Media, Culture and Genomics - Flagship Project
The Research Team
Principal Investigators
Jenny Kitzinger is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. Jenny's research spans audience reception processes, textual analysis and journalistic production practices. Her substantive research has focused on the media and health (e.g. AIDS, breast cancer), science and 'risk' (e.g. around genetic research) and on the media and sexual violence (especially sexual violence against children).
Maureen McNeil is Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Studies in the Institute for Women's Studies at Lancaster University. She has a background in the history of science, having published on the scientific, political and cultural dimensions of the industrial revolution and on the development of evolutionary theory. She has a long-term interest in the politics of reproduction and of reproductive technologies Her other research interests and publications include work on the gender politics of expertise, Foucault and feminism, foetal alcohol syndrome and 'crack' babies. She is currently completing a book on the Cultural Studies of Technoscience (for Routledge).
Research Associates
Joan Haran has a BA (Hons) in Literature and History from North Staffordshire Polytechnic, an MA (Dist) in Gender, Society and Culture from Birkbeck College and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick. Her key research interests revolve around the representation of gender and technology, currently focusing on news media representations of the intersection of assisted reproductive technologies with genetic technologies.
Kate O’Riordan has been seconded to CESAGen for three years from the Centre for Continuing Education, at the University of Sussex where she is a Lecturer in Media Studies, to work on this Flagship Project. Her research background is in digital media, and internet research and she has published on research ethics in this field. Previous research has included work on representations of gendered bodies, technologies, sexualities and queer theory across a range of sites. She is currently working on intersections between biotechnology and information technology and the intersection of the biological and the social in media discourses.
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