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FM Research Group Members

If you’d like to contact individual group members to discuss PhD supervision, media appearances, or other research questions, you can find their contact details by following the link to their Open University profile.

For general inquiries about the research group, please contact Dr Rebecca Harrison.

Professor Paul Anand

Paul is a Professor in Economics and Philosophy and has a masters degree in Photography. He has wide-ranging interests which include the use of arts, media and digital case-studies in the teaching of economics.

Dr Manuella Blackburn

Manuella is a Lecturer in Film and Media. As a specialist in creativity with sound and digital media, her practice-based outputs explore sonic collages, audio-visual experiments and multi-media formats. Manuella’s text-based publications cover digital sampling techniques, intercultural creativity, and collaborative authorship.

Dr Elayne Chaplin

Elayne is a Staff Tutor in the History Department, with an academic background in film/media history. Current research interests are focused on representations of gender, criminality and victimhood, with a recent publication examining the evolution of Yakuza masculinity in Japanese cinema (from the silent era to the twenty-first century), and an upcoming chapter in an edited collection on true crime.

Dr Rebecca Harrison

Rebecca is Lecturer in Film and Media with expertise in film history. Her research focuses on media technologies and how people’s experiences of cinema (and its related industries) are affected by factors such as gender, race, class, and sexuality. She has experience as a festival curator, and her film journalism appears across a range of print and broadcast media.

Dr Ben Winters

Ben is Senior Lecturer in Music. His main area of research expertise is on Hollywood film music of the studio era, and the film scores of Erich Korngold, though he has also published on issues pertaining to music’s narrative source as found in all forms of screen media.