Personal statement

Tina is Module Leader for ‘Global Communication Strategies’ and ‘Promotional Media’ in Media Communications, and she also teaches on ‘The Moving Image’ for Film and Screen Studies. She has taught at UWE and the University of Leicester, worked as a researcher for 25 years, and has run her own company. 

Tina completed her PhD at the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, based at the University of Leicester. Her research explored how writers of fiction make a living as cultural workers, with a particular focus on the function of discourses of writing employed by writers.

She is the author of the book, Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK (2024) published by Palgrave Macmillan, and has recently written chapters for edited collections on writing as silenced cultural work and co-operatives as models for fairer creative work. 

Tina has just been awarded HEQR funding to begin investigations into the topic of rejection in the creative and cultural industries. She has worked on numerous research projects focused on the creative industries including CCERR at UWE which looked at the resilience of creative microbusinesses across the UK, and the Gender Equity Project at University of Glasgow which analysed gender equity policies in the screen industries in the UK, Germany and Canada.

Her research interests lie in discourses and experiences of creativity, and alternative (fairer, more equal) models of work in the creative industries. 

Tina is the Book Reviews Editor for the Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD, Cultural Economies, University of Leicester
  • MA, Media Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London
  • BA (Hons), Sociology and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex

Professional memberships

  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Member of MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
  • Member of the Society of Authors.

Other external roles

Book Review Editor for the Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

Areas of expertise

  • Cultural work
  • Creative industries

Teaching subjects

  • Global Communication Strategies
  • Promotional Media
  • The Moving Image
  • Media and Communications Research Methods
  • Final Project Supervision

Research and academic outputs

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