Dr James Graham
| Name | Dr James Graham |
|---|---|
| Job title | Deputy Dean in Education |
| Research institute | |
| Primary appointment | HSE School Leadership |
| Email address | j.graham@mdx.ac.uk |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4778-2161 |
| Contact category | Academic staff |
Biography
Biography James is Deputy Dean for Education in the Faculty
of Health, Social Care and Education. A
senior member of the Faculty Leadership Team, James has responsibility across
the Faculty for learning, teaching, assessment, quality assurance and
enhancement, the student experience, student recruitment, academic partnerships
and the programme portfolio.
James works collaboratively as part of a cross-University network of Deputy
Deans, members of the University Executive Team (UET) and the PVC for Education
& Student Experience to help build Middlesex’s performance and reputation for
high-quality learning and teaching, and student experience both in the UK and
internationally.
Prior to this role James was Deputy Dean for Student Success in the Faculty of
Arts and Creative Industries, following periods as Director of Programmes in
Media and Programme Leader for the BA Advertising, PR and Branding programme,
leading its expansion and delivery internationally in London, Dubai, Mauritius
and Vietnam.
James has taught broadly across media and
communications and researches in the fields of teaching and learning and
postcolonial media and literary studies. He was formerly the convenor of the
Promotional Cultures Research Cluster and has supervised four PhDs to
completion in this area. James is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy and was awarded 'Academic Staff Member of the Year' in the Faculty of
Arts and Creative Industries at the 2018 Middlesex Student's Union Student-Led
Teaching Awards.
Teaching James has developed and taught a wide range of modules, including: Brands, Media and Society; Visual Cultures; Writing the City; Advertising and PR in Context; Practices of Promotional Culture; Issues in Promotional Culture; Media for Advertising and Marketing; Marketing: PR and Promotion; Methods and Issues in Developing Research Projects; Independent Project. James has extensive experience of supervising research projects at postgraduate levels, with four PhD completions: Adrian Banting, ‘Forbidden Love in Muslim Britain’ Maitrayee Basu, ‘Assembling Authority: the Rise of Literary Journalism in India’ Giannina Warren, 'Cultural Intermediaries and Place Branding: A Framework for Understanding Their Impact and Influence' Tsitsi Tsopotsa, ‘The impact of colonialism on feminism in Zimbabwean literature through a critical reading of the novels of Charles Mungoshi; Novel: The Other Shadows'
Supervision
| Doctoral Researcher | Award | Status | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenys Edwards | PhD | Enrolled Student | Supervisor | Sep 2022 - Present |
| Emanuela Bove | PhD | Research Project final stages | Supervisor | Sep 2021 - Sep 2026 |
Education and qualifications
Grants
Prizes and Awards
External activities
Research outputs
Apartheid in the digital outdoors? An analysis of the Instagram content of outdoor brands in the US, UK and Scandinavia
Graham, J. and Erikkson Krutrök, M. 2024. Apartheid in the digital outdoors? An analysis of the Instagram content of outdoor brands in the US, UK and Scandinavia. Journal of Leisure Research. 56 (5), pp. 760-780. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2024.2407114Authentic by design: developing students for the talent economy [Presentation]
Barter, P., Megeney, A., Graham, J., Parmar, D. and Mourouti, O. 2023. Authentic by design: developing students for the talent economy [Presentation]. AdvanceHE Assessment and Feedback Symposium 2023. Reading, UK 07 - 07 Nov 2023Promotional cultures [Reference item]
Graham, J. 2026. Promotional cultures [Reference item]. in: The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture: Practices, Sites and Controversies Bloomsbury Publishing.Apartheid in the digital outdoors? Representations of diversity in the Instagram content of outdoor brands from the US, UK and Scandinavia [Presentation]
Graham, J. and Eriksson Krutrok, M. 2023. Apartheid in the digital outdoors? Representations of diversity in the Instagram content of outdoor brands from the US, UK and Scandinavia [Presentation]. ECREA - Contested visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body. Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal 06 - 08 Sep 2023Industry awards, employability and academic success [Panel Discussion]
King, S., Graham, J., Raj Sharma, V., Nawaf, A., Kalla, D. and Slonims, N. 2023. Industry awards, employability and academic success [Panel Discussion]. Middlesex University Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2023: Optimising Employability for the Workplace of the Future - the Role of Educators, Students and Employers. Online 15 - 15 Jun 2023Development of BA Creative Digital Design professional degree apprenticeship [Presentation]
Graham, J. and Riley, T. 2023. Development of BA Creative Digital Design professional degree apprenticeship [Presentation]. CHEAD conference 2023 - Creative Graduates: what is the future now?. Kingston Upon Thames, London, UK 13 - 14 Mar 2023Studying Instagram beyond selfies
Caliandro, A. and Graham, J. 2020. Studying Instagram beyond selfies. Social Media + Society. 6 (2), pp. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120924779Introduction: collaborative production in the creative industries
