Studying Creative Media Production

Meet your Course Leaders!

Ian and Stephen welcome you to Creative Media Production

Stephen Griffiths (Co-Course Leader)
Stephen, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is Course Director for Film, Media & Animation.
He has over 20 years’ experience as a lecturer teaching broadcasting, TV Production, media & entertainment, and acting.  Stephen’s interests include light entertainment and comedy, television drama, and children’s programming.  He is a member of the Royal Television Society and the British Music Hall Society and previously worked as a researcher for Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4 and has also performed in theatre, including the lead role in a play about the World War One poet Wilfred Owen.

 

Ian Bayley (Co-Course Leader)
Ian is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
He has combined a career of 20 years’ teaching in Higher Education with over 35 years’ working as a journalist and senior roles in Public Relations.  His teaching expertise includes print, online, and digital journalism, media law, public relations, sports governance and sports culture.  Ian spent seven years working in professional sport and also previously led our BA (Hons) Sports Journalism course, along BA (Hons) Professional Sports Writing and Broadcasting for former professional athletes. His interests include the relationship between professional sport and the media. 

Ian and Stephen are looking forward to supporting your creativity and can't wait to see what you'll create!

 

Teaching staff

Ian Bayley

Senior Lecturer

.Ian is a Senior Lecturer and an award leader for the BA (Hons) Professional Sportswriting and Broadcasting degree. He previously worked in Sports PR, Sports Journalism and News Journalism

Ian's profile

Stephen Griffiths

Course Director

Stephen's teaching centres on broadcast programme histories and media performance, especially acting on television. His research interests include broadcast light entertainment and comedy, television drama, and children's programming.

Stephen's profile

Dr Mark Brown

Course Director

As well as being Course Leader for English and Creative Writing, Mark teaches on First Year core modules and American literature modules on Crime Fiction, the Contemporary, Modernism and Beat Writing. He also supervises MA and PhD students.

Mark's profile

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