• Undergraduates
  
  • Introduction to Media Theory
  • Learning from Television
  • Media Education
  • Undergraduate Dissertations
• Postgraduates
  
  • Student Teachers
  • MA (Television Studies)
  • Research Students

Undergraduates

ED10510: An Introduction to Media Theory (Year One)

• 'A Critical Examination of Claims Concerning the ‘Impact’ of Print': Daniela Lesley Evans
  
• 'Is Literacy Over-rated?'
  • Emily Howarth
    
  • Anna Brill
    
• Marshall McLuhan's 'Global Village': Benjamin Symes
  
• 'Photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are' (Susan Sontag)
  • Sue Edwards
  • Caroline Stevens
• 'What is the Transmission Model of Interpersonal Communication and What is Wrong with it?': Karen Reynolds
  
• Watching Television as an Active Process of Interpretation
  
  • Katrina Alcock
    
  • Mark Peace
    




Learning from Television (Year Two)

• Case-Studies of How People in the Same Household Differ in Their Use of Television:
  
  • Catherine Langan
    
  • Dewi Rheinallt Owen
    
  • Matthew Wood
    
  • Lesley Sands
    
  • Nicola Starke
    
• 'Children, Television and Gender Roles':
  • Elena Beasley
    
  • Helen Ingham
    
• 'The Construction of Reality in Television News': Mark Peace
  
• 'Differences in Sense-Making Among TV News Viewers': Lesley Sands
  
• 'Male Viewers of Soap Operas': Anna Prescott
  
• 'The Portrayal of Gays and Lesbians on TV, and How Viewers React': Matthew Wood
  
• 'The Portrayal of Women on Television':
  • Paul Harper
    
  • Helen Ingham
    
• 'The Strengths and Limitations of Interviews as a Research Technique for Studying Television Viewers': Alison Oatey
  
• 'Television Viewing and Violent Behaviour': Alison Oatey
  
• 'Viewers' Attitudes to Prejudice in The Simpsons': Coral Smith
  
• 'Watching TV as an Active Process: Northern Exposure': Benjamin Symes
  
• 'What Do We Learn from Television Quizzes': Virginia Mason
  
• 'Why are Soap Operas so Popular?':
  
  • Merris Griffiths
    
  • Paula Lewis
    
  • Sarah Richards
    
  • Helena Robson
    
• Why People Watch TV: Donna M Jones
  




ED30610: Media Education (Year Three)

• 'Intertextuality in Advertisements for Silk Cut Cigarettes': Catherine R Langan
  
• 'Moral Panics'
  • Lesley Sands
    
  • Matthew Wood
    
• 'Le Parfum de Washing-Up: A Semiotic Analysis of Two Ads for Persil Liquid': Ruth McKeown
  
• 'A Semiotic Analysis of a Cosmetics Ad and its Interpretation by Readers': Nadin Reschke
  
• 'A Semiotic Analysis of a Newspaper Story': Helen Gambles
  
• 'A Semiotic Analysis of Magazine Ads for Men's Fragrances': Alexander Clare
  
• 'A Semiotic Analysis of Diesel Print Ads': Merris Griffiths
  
• 'A Semiotic Analysis of Three Beer Advertisements': Michael Steven
  
• 'A Semiotic Analysis of Wallis Clothes Ads': Sarah Richards
  
• 'What Value Is There In Studying Advertisements?'
  
  • Helen Ingham
    
  • Rebecca Howard
    
  • Sharon Owen
    




Undergraduate Dissertations

• 'Scanning Star Trek: The Next Generation': Michael Wegerer
  
• 'Television, Gender Stereotypes and Young Viewers: A Case Study of an Eight-Year-Old Boy': Lyn Harte
  

Postgraduates

PGCE Secondary Students (Student Teachers)

• 'Children’s Television Viewing Habits': Melissa Lander
  




MA in Television Studies

• 'How Different Viewers Make Sense of TV Ads': Philip Moran
  
• 'Viewer "Identification" with Characters in Television and Film Fiction': Peter van Beneden
  




Research Students (MPhil/PhD)

• Review of Jude Collins et al. (1992): 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Box? Children and TV Advertising in Four Countries': Merris Griffiths
  
• Review of Sut Jhally (1987): 'Advertising Codes and Fetishism : An Empirical Study': Merris Griffiths
  
• Review of Renate L Welch et al. (1979): 'Subtle Sex-Role Cues in Children's Commercials': Merris Griffiths
  
• Review of Lois J Smith (1994): 'A Content Analysis of Gender Differences in Children's Advertising': Merris Griffiths
  
• Review of John Doolittle & Robert Pepper (1975): 'Children's TV Ad. Content -1974': Merris Griffiths
  
• Review of R Stephen Craig (1992): 'The Effect of Television Day Part on Gender Portrayals in Television Commercials: A Content Analysis': Merris Griffiths
  
• Review of Philippe Cattin & Subhash C Jain (1979): 'Content Analysis of Children's Commercials': Merris Griffiths
  
• Review of B Carol Eaton & Joseph R Dominick (1991): 'Product Related Programming and Children's TV - A Content Analysis': Merris Griffiths
  
• Review of Richard H Kolbe & Darrell Meuhling (1995): 'Gender Roles & Children's Television Advertising': Merris Griffiths