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Martin Barker is Head of the School of Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England. His previous researches in this area have been focused, first, on the history of 'moral panics' about children and childhood; then, on the study of media which are seen as particularly child-directed (especially children's comics). At the moment, he is finishing an ESRC-funded project on film audiences, focusing on the audiences of the 1995 film Judge Dredd, among which have been a number of groups of young people aged 11-15.
Jim Barratt graduated from Reading University in 1992, and successfully completed an MA in Sociology at Essex University the following year. He is currently at work on a doctoral research project registered at Middlesex University and funded by a studentship from the British Film Institute, examining young people's uses of VCR technology and the home-based regulation of these activities. He has contributed to a Sight and Sound supplement on the history of censorship in Britain (June 1995).
Cary Bazalgette is Principal
Education Officer at the British Film Institute. The BFI plans to increase
its emphasis on research and to seek funding for larger projects to study
children's development of critical and creative media skills. Our particular
concern is to shift debates about 'media literacy' into the same arena as
debates about traditional literacy. Our recent TV programme Revaluing Literacy
which provides highlights of our May 1996 conference Curriculum 2000: Education
and the Moving Image will be re-broadcast on BBC2 and BBC Prime at 4.30am
each Thursday in September 1996.
Further details on the BFI's educational
work, addresses and contacts.
Sonia Livingstone is the Programme Director of the Msc in Media and Communications in the Department of Social Psychology at LSE, and is a member of the department's Media Research Group. Her recent books include "Making Sense of Television" (Butterworth & Heineman, 1995) and, with Peter Lunt, "Talk on Television" (Routledge, 1994). Her research interests concern the television audience; the relation between texts and viewers for different television genres (soap opera, crime, talk shows). She is currently directing a major, new project, entitled "Children, Young People, and the electronic media", in association with the Broadcasting Standards Council, investigating the meanings, uses and impacts of old and new media.
Dr Maire Messenger Davies is Principal Lecturer and Director of Studies for the Media and Cultural Studies BA Hons degree programme as the School of Media, London College of Printing, part of the London Institute. She is the author of Fake, Fact and Fantasy: Children's interpretations of television reality (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996); Television is Good for Your Kids (Hilary Shipman, London, 1989) and Baby Language (Unwin Hyman, 1986). She obtained her BA in English from Trinity College, Dublin in 1968 and her Mphil/PhD at the University of East London in 1988. A former journalist, her research interests include: television in Britain and the US - especially its formal aspects and their relationship with cognitive processing in audiences; producers and their practices; child audiences, media literacy and psycholinguistic development; media education, especially teaching methods for media professionals; research methodology. She is currently conducting research funded by the BBC on children's attitudes to television drama. She is Editor of The Journal of Educational Media (formerly Journal of Educational Television).
Dr David Oswell lecture in Communication and Information Studies in the Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University, London. He is currently researching into questions of identity, performance, children's television and broadcasting policy. His previous research has been concerned with the historical construction of the child audience within British broadcasting institutions
Lewis Rudd has been an executive in ITV Children's Programmes since 1966. He is currently Senior Executive Producer, Children's Programmes at Carlton UK Television.
Lucinda Whiteley is the Commissioning Editor for Children's Programmes at Channel Four Television, responsible for the commissioning and acquisition of all children's programmes for Channel Four. She was a member of the original team which launched TCC (formerly known as The Children's Channel) in 1984. Lucinda is a Board Member of both the International Animation Festival and Children's Express, and is also an active member of the TVYP (Television and Young People) Steering Committee and the 1 in 8 Group.
Created: 12th June 1996 by Steve
Bennett
Updated: 22nd April 1997
Please direct all enquiries regarding the content of this page to Sonia Livingstone