Find a research supervisor in Film Studies

Dr Richard House

Dr Richard House

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Long-form fiction and screenwriting, and I have an interest in writing for new forms (performance, live art, and for digital platforms).

Dr Richard Langley

Dr Richard Langley

Head of Department of Film and Creative Writing
Assistant Professor in Film

Film production; documentary; digital media; audio-visual academia; social action filmmaking.

Dr Catherine Lester

Dr Catherine Lester

Associate Professor in Film and Television

My current research focuses on the intersections between children’s culture and the horror genre. My other teaching and research interests include children’s cinema, animation, and representation in film and television.

Dr Carleigh Morgan

Dr Carleigh Morgan

Assistant Professor in Film

Animation, production studies, new media, cinematic materiality, video games, film history, feminist theory, labour, art history, digital culture, visual effects, expanded cinemas, and philosophies of film and media.

Dr Chris Nunn

Dr Chris Nunn

Assistant Professor of Film (Education Focused)

Chris Nunn is the former Festival Director of Screentest: The UK’s National Student Film Festival, and has been championing aspiring filmmaking talent for nearly a decade. Passionate about filmmaking education, he has recently completed his PhD entitled Towards a New Film Pedagogy: Recrafting Undergraduate Filmmaking Education for an Expanded Field (2019) and plans to continue and broaden ...

Dr Alaina Schempp

Dr Alaina Schempp

Lecturer in Film

My academic film research focuses on cognition, emotions, and timing in moving images. I specialise in the micro-analysis of comic and suspense timing in contemporary cinema, especially genres such as comedy, action, horror, and the suspense-thriller. My other research interests include analytic-cognitive media studies (e.g. video games, comics, and online video) as well as analytic-cognitive ...

Professor Rob Stone

Professor Rob Stone

Professor of Film Studies
Co-director of B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies

World Cinema, European Cinema, American Independent Cinema, Spanish, Basque, Cuban and Latin American Cinema, Film Theory. Film and Philosophy, The Politics of Film Aesthetics.

Professor James Walters

Professor James Walters

Professor of Screen Aesthetics and Criticism

Fantasy film and television, film aesthetics and close analysis, television studies, political satire, performance, Hollywood, film and television criticism.

Dr Andrew Watts

Dr Andrew Watts

Reader in French Studies
Head of Taught Postgraduate, LCAHM

Adaptation theory and practice; French cinema; contemporary European cinema.

Dr Christina Wilkins

Dr Christina Wilkins

Lecturer in Film and Creative Writing

Contemporary film, television, and literature. I have a particular research focus on adaptation studies and mental health, as well as queer representation and the body.