CCPR PhD Students
Jenny Attala, Postgraduate Research Student
MLitt in Culture and Media (University of Glasgow/University of Strathclyde) BA Hons in English and American Literature (University of Kent at Canterbury).
Jenny Attala is currently doing an AHRC funded collaborative PhD on Flagship Festivals with the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) looking at the proliferation of festivals worldwide and how EIF can maintain pre-eminence in a fast changing context. Jenny has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London as Associate Director of Lectures and Seminars and in a range of arts funding posts including Literature, Visual Arts and Film at Arts Council North East and the Scottish Arts Council.
Steven Boyer, Postgraduate Research Student
MA in Communication (Georgia State University), BA in English (University of Texas at Austin), BS in Radio-Television-Film (University of Texas at Austin)
Steven Boyer is currently conducting his Ph.D. research on the relationship between the digital games industry and gaming audiences in both the United States and the United Kingdom, focusing specifically on how the industry conceptualizes its audiences. His other writings on games and the media industries have appeared in print and online in publications including The Velvet Light Trap, Flow, and In Media Res.Previously, he received an M.A. in Communication from Georgia State University, writing his thesis on the discourses of "casual" and "hardcore" in the digital games medium. He also holds undergraduate degrees in English (B.A.) and Radio-Television-Film (B.S.) from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jong-Eun Chung, Postgraduate Research Student
BA (Seoul Nat’l University) MA (Seoul Nat’l University) MSc (Glasgow University)
Jong-Eun Chung is a PhD student, carrying out his research on the similarities and disparities between creative/cultural industries policies of the UK and South Korea. His research is funded by ORS Scholarship from the University and the Faculty. He completed undergraduate degrees in Religious Studies (BA) and Aesthetics (BA) and a Master degree in Aesthetics (MA) at Seoul Nat’l University. After that he had served for two years as department secretary in department of Aesthetics, SNU. He also completed a Master degree in Media Management (MSc) at Glasgow University to become one of the first graduates in the course established by CCPR.
He has been a member of editorial committee of Gospel and Context(a monthly magazine printed in Seoul, Korea) since 2004 and the UK correspondent of Art View(a monthly magazine printed in Seongnam, Korea) since 2007. He was Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar from District 3670 to District 1230 between Sep. 2007 and Aug. 2009.
Book: On Theories of Cultural City, Seoul: Knowledge Industry (co-author, forthcoming)
Won Kyung Jeon, Postgraduate Research Student
BSc (Yonsei University), MA in Arts Criticism and Management (City University London)
Won Kyung Jeon joined CCPR as a PhD student in October 2009. She completed her MA degree in Arts Criticism and Management at City University London. After completing her MA course, she has worked as a reporter for ‘Weekly-Donga’, a weekly magazine published by ‘Donga Daily News’ in Korea. In addition, she has written five books about culture and arts. Among her books, ‘Britain: Slow, Steady and Happy Country (2000)’ was awarded ‘Book of the year’ by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Korea in 2000. Her third book, ‘The Streets of Artists’ was translated into Chinese and Taiwanese.As a research student, she is interested in Korean cultural export policy, especially the Korean Wave, a popularity of Korean pop culture in Asia since the late 1990s.Books: Britain: Slow, Steady and Happy Country, Seoul: Risu Publishing (2000); Short Glory and Long Grief, Seoul: Sigong Arts (2005); The Street of Artists, Seoul: Sigong Arts (2007)London: Finding the Hidden Worth, Seoul: Risu Publishing (2008); Men in the History, Seoul: 21st Books (2009)
Mohammad Hesampour, Postgraduate Research Student
B.A in cinema studies and M.A in Art research from Art University in Iran
Mohammad started his PhD in 2010. His research is on strategic policies and administrative activities that have been applied in the BBC to overcome the major challenges, especially compete with rival commercial networks in the digital age. In addition he will assess to what extent can these strategies and model of management of the BBC as a public service broadcaster be useful for national television organizations in other countries such as Iran?
Andrew McWhirter, Postgraduate Research Student
BA Hons in Communication & Mass Media (Glasgow Caledonian University), MLitt in Film Journalism (University of Glasgow)
Andrew has his roots in the written word, firstly working as a media copywriter and then moving back into education to complete a cinema-focused communication degree.
Having written and taught film journalism over the past few years, for publications like Tribune, and institutions such as the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) & Glasgow Caledonian University, he feels best place to pursue his long-term academic ambitions in a topic which is somewhat zeitgeist: Film Criticism in the Digital Age.
In his first year of his AHRC Block Grant Partnership PhD, he is currently refining this broad topic base into more streamlined areas, such as: theoretical perspectives on the concept of criticism and new media, the apparatus of the amateur film critic, writing and reading habits online, close textual analysis of pre-digital/digital materials, and journalism in focus at film festivals.
Piyumi Ranasinghe, Postgraduate Research Student
BA (Deakin University, Australia), MSc in Media Management (University of Glasgow)
Piyumi is pursuing her PhD research project on the effects of migration and the resulting cultural exposure on the identity of children of the expatriates in the Middle East. She will be examining specifically the development of a hybrid identity in children of Sri Lankan Professional expatriates who were brought up in Oman in the 1990s.
Piyumi received her Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts – Screen Studies from Deakin University in Melbourne Australia. Before joining the University of Glasgow to do an MSc in Media Management this year at CCPR. Previously she worked for The Capital Maharaja Organisation Ltd in Sri Lanka in the English Channel, Channel One, as the Head of Television Productions.
Anthony Reynolds, Postgraduate Research Student
MA (Hons) Film & Television Studies (University of Glasgow) MLitt Film & Television Studies (University of Glasgow)
Anthony joined CCPR as a PhD student in 2010, after completing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Film and Television Studies at the University. His AHRC-funded project (provisionally entitled 'Grown-up gaming: Long-term and 'heavy' computer game use in UK adults') examines the adult audiences of computer games in the UK, in particular those whom play 'heavily' and those whom have played since youth. His research aims to analyse the socio-cultural context that has given rise to games culture, and investigate the part computer games play in forming the cultural identity of their players. He is using a mixed-method research approach in studying the gaming audience, combining questionnaire-based survey, focus groups and interviews. Anthony is currently an editor for the Glasgow based postgraduate journal eSharp, and has previously been published in The Kelvingrove Review.