Dr James Graham
| Name | Dr James Graham |
|---|---|
| Job title | Deputy Dean (Student Success) |
| Research institute | |
| Primary appointment | Faculty Leadership |
| Email address | J.Graham@mdx.ac.uk |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4778-2161 |
| Contact category | Researcher |
Biography
Biography James Graham is Deputy Dean for Student Success in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries. He has responsibility across the Faculty for student experience, continuation, completion and progression (graduate employability and further study); Faculty engagement with the Teaching Excellence Framework and Access & Participation Plan; and the implementation of innovative learning, teaching and assessment practice. James teaches broadly across media and communications and researches in the fields of postcolonial media and literary studies. He is the convenor of the Promotional Cultures Research Cluster and has supervised three PhDs to completion in this area. Prior to taking on the role of Deputy Dean he was a Director of Programmes and before that the programme leader for the BA Advertising, PR and Branding programme, taking it through two succesful reviews and overseeing its expansion and delivery internationally in London, Dubai, Mauritius and Vietnam. As Director of Programmes James managed staff and provided leadership in curriculum development, teaching and learning and quality assurance for BA English, BA Media and Cultural Studies, BA Journalism and Communication, BA Creative Writing and Journalism, BA Advertising, PR and Branding, MA Media Management, MSc Digital Journalism, MA Novel Writing and MA Scriptwriting. 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 in the Media department at Middlesex, 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. As well as leading the delivery of undergraduate independent project/undegraduate dissertation modules, James supervises independent projects at postgraduate levels, with three 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'
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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. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2024.2407114Authentic by design: developing students for the talent economy
Barter, P., Megeney, A., Graham, J., Parmar, D. and Mourouti, O. 2023. Authentic by design: developing students for the talent economy. AdvanceHE Assessment and Feedback Symposium 2023. Reading, UK 07 - 07 Nov 2023Promotional cultures
Graham, J. 2024. Promotional cultures. in: The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture: Practices, Sites and Controversies Bloomsbury Academic.Apartheid in the digital outdoors? Representations of diversity in the Instagram content of outdoor brands from the US, UK and Scandinavia
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. ECREA - Contested visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body. Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal 06 - 08 Sep 2023Industry awards, employability and academic success
King, S., Graham, J., Raj Sharma, V., Nawaf, A., Kalla, D. and Slonims, N. 2023. Industry awards, employability and academic success. MDX 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
Graham, J. and Riley, T. 2023. Development of BA Creative Digital Design professional degree apprenticeship. 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.Spectres of world literature
Graham, J., Deckard, S. and Niblett, M. 2012. Spectres of world literature. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 48 (5), pp. 465-471.Postcolonial 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..1302
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