| Sarita Malik |
 Sarita Malik is the Chair of the MeCCSA Race Network and a co-opted member of the Executive Committee since February 2009.She joined Brunel University as a Researcher in January 2005 after working for a range of arts, media and educational organisations including a London arts venue where she was Head of Asian Arts. Following on from her role as a research bid writer at Brunel, she worked on an ESRC-funded project with Professors Peter Lunt (Brunel) and Sonia Livingstone (LSE), The Public Understanding of Risk and Regulation. Sarita has a BA Hons in English with Media Studies from Sussex University and an MA in Film and Television Studies from Warwick University , and was selected for a Sociology PhD studentship place based at the British Film Institute in London. Her PhD, supervised by Professor Stuart Hall, was on the history of black and Asian representation on British television from 1936 to the present day and was awarded by the Open University in 1998. Sarita continues to write, research and lecture on issues related to media, culture and representation. Current interests include: cultural policy and public service broadcasting, 'race', reality TV and world television; and black and Asian British cinema. She is a project partner on the AHRC's Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe project, and sits on the editorial board of The Journal of South Asian Popular Culture for which she has recently guest-edited a special issue, 'The Cinema Issue' (forthcoming 2009). Sarita's academic and journalistic writings have been widely published. She blogs on The Guardian's Comment is Free and has contributed to a range of print and web publications including The Guardian, Catalyst, Arts Professional, Sight and Sound and screenonline. She has been a consultant for various publishers and cultural and media organisations and has made frequent media appearances, including on the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky. sarita.malik@brunel.ac.uk |