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Faculty of Arts & Society

School of Cultural Studies

Dr Michael Bailey

Dr Michael Bailey BA (Hons), MA, PhD
 
School Responsibilities
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Media & Popular Culture
Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Analysis
 
Teaching Interests
Michael teaches four modules on the undergraduate programme, BA (Hons) Media & Popular Culture: ‘Nineteenth-Century Media History’ (Level 1); ‘Twentieth-Century Media History’ (Level 1); ‘Debating Cultural Theory’ (Level 3); ‘Theorising Media History’ (Level 3). He will also be co-teaching two core modules on ‘Visual Media & Society’ (with Neil Washbourne) and ‘Politics and Theory’ (with Franco Bianchini & Leila Jancovich) for the newly launched MAs in Screen Media Cultures and Cultural Policy and Planning. Michael is also Director of Studies or co-supervisor for three PhD candidates and has experience as an External Examiner at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Research Interests
Michael’s main research interests are media history and cultural theory. He has a particular interest in historical sociology and governmentality studies. He is also interested in New Left politics, alternative media and social movements, British cultural studies and media policy. He is currently working on a co-authored study of Richard Hoggart (with Ben Clarke & Stuart Rawnsley) (Blackwell-Wiley, 2010), and is a steering committee member for a forthcoming international conference entitled, Richard Hoggart: Culture & Critique (Leeds Metropolitan University, July 2009). Michael is also involved in the editing of two co-edited books, Liberal Government: History, Practice, Technology (with Francis Dodsworth) and Mediating Faiths: Religion, Media and Popular Culture (with Anthony McNicholas & Guy Redden) (Ashgate, 2010).

Shortly after completing his PhD in 2005, Michael was awarded a HEFCE ‘Promising Researcher Fellowship’, which enabled him to work alongside colleagues in the Media & Communications Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. As well as editing a book based on the work of James Curran, entitled, Narrating Media History, he used some of the sabbatical researching the 1984/85 miners' strike. Aspects of the latter research project can be found in a collection of essays published by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom. Michael is also a steering committee member for a forthcoming international conference that plans to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the coal dispute (University of Leeds, July 2010).

Michael is a reader and reviewer for various academic publishers and journals; a member of the international advisory board for the Louis le Prince Interdisciplinary Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television, University of Leeds; Visiting Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), The Open University, and the Department of Media & Communications, London School of Economics (LSE); an associate member of the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme; and he was recently elected Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, to undertake new research, provisionally entitled, Putting Culture Back into Cultural Studies.

Publications
‘The Making of an Icon and How the British Press Tried to Destroy It’ (with Julian Petley), in Granville Williams (Ed), Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath (London: Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, 2009), 91-99.

‘Unfinished Business: Demythologising the Battle of Orgreave’, in Granville Williams (Ed), Shafted: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath (London: Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, 2009), 119-128.

‘New Ventures in Adult Education in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Pastoral Government and the Pedagogical State’, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 62, 2009.

Narrating Media History (Ed.) (London: Routledge, 2008).

‘‘The Angel in the Ether’: Early Radio and the Constitution of the Household’, in Michael Bailey (Ed.), Narrating Media History (London: Routledge, 2008), 52-65.

‘BBC’, in Wolfgang Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopaedia of Communication (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), 52-7.

‘Richard Hoggart’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2008.

‘‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear’: Christian Pedagogy and Religious Broadcasting during the Inter-War Period’, Westminster Papers in Communications and Culture, 4 (1), 2007, 4-25.

‘Broadcasting and the Problem of Enforced Leisure during the 1930s’, Leisure Studies, 26 (4), 2007, 463-78.

‘Rethinking Public Service Broadcasting: the Historical Limits to Publicness’, in Richard Butsch (Ed.), The Media and the Public Sphere (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), 96-108.

Media appearances

‘Thinking Allowed’, BBC Radio 4 (26 August,2009)
 
Visiting Fellowships
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (forthcoming, 2010).

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge (forthcoming, 2010)

Department of Media & Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (2009)

ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), a University of Manchester - Open University collaboration (2008)

Media and Communications Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London (2007)

Consultation Hours
Currently on research leave

Contact Details
Room A216
School of Cultural Studies
Humanities Building
Broadcasting Place
Leeds Metropolitan University
Civic Quarter
Leeds LS2 9EN
Tel: 0113 812 5882
Fax: 0113 812 3112
Email: m.bailey@leedsmet.ac.uk

 

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P300 BA (Hons) Media and Popular Culture
This innovative course offers a critical and theoretical examination of media and popular culture, from its emergent modernity in the nineteenth century to the media-saturated culture of today.