I am the Programme Coordinator for MA Journalism and New Media, which was validated in 2011 together with MA International Journalism.

Currently I lead or have input on the following units:

• Web Communication
  BA (Hons) Communication and Media, Level I
• Citizen Journalism and Social Reporting
  MA Journalism and New Media, Level M
• New Media Innovation
  MA Journalism and New Media, Level M
• Environment, Conflict and Crisis News
  MA Journalism and New Media, Level M
  MA International Journalism, Level M
• Dissertation and project supervision
  MA Journalism and New Media, Level M
  MA International Journalism, Level M
  MA Multimedia Journalism, Level M
  BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism, Level H
  BA (Hons) Communication and Media, Level H

For PhD supervision, please refer to my research page.

On occasion I publish posts relating to pedagogy or my teaching on the blog. Recent entries:

• Using WordPress as a news website v2 (list of 32 useful plugins)

  William Davis and Lauren Rabaino's posts about how Bangor Daily News adopted WordPress (and indeed Google Docs*) as part of their publishing workflow (it even feeds InDesign) has inspired me to revisit my own post about using WordPress as a news websi...

• Student Wiki Pages: reflecting on new e-learning strategy for collaborative student notes

  Below are parts of a formal report I have written about my experience of using wiki tools as part of a wider e-learning strategy. You can read about the background to the experiment in part 1 and part 2 of this series. Summative assessment component (...

• Edit Flow - newsroom workflow plugin for WordPress

  I have just come across the Edit Flow plugin. Currently at version 0.5.3 it promises to deliver a unified plugin for implementing a newsroom workflow within WordPress. In other words: Custom post statuses (e.g. assigned, draft, pending review, pitc...

• Student wiki notes - additional guidelines

  The Student Wiki Pages experiment I described previously is going very well so far, with students collaboratively producing notes of (mostly) very high quality and using the comment facility to discuss issues that come up in the lecture and their readi...

• Student lecture notes wiki, revised e-learning strategy

  Teaching starts on Monday and I've been busy rethinking some of my e-learning strategies for the Communication Skills unit taken by our first year BA (Hons) Communication and Media and BA (Hons) English students. Despite the rather odd title (set be...

• Using WordPress as a news website

  This is the start of a blog post I never finished before I joined Bournemouth University in January. Publishing it here as it was anyway, since whatever is there might still be of use. Comments on each plugin are from official descriptions. If you want...

• Will the paperless office pollute more?

  We finally convinced the School to introduce recycling bins in our part of the University! Well, trialling it at least - one floor of the building initially and then the rest of the School if it works out. You've got to start somewhere, right? Well, m...