Academic Staff
Dr Robert Shail
B.A. (UWE), PGCtHE (Bangor), M.A. (UWE), PhD (Exeter), FHEA
Head of Department
Email: r.shail@lamp.ac.uk
Robert teaches a range of modules in film studies covering the history of American cinema and art cinema traditions in Europe. He is concerned with both mainstream commercial film-making, including subjects such as gender and stardom, and with less conventional approaches that include the avant-garde and experimental film. His theoretical leaning is towards historicist approaches which are reflected in his module on cinema of the 1960s.
Robert’s research interests include masculinity in cinema and the history of postwar British film. He has published a number of journal articles and essays in collected editions in these areas. His most recent publications include a biography of Welsh film star Stanley Baker (University of Wales Press, 2008), a critical study of British film directors (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and a volume on British cinema in the 1970s (BFI/Palgrave, 2009). He is currently writing a study of British director Tony Richardson for Manchester University Press.
Trevor Harris
B.Sc. (Ext London), PGCtHE (Bangor), FHEA
Lecturer in Interactive Media
Team Leader in Media Production
Trevor teaches electronic publishing skills ranging from print-focused Desktop Publishing through to Interactive New Media. A particular specialism is Panoramic Digital Photography, examples of which are available here. He manages the Film and Media Macintosh Computer Suite, ensuring that the facility is kept up to date with industry standard software and he organises the Work Placement module for Media production students, ensuring that suitable host companies are found and that students gain maximum benefit from the experience.
His main research interests include the emergence of Digital Video technologies as interdisciplinary tools in education and in particular, the impact of digital technologies on the Media Literacy debate. Currently Trevor has made it his mission to raise the profile of Donald Watts Davies, a little known Welsh pioneer of the digital revolution, which has involved a presentation at an International Conference, published Variety in Mass Communication Research, an article in the Western Mail, Wales's national newspaper, and an interview on Radio Wales.
Trevor sits on the Advisory Committe for Ffresh, the Student Moving Festival of Wales and the steering Group and Editorial Board for the Productive Relationships: Higher Education and the Creative Industries project.
Email: t.harris@lamp.ac.uk
Carol Byrne Jones
B.A., P.G.C.E. (Cardiff), M.A. (Sheffield)
Lecturer in Media Production (Part Time)
Producer, director, script writer, performer and academic researcher, Carol is interested in almost any form of storytelling, which may account for her eclectic career in television programme production ( HTV Wales, freelance), industrial training ( Skillset external verifier, Cyfle tutor) and education ( primary, secondary and higher levels).
Currently she teaches screenwriting, while researching a PhD based on her work as an independent producer for S4C ( the Welsh Fourth Channel) for whom she has produced and directed a variety of programmes, working in different genres, using single and multicamera techniques.
She is also a board member of Aberteifi / Cardigan based Theatr Byd Bychan / Small World Puppet Theatre whose work is largely directed at community empowerment and regeneration through the arts.
Email: c.byrnejones@lamp.ac.uk
Laurence Hall
B.A. (UWL)
Lecturer in Digital Video Production (Part Time)
Laurence is currently completing his MPhil-By-Practice, exploring the evolving use of narratives in documentary filmmaking. He teaches in the area of Digital Video Production and has also run a number of film studies modules for the department of film and media.
Laurence is also co-founder of Handshake Productions www.handshakeproductions.org, a digital media production and training company that specialises in community, conservation and ethical media projects. The companies flagship event The Great Primate Handshake will take volunteers across Africa to create digital media to affect change in primate centers and their surrounding communities.
Email: l.hall@lamp.ac.uk
Chris Everett
B.A., PGDip Interactive Media (UWL)
Lecturer in 3D Design, Multimedia & Animation
Chris leads a range of modules in New Media production, including the Digital 3D Design and the Flash based Interactive Multimedia & Animation modules.
Email: c.everett@lamp.ac.uk
Steve Gerrard
B.A. (UWL)
Lecturer in Film Studies (Part Time)
Steve teaches in the area of Film Studies, specialising in British cinema and popular culture, the bawdy British tradition of sex comedy as well as the exploitation & horror film. He is fascinated by the way that these constructions of television and cinema have made a profound impact upon British culture. So ingrained are these iconographical constructions that they have, in many ways, been shaped by and have themselves shaped ideas of what it is to be ‘British’.
Steve is currently engaged on his PhD research which is examining the cultural and social impact of the Carry On cylce.
Email: s.gerrard@lamp.ac.uk
Sophia Behraki
B.A. (Athens), M.A. (Bristol)
Lecturer in Film Editing (Part Time)
Sophia teaches editing. Over the past ten years she has cut award winning documentaries and wild-life programmes broadcast on Channel 4, network ITV, Channel 5 and the BBC, having begun her career editing films for the World Wildlife Fund. Her continued involvement in the industry and environmental programming, combined with her commitment to give students real production experience, resulted in last year's class editing programmes commissioned and broadcast by green.tv. She is currently completing a PGCE in further education.
Email: s.behraki@lamp.ac.uk
Simon Horrocks
M.A. (Edinburgh) M.A. (Warwick)
Lecturer in Film Studies / Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Previously Cinema Education Officer at Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre, Simon has a wide range of teaching and research interests in the areas of film and media. These include Chinese cinema (and Asian cinema more generally) and the use of popular music in film and television. Simon now heads the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Email: s.horrocks@lamp.ac.uk