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CCM currently has 20 researchers, both full members and associate members, making it one of the largest Media research communities in the UK higher education system. We also have a number of associate members from across the university, established researchers with common interests in media, theory, culture, music, technology. 

Full members

These are our 16 established researchers across media and cultural studies, and media practice.

• Dr Cristina Archetti - Senior Lecturer in Politics and Media      
• Prof Peter Buse - Professor of Visual Culture 
• Dr Kirsty Fairclough - Lecturer in Media and Performance
• Dr Michael Goddard - Lecturer in Media Studies
• Dr Ben Halligan - Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance
• Dr William Hope - Lecturer in Italian Language and Cinema
• Prof Erik Knudsen - Professor of Film Practice
• Dr Chris Lee - Senior Lecturer in Film Studies 
• Prof Ben Light - Professor of Digital Media 
• Dr Yuwei Lin - Lecturer in Future Media 
• Prof George McKay - Professor of Cultural Studies 
• Dr  Phoebe Moore-Carter - Lecturer in International Relations      
• Dr Carole O'Reilly - Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies      
• Prof Gareth Palmer - Professor of Media 
• Prof Seamus Simpson - Professor of Media Policy      
• Dr Andy Willis - Reader in Film Studies

Associate members

These consist of those members of our Creative Media and Journalism & Communications staff who are currently enrolled on PhD programmes, often they have come to academia from working in industry. They are developing and early career researchers who are exploring the ideas of the future! And, coming from industry, they have media production, journalism, gaming and digital technology experience which informs their research too.

• Umran Ali - Senior Lecturer in Media (Topic: Digital game technologies)
• Angela Birchall - Senior Lecturer in Journalism (Topic: Journalism)
• Lesley Blaker (Topic: The representation of psychological discourse in television fiction)
• Sarah Jones - Lecturer in Journalism (Infotainment within television news)
• Laurence Murphy - Senior Lecturer in Media Technology (Topic: The impact of changing media technologies and the broadcast industries and viewers)
• Annabelle Waller – Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production (Topic: Meta TV in practice: an investigation into how contemporary British television reflects upon itself)
  

Associate members

These are established researchers from other research centres across the university whose work is media-, culture- or theory-related, and who we collaborate with.

• Gaynor Bagnall - Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Culture (Centre for Social Research)
• Dr Sharon Coen - Senior Lecturer in Media Psychology
  
• Garry Crawford - Professor of Sociology (Centre for Social Research)
• Victoria Gosling - Lecturer in Sociology (Social Inclusion) (Centre for Social Research)
• Dr Ben Harker - Senior Lecturer in Community and Cultural Studies (Centre for English Literature and Language)
• Jane Kilby - Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Centre for Social Research)
• David Kreps - Senior Lecturer in Information Systems (Centre for Information Systems, Organisation and Society)
• Greg Smith - Professor of Sociology (Centre for Social Research)
• Prof Haifa Takruri-Rizk - Computer Networking and Telecommunications Research Centre
  
• Steve Ward - Reader in Politics (Centre for Democracy and Human Rights)
• Tony Whyton - Professor of Jazz and Musical Cultures (Salford Music Research Centre)