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 Máire Messenger Davies is Professor of Media Studies, and Director of the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. A former journalist, with a PhD in psychology, who has taught in universities on both sides of the Atlantic, she is the co-ordinator of the recently-formed Meccsa Policy Network .
Her research interests focus on media, young people and children; broadcasting in the USA and the UK; and teaching research methodology. Her most recent research, in collaboration with colleagues at Cardiff, Bournemouth and Nottingham Universities, is on young people, citizenship and news – especially in relation to the transition from broadcast to online journalism; this is a BBC/AHRC Knowledge Exchange funded project.
She has written a number of books, including Dear BBC: Children, television storytelling and the public sphere (2001, Cambridge University Press); Fake, fact and fantasy: children’s understanding of television reality (1997: Lawrence Erlbaum) and Making People Count: Practical Research Methods for Media & Cultural Studies (2006, Edinburgh University Press, with Nick Mosdell).
m.messenger-davies@ulster.ac.uk
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