Graham, J. and Gandini, A. 2017. Introduction: collaborative production in the creative industries. in: Graham, J. and Gandini, A. (ed.) Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries London University of Westminster Press. pp. 1-14The cultural economy of auteurship in independent publishing: the symbolic success of the photobook Ponte City
Graham, J. 2017. The cultural economy of auteurship in independent publishing: the symbolic success of the photobook Ponte City. in: Graham, J. and Gandini, A. (ed.) Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries London University of Westminster Press. pp. 69-85Collaborative production in the creative industries
Graham, J. and Gandini, A. (ed.) 2017. Collaborative production in the creative industries. London University of Westminster Press."A country with land but no habitat": Women, violent accumulation and negative-value in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins
Graham, J. 2017. "A country with land but no habitat": Women, violent accumulation and negative-value in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 53 (3), pp. 355-366. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2017.1337689Introduction to the symposium: Ivan Vladislavić, writing visual culture, and the globalization of a South African "artworld"
Reid, K. and Graham, J. 2017. Introduction to the symposium: Ivan Vladislavić, writing visual culture, and the globalization of a South African "artworld". Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 52 (1), pp. 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989416683426The quiet editor: Ivan Vladislavić and South African cultural production
Graham, J. 2017. The quiet editor: Ivan Vladislavić and South African cultural production. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 52 (1), pp. 56-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989416675017At home in Johannesburg? Rethinking cosmopolitanism through TJ/Double Negative, the joint project between David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić
Graham, J. 2016. At home in Johannesburg? Rethinking cosmopolitanism through TJ/Double Negative, the joint project between David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić. ariel: A Review of International English Literature. 47 (1-2), pp. 193-222. https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2016.0017Decoloniality and development
Graham, J. 2014. Decoloniality and development. Journal of Southern African Studies. 40 (4), pp. 891-893.Review of Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Environment at the margins: environmental and literary studies in Africa. Ohio: Ohio UP, 2011
Graham, J. 2013. Review of Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Environment at the margins: environmental and literary studies in Africa. Ohio: Ohio UP, 2011. Postcolonial Text. 8 (1), pp. 1-3.Unconsoled
Graham, J. 2013. Unconsoled. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics.Postcolonial studies and world literature
Graham, J., Deckard, S. and Niblett, M. 2012. Postcolonial studies and world literature. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 48 (5), pp. 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2012.720803Postcolonial purgatory: the space of migrancy in Dirty Pretty Things
Graham, J. 2011. Postcolonial purgatory: the space of migrancy in Dirty Pretty Things. in: Teverson, A. and Upstone, S. (ed.) Postcolonial spaces: the politics of place in contemporary culture Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 112-128From exceptionalism to social ecology in southern Africa: isolation, intimacy and environment in Nadine Gordimer’s Get a life
Graham, J. 2009. From exceptionalism to social ecology in southern Africa: isolation, intimacy and environment in Nadine Gordimer’s Get a life. in: Wilson, J., Sandru, C. and Lawson West, S. (ed.) Rerouting the postcolonial: new directions for a new millenium London, UK Routledge. pp. 194-205Land and nationalism in fictions from Southern Africa
Graham, J. 2009. Land and nationalism in fictions from Southern Africa. Routledge.Ivan Vladislavic and the possible city.
Graham, J. 2009. Ivan Vladislavic and the possible city. in: Primorac, R. (ed.) African city textualities Routledge.Ivan Vladislavić and the possible city
Graham, J. 2008. Ivan Vladislavić and the possible city. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 44 (4), pp. 333-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449850802410432An interview with Gautam Malkani: Ealing Broadway, 6th November 2007.
Graham, J. 2008. An interview with Gautam Malkani: Ealing Broadway, 6th November 2007. Literary London: interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London. 6 (1).‘this in’t Good Will Hunting’: Londonstani and the market for London’s multicultural fictions.
Graham, J. 2008. ‘this in’t Good Will Hunting’: Londonstani and the market for London’s multicultural fictions. Literary London: interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London. 6 (2).An abject land? Remembering women differently in Doris Lessing’s the grass is singing and Chenjerai Hove’s bones.
Graham, J. 2007. An abject land? Remembering women differently in Doris Lessing’s the grass is singing and Chenjerai Hove’s bones. English Studies in Africa. 50 (1), pp. 57-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138390709487847Exploding Johannesburg: driving in a worldly city.
Graham, J. 2007. Exploding Johannesburg: driving in a worldly city. Transtext(e)s-Transcultures: journal of global cultural studies..4939
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