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Staff Profile

Dr Barbara Henderson

Degree Programme Director, MA Media and Journalism

Research


General areas:

  • Journalism and other arts as activism
  • True crime reporting on all media 
  • Feminist perspectives 

 

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS:

Editor: special edition of Ethical Space on True Crime, ethics and the media –January 2023

‘Losing on Aggregate: women in sports broadcasting’: chapter for Palgrave publication on Women in the Media, edited by Martina Topic (pending: April 2023)

Chapter on arts activism for Rowman and Littlefield series, Resist! Performance and Politics in the age of Trump and Brexit (November 2020):  https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786615718/Resist-Protest-Media-and-Popular-Culture-in-the-Brexit-Trump-Era

‘Get Off Your Arse: campaigning choirs and singing newspapers’: Journal of Language and Politics (July 2019)

‘You Choose: Writing as Referendum for Reluctant Readers’: Writing in Education, September 2015

‘Subverting the Pyramid’: Writing in Education, February 2014

Reviews, various, for International Research in Children’s Literature and the Journal of Children’s Literature Studies

Published newspaper and (BBC) broadcast journalism, 1979 – 2008


FICTION: In Too Deep (Legend Press, 2013)

                This Little Piggy (Legend Press, 2014)

                The Serpent House (Curious Fox, 2014)

                My Cousin Faustina (ReadZone, 2015)

                The Misper (The Conrad Press, March 2018)

 

CONFERENCES:

Organiser:

June 2022: Newcastle University. True crime and the media, international online conference.

Papers presented at the following academic conferences:

September 2021: Cardiff University. Broadcasting from my bedroom: teaching journalism during lockdown.

July 2020: Advance HE. Ten minutes to change your life (employability in creative writing and journalism).

May 2019: Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. Performance and Power: Cultural Studies Association annual conference.

March 2019: University of Memphis, USA. Balancing the Mix: Popular Music and Social Justice.

July 2017: Toronto, Canada. International Research Society for Children’s Literature: Possible and Impossible Children.

July 2017: Newcastle University. English Shared Futures.

November 2016: Durham. National Association of Writers in Education.

June 2016: The Great Writing Conference, Imperial College, London.

June 2014: University of Hawaii at Manoa. 17th Biennial Conference of Literature and Hawaii’s Children.

November 2013: York. National Association of Writers in Education.

September 2012: University of Leeds. Multidirectional Memory.

September 2011: University of Hull. Contemporary Women Writers’ Association. Time and Space.

September 2011: University of Cork. Backward Glances.

June 2010: University of Bedfordshire. Creative Writing conference.

October 2009: University of Newcastle. Past Continuous Children’s historical literature symposium

  • (Also helped organise this event).
Teaching

Currently:

  • MA Media and Journalism
  • UG dissertations 
  • PhD co-supervision

Also:

  • Extensive HE experience of creative writing teaching 
Publications