MeCCSA - Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association

Management committee

Overview

Natalie Fenton

Natalie Fenton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has also worked in the Department of Communication Studies (now Communications and Politics) at Liverpool University and in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Her publications include Mediating Social Science (1998, with Alan Bryman, David Deacon and Peter Birmingham) and Trust and Civil Society (2000, with Fran Tonkiss, Andrew Passey and Les Hems). Her research is concerned to address the role the media play in the formation of identities and democracies and why and how people seek to change the world for socially progressive ends. Her work spans both cultural studies approaches and social scientific approaches to the study of media, culture and society. She has been an activist in the Association of University Teachers for over 12 years including national President 2001-02. She has served on various national committees concerned with higher education employment related issues, is an experienced lobbyist, campaigner and negotiator. She also writes regularly for the national press.

n.fenton@gold.ac.uk