MeCCSA - Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association

Management committee

Overview

Máire Messenger-Davies

Máire Messenger-Davies is Professor and Director of the Centre for Media Research, School of Media & Performing Arts at the University of Ulster. A former journalist, her PhD was in psychology, with a special interest in child audiences, and because of this inter-disciplinary background, her research, teaching and writing has been in diverse areas of Media & Cultural Studies. Current book projects include a book for the University of California Press on Star Trek and Television Studies, and a forthcoming book for Cambridge University Press, Dear BBC: Children, Television-Storytelling and the Public Sphere. As a manager of BA programmes in both Cardiff and the London College of Printing, as well as in the United States at Boston University, she has a special interest in both under- and postgraduate pedagogy, and believes strongly in the importance of integrating research with teaching and good professional practice in our field.

m.messenger-davies@ulster.ac.uk