D.P.Hobson@wlv.ac.uk
Dorothy Hobson was educated at the University of Birmingham where she studied English Literature and Language. Her post graduate research was at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies where she was awarded an MA in Contemporary Cultural Studies. She also studied for a Ph.D. but wrote her first book Crossroads The Drama of a Soap Opera before completing the Ph.D. She has taught in a number of academic institutions in the Midlands and has lectured in Britain, Ireland, Europe. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies and Course Leader of the MA Contemporary Media, which she developed. Teaching areas are Drama, Soap Opera, Popular Television, Television Audiences, Television News and Public Service Broadcasting, Channel 4 Television, Research Methods. Between 1982 and 1999 she worked as a broadcasting consultant for various broadcasting and cultural organisations including Channel 4 Television, BBC Drama, British Film Institute, BBC Birmingham. She is Vice Chair of the Midland Centre of the Royal Television where she heads the Events group and organises regular programmes concentrating on programmes, technology, production and digital futures. She is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society. She has written books, academic and journalistic articles and broadcast in Britain and abroad on various aspects of television. Her book Soap Opera was published by Polity in 2003 She is a regular contributor to radio and television on media subjects. She has appeared on all British broadcast media and written for newspapers both tabloid and broadsheet.
I am currently researching a book about Adolescents and the Media.
Dorothy returned to teaching in 1999 at the University of Wolverhampton after spending a number of years as a consultant to Channel 4 Television and writing research consultancy documents for various broadcasters.
Her approach to teaching is to combine her research interests and allow them to inform her academic developments. She is committed to involving the broadcasting industry in the study of media at Wolverhampton and many of her modules benefit from visiting professional lecturers from the media industries who share their unique and essential knowledge with students. She is committed to research and publishing.
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