Staff Profiles

Trevor Harris BSc, PGCtHE, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media Production
Trevor Harris is the Programme Co-ordinator for Media Production on the Lampeter Campus of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches electronic publishing and design skills, ranging from print-based Desktop Publishing through to Interactive New Media, with a particular specialism in Panoramic Digital Photography and interactive narratives for games and online media.

Robert Shail BA, PGCtHE, FHEA,  MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture
Robert Sahil is the Programme Co-ordinator for Film Studies on the Lampeter Campus of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He 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.

Steven Gerrard BA
Lecturer in Film and Media
Steve is the Programme Coordinator for Media Studies on the Lampeter Campus
Steves research examines the cultural and social impact of the Carry On film series upon British cinema and society. His interests also include Doctor Who, Hammer Films and horror in general, and British film comedy  most notably the films of Will Hay, Ealing and the British Sex Comedy. He is fascinated by the way that these constructions of television and cinema have made a profound impact upon British culture. So ingrained are these iconographical constructions that they have, in many ways, been shaped by and have themselves shaped ideas of what it is to be British.

Brett Aggersberg BSc, PGCLTHE, PGCtHE, MA
Lecturer in Film and Media
After working in the media events industry producing videos, graphics and animation Brett joined the University of Wales in 2003. In addition to his teaching and research he works freelance with artists as a technology consultant and web designer. He also works with various cultural and creative industries initiatives through the University Research and development office and the Coracle Project.

Susan Drake BA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Film and Media
Susan lectures on both film within the School of Creative Arts on the Carmarthen Campus. The topics include British cinema, European cinema, postmodern cinema, silent cinema, and the theoretical analysis of film. Her research interests at present are focused upon the self-reflexive dimensions of films by male directors such as Mike Hodges and Sergio Leone, with particular relation to the cinematic representation of violence, and its implications for the masculine identities created and critiqued within the film texts.
