MA Creative Media Prizes

September 1, 2009 by Tara Brabazon

A series of prizes have been founded for the MA Creative Media.

Adrian Sherwood Prize for the Best MA Creative Media Dissertation/Creative Work
Adrian Sherwood is an English record producer, performer and remixer. He is a founder of many record labels including On-U Sound Records. He has created new relationships between reggae, punk and new wave and is best known for his work in dub, particularly promoting Jamaican artists including Bim Sherman, Mikey Dread and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. Sherwood produced the Perry album Time Boom X De Devil Dead. He has also worked with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Primal Scream, Air and Asian Dub Foundation. He has released two solo albums: Never Trust a Hippy and Becoming a Cliché.

Alan Jenkins Prize for the best part time/distance education student
Alan Jenkins is the Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at Oxford Brookes University, Fellow of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research at Warwick University and Oxford Brookes, and consultant on teaching and research links for the Higher Education Academy. He has developed models and strategies for teaching-led research and is actively involved in adapting theories and agendas of “undergraduate research” to the higher education sector in the United Kingdom

Alexander Doty Prize for Queerying ICTs in Everyday Life
Alexander Doty is Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. Working in GLBTQ film and media studies, he is best known for his monographs Making Things Perfectly Queer, Flaming Classics and the co-edited Out in Culture. His areas of expertise include feminist film theory, reception theory and star studies. He recently edited Camera Obscura’s “Fabulous! The Diva Issues” for 2008/9.

Ben Agger Prize for Mediating the Environment
Ben Agger is the Professor of Sociology and Humanities and Director of the Centre for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. Author of The discourse of domination, Cultural Studies as Critical Theory, Gender, Culture and Power, Critical Social Theories and Public Sociology, The Virtual Self, Fast Families Virtual Children and Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, he is also the editor of the journal Fast Capitalism. His most recent book is The Sixties at 40: Leaders and Activists Remember and Look Forward.

Camilla and Roger McGuinn Prize for Sonic Media
Roger McGuinn was a founder of The Byrds, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a prolific solo performer who has committed to the preservation of folk music through digital platforms, most notably through his Folk Den website. Camilla McGuinn, after marrying Roger in1978, began working with him in 1981 as his road manager. They also write music together and co-produced the 2001 Grammy nominated Treasures from the Folk Den. Camilla maintains mcguinn.com, writing all the copy and providing the photographs.

Carolyn Forsman Prize for Participatory Media Production for Social Change
Carolyn Forsman gained a BA in mathematics and philosophy at NYU and an MLS from Berkeley. She has held the roles of public reference librarian, library educator and – later – became a jewellery designer with the goal of promoting freedom of speech and literacy. In 2001, the American Library Association granted her the Freedom to Read Foundation Roll of Honor Award and, in 2009, she won the Museum Store Association Service Award. Her work is the embodiment of the project of both this module and the entire MA: to remove any distinction between ‘analysis’ and ‘production.’ Please refer to: http://www.carolynforsman.com/splash.cfm

Community Literacy Journal Prize for Developing Community Media
The Community Literacy Journal is an international publication derived from a collaboration between Michigan Technological University and the University of Arizona. The goal of the journal is to create new methodologies and research agendas that align the experiences and expertise of literacy workers, literacy academics and community practitioners. The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) awarded the Community Literacy Journal the best New Journal Award at the MLA conference in December 2008. The CLJ wishes to recognize the best MA Creative Media student in Developing Community Media, with the student being featured on their website, along with a sample of their work. This prize is the foundation of future collaborations between Brighton, Michigan Tech and Arizona.

Graeme Turner Prize for Media Ethics
Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. He is a past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Convenor of the ARC Cultural Research Network and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies. A current Federation Fellow, he is researching “Television in the post-broadcast era,” theorizing the role of old and new media in the development of national communities. Professor Turner is also a member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, the only Humanities scholar on the Council and only the second since its inception.

Fred Inglis Prize for Media Literacies
Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield. He was formerly Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick and has been a member of Princeton’s School of Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is active in the media, contributing to BBC Radio, The Independent and the New Statesman. His area of interest is how we create meaning, value and consciousness from our experiences. Having completed a book on celebrity for Princeton University Press, he is currently a Leverhulme Fellow writing a biography of R.G. Collingwood. Professor Inglis remains focused on the relationship between politics and ethics.

Henry Giroux Prize for Teaching, Learning and Writing through Popular Culture
Henry Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, having previously held professorial posts at Boston University, Miami University and Penn State University. He is one of the founders of critical pedagogy, developing the relationship between cultural studies, higher education, youth studies and media studies. He has published 35 books and 300 academic articles, including his recent The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex. In 2002, Palmer listed Giroux as one of the Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education.

Julie Burchill Prize for the Best Student in the MA Creative Media
Julie Burchill began her journalistic career at the NME but has worked for the major English newspapers including the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail and The Guardian. During the 1980s, she wrote about style, politics and fashion for The Face. She has published a range of books including Ambition, No Exit and Sugar Rush, which became a Channel 4 television series. Her autobiography was titled I knew I was right. Her recent books include Made in Brighton and Sweet. Her capacity to create new modes and models of writing about popular culture has rendered her influential far beyond the profession of journalism.

Leonie Sandercock Prize for City Imaging
Leonie Sandercock is a theorist of urban planning and multiculturalism. She is currently the Director of the School of Communication and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. Her research expertise is in the area of participatory planning, fear and/in the city, cultural diversity and social integration. She is discovering ways to insert storytelling into planning theory and practice. Besides publishing many books, including her two Cosmopolis monographs, she has also written monographs about sport, the labour movement and is an active screenwriter. In 2005, Sandercock received two awards: The Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning and The Davidoff Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Sarah Pink Prize for Practising Media Research
Sarah Pink is the Professor of Social Sciences and the Sociology Programme Director at Loughborough University. She is known for her development of ethnographic research methods, with attention to visual methodologies and ‘sensory’ experiences. Her interests in methodology are matched by her range of ethnographic studies, including Cittaslow and the Slow Food movement. Her goal is to create productive relationships between applied and academic anthropology. Her new book is titled Doing Sensory Ethnography.

Here are the 2009/2010 winners!

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