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Dr James Mahon

Profile summary

  • Regional Academic Staff
  • Staff Tutor in Film & Media
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • School of Creative Industries
  • Film & Media
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Professional biography

Dr James Mahon joined the Open University in September 2024. He has previously worked for institutions in Scotland including the University of Stirling, University of Glasgow and University of the West of Scotland, the latter where he programme led the BA in Sports Journalism/Journalism to top  the NSS in Scotland and amongst the highest performing media courses in the UK.

His doctoral and postdoctoral work explores digital media, mobile journalism and internationalisation in communication studies and subsequent impact for pedagogy and higher education.

He is a senior fellow of the HEA and is currentlly a senior fellow of the John Schofield Trust.

Mahon has worked extensively as a TV reporter and presenter for the last 15 years including for CBS and PBS affiliates in the US, UTV, ITV and ITN in the UK and RTE and TG4 in Ireland.

He has won more than a dozen awards as a broadcast journalist and as a documentary filmmaker and more recently as a podcaster.

 

Research interests

Digital Media

Mobile Journalism

Media and Society

Communication Studies

Practice-Based Research

Curriculum Development

Teaching interests

Feature Reporting

Social Media Storytelling

Documentary Journalism

Creative Practice

Impact and engagement

Mahon's media work and reporting regularly features in regional and national TV outputs along with international film festival runs.

He has written for The Conversation and published in conjunction with the Royal Society in Edinburgh.

His latest journal articles explore media pedagogy and he has presented at the World Journalism Education Council, Global Media Education Summit and at AJE UK national events.

External collaborations

University of Derby, External Examiner, Journalism 

University of Sussex, External Examiner, Film and Media

University of Glasgow, Visiting Lecturer, Digital Media

ITN Productions, Journalist

Bauer Media, Consultant + Trainer

Scottish Qualifications Authority, HN Media Expert

 

University of Sulaimani, Iraq, Visiting Lecturer of Digital Media

Chattanooga State College, TN, USA, Visiting Professor of Journalism

University of Tennessee, TN, USA, Visiting Professor of Journalism