Media and Communication MA: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences teaches this course. Students benefit from a lively study environment, thanks to the wide range of postgraduate courses on offer.

Programmes cover everything from English literature and music to human rights and politics.

The Faculty provides a vibrant and forward-thinking environment for study with:

• courses designed in collaboration with industry professionals – keeping you up to date with the latest developments;
• established connections with the London arts and media scene – with a range of guest speakers, professors and lecturers visiting the University; and
• committed and enthusiastic staff – many of whom are expert practitioners as well as leading academics and researchers.

The Faculty's combination of academics and practitioners makes it a unique environment in which to further your studies and your career.

Where is the Faculty based? Most students are based at the University's Penrhyn Road campus, with our music and education courses taught at the Kingston Hill campus.

Dr Steven Bastow

Dr Steven Bastow is a principal lecturer and a researcher for the European Research Centre. His specialist subjects and research interests include European ideologies of the 20th century and the discourse of ethno-differentialist revolutionary nationalism. 

Dr Fan Carter

Dr Fan Carter is a senior lecturer in media and cultural studies. Her specialist subjects and interests include the influence of the media on our day-to-day lives.

Anita Howarth

Anita worked for over ten years as a journalist on national and professional publications before entering academia. She has a masters degree in politics from Birkbeck College (University of London) and is currently completing a PhD in the intersections of media and public policy in the area of GM food at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Anita's research interests include the role of the media in public policy especially in areas of food policy, environmental policy and foreign policy. She is also developing a research expertise in political communication in South Africa.

Dr Marina Lambrou

Dr Marina Lambrou's research interests include stylistics, both literary and non-literary, with a particular focus on narratives and their structure; language and media, the linguistic strategies underlying media language and mediation of texts; sociolinguistics, including language variation and identity; and ethnography.

Dr Landé Pratt

Landé is course director for the Media Practice MA. She project managed www.screenonline.org.uk, the British Film Institute's archive on the history of British film and television; was London Technology Network's Business Fellow 2004–06; and freelanced as a producer in digital media.

Landé researched psycho-legal issues for her DPhil awarded at Oxford University; she has an MA in documentary television production from Goldsmith's College London; and trained in multimedia production at the SAE Institute of Technology. Her research interests include media and law; new documentary; media innovation; new advertising practice; user-generated content; the business of media; inter-disciplinary pedagogy.

Dr Aybige Yilmaz

Dr Aybige Yilmaz is the course director for the MA in Media and Communication. Her specialist subjects and research interests include gender and ethnic nationalism in media; Islam and Europeanness; and post-colonial discourses of nation and modernity.