Staff Profiles

Carol Byrne Jones B.A., P.G.C.E. (Cardiff), M.A. (Sheffield)
Carol has extensive experience in the production and direction of film and television programmes. For the past 25 years, her work has included feature film, drama, documentaries, and children's programmes in Welsh and English for local and international markets. A Skillset External Evaluator, she has been closely involved with the development of national vocational qualifications for broadcast and new media industries, examining the "match" between academic / vocational training and industrial needs. Her screenplay adaptation of T. Llew Jones' "Dirgelwch yr Ogof" will be broadcast on S4C as their "Christmas special." Her research interests include story-telling, narrative practices and structures as expressions of cultural and national identity. She is a director of "Small World Theatre", a locally based company that uses puppets and mixed media to work with developing countries on social, cultural and environmental issues.

Geraint Davies
Manager of the University of Wales, Lampeter's Media Centre (see section on Facilities and Equipment), Geraint has over twenty years' experience in video production for broadcast and corporate video.

Trevor Harris B.Sc. (Ext London)
With over twenty years' experience in a design and publishing environment, Trevor teaches electronic publishing skills which range from Desktop Publishing through to New Media. A Mac user since the advent of computer based DeskTop Publishing, he supervises the Department of Film and Media's dedicated suite of Macintosh computers and ensures that the facility is kept up to date with industry standard software. His current interests include the emergence of digital video technologies as interdisciplinary tools in education, the advent of ubiquitous computing using wireless technology and extending the reach of broadband Internet access into rural areas.

Simon Horrocks M.A. (Edinburgh), M.A. (Warwick)
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. He is currently writing a book about contemporary popular music culture, due to be published by Arnold in 2003.

Robert Shail B.A., M.A. (University of the West of England)
Robert recently completed his PhD on representations of masculinity in 1960s British cinema with Exeter University. His particular areas of teaching specialism and research interest include stardom and gender in film, British film history, film genres and film theory. He has published work on both British and American stars and on masculinity in film.
