Teaching

I have recently designed or substantially redesigned three modules: Media and Society, which takes a detailed yet expansive look at what media are and why we worry about them; Media, Technology and Everyday Life, which emphasizes those sociological and ethnographic approaches which investigate how we encounter and use media and technology through everyday routines and settings; and The Mediated City, which encourages students to examine some comparatively unconventional forms and sites of ‘media’ as they appear across urban spaces and city life.

In collaboration with my departmental colleagues at Birkbeck, I am contributing or have contributed to other undergraduate modules such as The Press in Britain, Media Analysis and Journalism and Politics, alongside postgraduate modules such as Theoretical Perspectives on Media and Creative Industries: Theory and Context. Sophie Hope, Lorraine Lim and I also recently co-organized a special postgraduate workshop series titled Doing Research Amongst Technologies: Multimedia, Mulitple Methods and Research Practice Today.

In the past I have also taught on (or helped administer) a range of courses in the areas of urban studies and geography, including: Contemporary Urbanism (London School of Economics); Readings in Geography (King’s College London); Directed Readings in Geography (King’s College London); Cultural Landscapes – North American Style (King’s College London); Researching Geography (King’s College London); and Understanding Cities (The Open University).