Ms Maire Tracey
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Broadcast Media
Biography
A Senior Lecturer in Media Practice and Programme Leader for MA Documentary Production, MA Drama Production, MA Editing Production and MA Wildlife Documentary Production; I joined the University of Salford in 2013 and have taught across undergrad and postgrad programmes.
As a documentary maker, specialising, in science and history documentaries and primarily international filming, I have made documentaries with Stephen Hawking and Michio Kaku about Time Travel for Nat Geo and with Desmond Tutu for ITV .
I have directed documentaries about Prehistoric America for Nat Geo, Battlefield Detectives for The History Channel and Eye of the Storm for ITV among others.
I worked chiefly at Granada TV here in Salford and also at the BBC and independent TV production companies. While at Granada, I was based at The New York Times working with journalists to develop documentary ideas from news stories. Prior to the Beijing Olympics, I worked with CICC (China International Capital Corporation) and Discovery to make sports documentaries.
I am School Leader for ALBERT Sustainable Production and also for the Edinburgh TV Network.
For the past 3 years I have been a Judge for the Royal Television Society Awards
Areas of Research
I am a documentary producer / director have produced and directed more 20 films ranging from specialist factual science and history documentaries to factual entertainment docs these have been broadcast globally on BBC, Channel 4, NatGeo, Disovery, ITV and CCTV9.
As as academic my recent documentaries about been about Fuel Poverty (NetZero Terraced Streets) and Spatial Justice (Makerworld).
In 2024, I received Landmark Futures funding and made a poetic documentary at Astley Castle entitled "Unfinished Business".
In 2023, I directed and produced a documentary All that is Buried about South African creatives as part of the South African Modernism AHRC Research Project.
I have also co-written a journal article about this experience entitled The Making of All That Is Buried: Dialog, Chronotope and Decoloniality.
I teach across all L7 documentary modules; and lead four Masters level modules including Practice Based Research and Dissertation Modules.
I have taught L4, L5 and L6 BA module for BA Television and Radio Production and was Module Leader for Final Project 60 credit module
I have also been External Examiner at Bournemouth University and also at Liverpool University XJTLU.
Qualifications
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Postgraduate Certificate in Education
2014 - 2015 -
MA Modern International Studies
1992 - 1993 -
BA (Hons) European Languages and Institutions (German and French) 2:1
1988 - 1992