About

Senior Lecturer on the Journalism subject area courses

Teaching responsibilities

Teaching across a range of platforms. Specialist area is television journalism, although also teaching video, audio, radio, print and online journalism

Membership of professional bodies

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the Association of Journalism Education

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) in Social Science from Manchester Metropolitan University 
• National Certificate from the National Council for the Training of Journalists
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education 

Experience in industry

• Newsgathering Editor for BBC North West in Manchester
• Assistant Editor and programme producer for BBC Look North in Leeds
• Television reporter and producer for BBC Points West in Bristol
• Content producer and reporter for BBC Online News
• Reporter, producer, newsreader and presenter for BBC Radio Devon news and sport
• Senior reporter for the Western Daily Press - the morning regional newspaper covering the west of England
• News and sport reporter at the Derby Telegraph
• Press and public relations consultant
• Media trainer