Dr Carole O'Reilly

Senior Lecturer

• MCUK 2nd floor
• T: 0161 295 6054
• E: c.oreilly@salford.ac.uk
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Wednesday: 2 - 4pm

Thursday 10 – 12 & 2- 4pm

Carole graduated from the National University of Ireland (Cork) with a BA (Hons) in English & Sociology.

After a period as a feature writer on various local and national newspapers and magazines, she undertook a Masters by research in Sociology at Cork, specialising in the history of newspaper ownership in Britain and Ireland. This was supplemented by visiting lecturer positions at Cork Institute of Technology and at NUI (Cork).

On the launch of the Open University in the Irish Republic in 1991, Carole was appointed the first tutor-counsellor in Social Sciences for the Cork region.

In 1993, she moved to Salford to take up the position of Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Salford University. After spending time as programme leader for BA (Hons) Media and Language with Business and BA (Hons) Television & Radio, Carole was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2003 and became Head of the Media Division in that year. She served as Associate Head of School (Teaching) for 2 years from 2007 to 2009.

Carole has served many higher education institutions as a consultant (Edge Hill University and University of Essex among them) and has been an external examiner at Liverpool John Moores University, University of East Anglia and the University of Bolton. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Communication, Culture and Media (CCM) research institute at Salford.

She was awarded a PhD in 2009 from the History department of Manchester Metropolitan University, for a thesis examining the influence of local newspaper reporting on the campaign for public parks in Manchester in the early Edwardian period.

Feature Writing; Journalism Studies; Critical Journalism Studies; War Reporting; Dissertation

PhD supervision x 4 students

History of urban journalism; social and cultural history; history of leisure and recreation

2003: Fellow, Higher Education Academy

2009: PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University

Greening the City: Urban Parks and Public Culture. Routledge, Studies in Cultural History, forthcoming 2015.

Journal of Historical Pragmatics, (forthcoming, Summer 2014). ‘Dirt, Death and Disease’: Newspaper Discourses on Public Health in the Construction of the Modern British City.

Urban History, vol. 39 (February 40:1, 2013). “From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: the emergence of the Edwardian municipal park in Manchester 1902 – 1912”, pp. 136 – 155. ISSN: 0963-9268.

Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, entry on Newspaper Architecture (ed. Laurel Brake, British Library, Academic Press, University of Ghent, 2013).

Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, entry on Reporting Local Government (ed. Laurel Brake, British Library, Academic Press, University of Ghent, 2013).

Urban History Review, vol. 40, no. 1 (Autumn 2011). “Re-ordering the Landscape: Landed Elites and the New Urban Aristocracy in Manchester”, pp. 30 – 40. ISSN: 0703-0428.