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Staff Profile

Dr Tina Sikka

Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies

  • Email: tina.sikka@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: 01912084500 ext. 82491
  • Address: Department of Media, Culture and Heritage
    School of Arts and Cultures
    Rm 2.84 Armstrong Building
    NE17RU
Background

Dr. Tina Sikka is currently a Lecturer in Media, Culture and Heritage at the University of Newcastle in the UK. Her current research interests include the ways in which gender and culture intersects with science and technology using food and environmental technologies as case studies. She also has expertise in sexuality studies in the areas of consent, gender based violence, and restorative justice.  She previously taught Communication and other Social Science courses at Fraser International College, Simon Fraser University and other institutions across the Lower Mainland, British Columbia. Dr. Sikka completed a 2 year SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Simon Fraser University in 2012 after completing a PhD. in Communication and Culture from York University in Toronto, Canada.


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EDUCATION

School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2012)
Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Feenberg (Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology)

Faculty of Communication and Culture, York University, Toronto, Ontario
PhD. Faculty of Arts, in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture (2004-2008)
Dissertation title: ‘Recuperating Politics from Derrida: A Pragmatist Critique.’
Advisor: Dr. Myles Ruggles

Department of Mass Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
MA, Journalism and Mass Communication (2003-2004)
Thesis title: ‘The Relationship between Technology and the Future in Modern and Postmodern Thought.’
Advisor: Dr. Sheryl Hamilton

School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Communications (2002-2003)

School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
BA in Communications (1997-2002)

Teaching
Lecturer in Media, Culture, Heritage, January 2017-present, Newcastle University
Race and Identity
Research Methodologies (UG & PG)
Representations: Identity, Culture and Society 
Food and Gender
Politics, Power and Communication

Lecturer, 2010-2017, Fraser International College at Simon Fraser University
Introduction to Communication
Communication and Social Change

Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
Technology and Gender (2013-2015)
Introduction to Communication Studies (2010-2012)
Introducing to Mass Communication (2012)
Social Dimensions of Advertising (2012)

Lecturer, Simon Fraser University, Fraser International College
Social Dimensions of Advertising (2010)
Introduction to Mass Communication (2010)

Lecturer, Simon Fraser University, Fraser International College, University of the Fraser Valley
Introduction to Mass Communication (2010)
Media and Audiences (2010)
Political Economy (2010)

Lecturer, Simon Fraser University and Fraser International College
International Communication (2009)
Introduction to Communication (2009)

TA, Simon Fraser University
Social Production of Popular Music (2009)
Media and Audiences (2009)
Introduction to Communication (2007, 2008)
Social Design (2007, 2008)

Course Director, York University
Communication Theory; 3rd year (2006-2007)

TA, York University
Introduction to Communication (2006)
Technology and Culture/New Media (2004-2007)

RA, York University
Supervisor: Dr. Myles Ruggles. 
Intellectual property rights, philosophy of bioinformatics, genetic modification of foodcrops (corn) in Mexico (2004-2007).

RA, York University
Supervisor: Dr. Rosemary Coombe 
Restructured Dr. Coombe’s doctoral course in cultural studies and her graduate course on transnationalism (2006-2007).

TA, Carleton University
Introduction to Mass Communication (2003-2004)

TA, Simon Fraser University 
Introduction to Communication (2002)
Readings in Marshall McLuhan (2003)
Qualitative Methodologies (2003)

Publications