Lecturer in Audiovisual Cultures: BSc/FD Audiovisual Technology & BA Film & Video Production
I started teaching in 1994/95 and after fourteen years of FE, then mixed FE/HE, and a four-year stint in management, I began teaching exclusively on HE courses in 2008/9. Between 2002 and 2012 I was also an advanced practitioner/T&L Mentor. I have taught since 1994 at MC but not always full time and between 2009 and 2019, I also taught at Northumbria University. I have taught undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Media Cultures, Music Technology and Production, Performance & Events, Film Studies & Film & Video Production, and Audiovisual Technology. I have previously also spent over ten years as Programme Leader on a range of degrees.
My career has been primarily focused on teaching, but I have always been a focused scholar and between 2009 and 2014, I was very research active and published accordingly. In recent years, I have concentrated on both teaching and research in Communication, Professionalism and Professional Development in the Audiovisual Industry. This interest has yet to result in publication outcomes, not least because this is a new subject area with no real established research field to draw upon. Discussions are underway with colleagues and key industry figures, including AVIXA, the professional training body for AV, as to how a new research field can be set up and established.
Key research interests
Formerly Cinema and Modernity; Electronic and Experimental Music Cultures. Currently Audiovisual Aesthetics; Professionalism, Communication & Research in the Audiovisual Sector.
Current research projects
Currently discussing with colleagues and key industry practitioners how to set up and establish a research field in the Audiovisual Sector.
Areas of specialism
Audiovisual Aesthetics; Post War and Postmodern Cinema; Electronic and Experimental Music Cultures; Professionalism, Communication & Research in the Audiovisual Sector.
Publications
- Journal Paper – ‘The Man Machine: Technology and Time/Space Compression in Electronic Music’, – Backpackers Vol 1, Issue 1 – July 2009
- Journal Paper ‘Bats, Bombs, and Toxic Waste in America’s Purloined Landscape’ – CULTURAL POLITICS Volume 8, Issue 1 2012 Duke University Press
- Journal Paper ‘Crisis, Crisis, Everywhere!’ in Parallax, Volume 18:1, pp. 116-120, 2012, Routledge
- Book Chapter ‘Trauma and the Technological Accident in Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter’ in Dramatising Disaster: An Edited Collection on Disaster in Contemporary Cinema & Television, Cambridge Scholars, April 2013
- Journal Paper Hypermodernism and Law of Proximity’ – in The Virilio Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, 2013
Email: r.bullard@mbro.ac.uk