Research interests include, media history and policy, media and politics, and documentary film history and analysis. Author of 'The Early Years of Television and the BBC' (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and 'A History of Independent Television in Wales' (University of Wales Press, 2010). Currently working on a book, 'Programmes, Politics and Protest: broadcasting and society in Wales in the 1970s' (to be pubished by the University of Wales Press in 2025). Member of the Steering Committee of the Entangled Media Histories network and Chair of the Academic Advisory Group of the Wales Broadcast Archive.
Experience
–present
Professor of Media and Communication, Aberystwyth University
Education
2005
Aberystwyth University, PhD Television History
Publications
2022
The Early Years of Television and the BBC, Edinburgh University Press
2016
Broadcasting in the 1950s in the UK and US: historical perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010
A History of Independent Television in Wales, University of Wales Press