Professor Jane Arthurs (BA Hons, PGCE, MA, DPhil, FRSA) joined Middlesex University as Professor in Television in 2013 after 20 years at the University of the West of England where she was Head of the Department of Culture. Media and Drama, and then Director of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education. Her research on television has won international acclaim, especially her article on Sex and the City and Consumer Culture and her subsequent bookentitled Television and Sexuality. Her research on Celebrity, Gender and Reputation Management at the BBC has recently been published in an award winning collection on Gender and Public Relations. Professor Arthursexpertise and extensive contribution to the field of media anc cultural studies research has been recognised in her appointment to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework Panel as an output assessor.
Co-investigator, AHRC Connected Communities programme, with Michael Buser as Principal Investigator. Project title: Creative practice, activism and place-identities, 2012
Principal Applicant, Director of Studies for AHRC Fulltime PhD scholarship for Tim Tarrant, Finding and Audience:Digital Marketing of Low Budget Film, 2010.
Co-organiser of AHRC funded research network: Onscenity; sexual portrayal in popular culture, with Professor Feona Attwood, SHU (Principal Investigator), Dr.Clarissa Smith, Sunderland, Professor Julian Petley, Brunel, and Dr. Iain Hunter, De Montfort, 2010-12.
Core member of AHRC/ Arts Council/ DTI and ESRC funded research/KE network: Creativity and Interactivity in Television, with Christine Daymon, Bournemouth University (Principal Investigator), 2006-7.
Co-organiser of ESRC Seminar Series: New Femininities: Postfeminism and Sexual Citizenship, with Professor Ros Gill (Principal Investigator), LSE Gender and Research Institute; Professor Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University; Professor Anne Phoenix, Open University; Merl Storr, University of East London; and Estella Tincknell, UWE, 2004-06
ESRC funded project. Project title: ‘Crash’ and its Audiences, with Martin Barker (Principal investigator) and Ramaswami Harindranath, 1997-9
Co-investigator, AHRC Connected Communities programme, with Michael Buser as Principal Investigator. Project title: Creative practice, activism and place-identities, 2012
Principal Applicant, Director of Studies for AHRC Fulltime PhD scholarship for Tim Tarrant, Finding and Audience:Digital Marketing of Low Budget Film, 2010.
Co-organiser of AHRC funded research network: Onscenity; sexual portrayal in popular culture, with Professor Feona Attwood, SHU (Principal Investigator), Dr.Clarissa Smith, Sunderland, Professor Julian Petley, Brunel, and Dr. Iain Hunter, De Montfort, 2010-12.
Core member of AHRC/ Arts Council/ DTI and ESRC funded research/KE network: Creativity and Interactivity in Television, with Christine Daymon, Bournemouth University (Principal Investigator), 2006-7.
Co-organiser of ESRC Seminar Series: New Femininities: Postfeminism and Sexual Citizenship, with Professor Ros Gill (Principal Investigator), LSE Gender and Research Institute; Professor Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University; Professor Anne Phoenix, Open University; Merl Storr, University of East London; and Estella Tincknell, UWE, 2004-06
ESRC funded project. Project title: ‘Crash’ and its Audiences, with Martin Barker (Principal investigator) and Ramaswami Harindranath, 1997-9