media at
Sunderland and a Visiting Academic in the School of Communication, Cultural
and Media Studies at Middlesex. She also works closely with a range of
media organisations including the Film Council, British Screen Advisory
Council, Royal Television Society, the Institute for Public Policy Research
and is on the Board of Women in Film and Television.

Peter Golding has been Professor of Sociology and Head of Social Sciences
at Loughborough University since 1990, and co-director of its
Communications Research Centre. He co-edits the European Journal of
Communication, is chair of the European Sociological Association Media
Research Network, and co-chairs the European Science Foundation Programme
on media research. He was founding Chair of the Standing Conference on
Cultural, Communications, and Media Studies from 1992 until the fusion two
years ago with AMCCS which created MeCCSA, since when he has been MeCCSA’s
Hon. Secretary, and chairs its Academic Development Sub-committee. He is a
member of the RAE panel 65, as in 1996, and of the ESRC panel formulating
postgraduate research training guidelines for media and cultural studies,
and also of the HEFCE Media Studies Advisory Group.

Peter Goodwin is Course Director BA Media Studies, University of
Westminster since 1997 (started teaching full-time at Westminster 1994).
He is author of television Under the Tories: Broadcasting Policy 1979 -
1997. Teaching specialisms: media economics, media policy and media and
politics. Current research: impact of internet on traditional media
industries. Previous occupations: freelance journalist specialising in TV
industry (writing for Broadcast IT’ World etc); local government researcher
(London Research Centre, GLC); political organiser, comprehensive school
teacher. Member NATFHE and NUJ.

Máire Messenger Davies is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism,
Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. A former journalist, her
PhD was in psychology, with a special interest in child audiences, and
because of this inter-disciplinary background, her research ,teaching and
writing has been in diverse areas of Media & Cultural Studies. Current book
projects include a book for the University of California Press on Star Trek
and Television Studies, and a forthcoming book for Cambridge University
Press, Dear BBC: Children, Television-Storytelling and the Public Sphere.
As a manager of BA programmes in both Cardiff and the London College of
Printing, as well as in the United States at Boston University, she has a
special interest in both under- and postgraduate pedagogy, and believes
strongly in the importance of integrating research with teaching and good
professional practice in our field.

Tim O'Sullivan is currently Head of Department of Media & Cultural
Production at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has been in this post
for over two years. He has been a member of the MeCCSA executive committee
since its formation and before that served in a similar position for
SCCCMS. He was a HEFCE Subject Assessor for the field, 1996-1998 and is
currently a member of the QAA Subject Benchmarking Group. Prior to his
appointment at De Montfort he taught at the Polytechnic of Wales and before
that at Nene College Northampton. He has wide experience of examining and
teaching in the field of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at a
variety of levels. He is research active and currently completing a study
of Television and the British home 1946-1960.

Tessa Perkins  is  Principal Lecturer in Media Studies at Sheffield Hallam
University. She was involved in setting up the BA Media Studies course at
SHU, now in its 10th year, was its first Course Leader and the first Media
Studies subject leader at SHU. Originally a sociologist by training, she
has taught and researched, in old and new universities, in sociology,
cultural studies, communication studies, media and film studies and women’s
studies. Her publications are mainly in the area of stereotypes and
changing representations of gender, and more recently of lesbians. However
her most recent publication ‘Who is it for?’ concerns the relationship
between theory, the academy and politics. She was a founder member of
AMFIT, and subsequently of AMCCS, of which She was chair between 1996-9.
Since the fusion of AMCCS & SCCCMS into MeCCSA she has been on the
executive committee of MeCCSA and has been its treasurer.


Philip Schlesinger is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University
of Stirling and Director of Stirling Media Research Institute. He is chair
of the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies panel of the 2001 Research
Assessment Exercise and also chaired the 1996 panel. He was a member of the
Film Education Working Group and is a Board member of Scottish Screen and
chairs that agency’s education committee. He is also on the Board of the
Research Centre for Television and Interactivity at Channel 4 Television,
Glasgow. He is an editor of Media, Culture and Society. His most recent
research projects include political communication and democracy, televised
violence, and public participation in the media. his next book is Open
Scotland? Journalists, Spin Doctors and Lobbyists (with David Miller and
Will Dinan) to be published by Edinburgh University Press in April 2001.


Sue Thornham is Professor and Head of the Department of Media and Cultural
studies at the University of Sunderland. She was a member of the Executive
Committee of AMCCS and has been a member of the MeCCSA Executive Committee
since 1998. She is a MeCCSA representative on the Skillset HE Forum, and is
Chair of The QAA Benchmarking group for Communication. Media, Film and
Cultural Studies.