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BACKGROUND

Born - Dublin, Ireland, 15/08/71.

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EDUCATION

1988 - 1991    University College Dublin, BA(Hons), History and Politics.

1991 - 1992    Dublin City University, MA  Film and Television Studies.

1992 - 1998    Dublin City University, PhD. (The Development of Universal Telephone Service in Ireland, 1880 -                          1993)

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WORK EXPERIENCE

1999 - Present   Fulltime Lecturer & Chair of MA in Film & Television – School of Communications, DCU

1998 - 1999        Research Officer, COMTEC, School of Communications, DCU

1995 - 1999        Parttime Lecturer - School of Communications, DCU

1997                    Research Consultant – Work Research Centre, 22 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4.

I've also worked as a journalist from time to time and have been published in the Irish Times, Magill, Hot Press, Film Ireland, In Production, The Entertainer, Decision, Futures, Irish Studies Review etc.

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Current                    Research Officer for Irish work on TeleCityVision, a European research network on                                                new ICTs and new paradigms in urban development

1994/5                     Primary Researcher for Forbairt/Film Board of Ireland report on Ireland's Audiovisual (Film                                  and Television) Infrastructure. Published May 1996.

1992                         Author of report on the Irish cinema exhibition industry for MEDIA Salles (EU MEDIA '95                                  programme). Contributor to the 1994 White Book of the European Exhibition Industry. (Click                                  for access to Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of same.

1991                         Evaluator/Researcher at SCRIPTCRAFT, an initiative promoted by the SCALE project of the                                  European Union's MEDIA '95 programme.

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PUBLICATIONS/PAPER 

Routledge Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Irish Culture (Consulting Editor on "Broadcasting and New Technologies"). (Forthcoming from Routledge).

Historical Encyclopedia of Irish Film (with Pat Brereton). Forthcoming from Scarecrow Press.

"Ireland and the New International Division of Cultural Labour" Paper delivered to Offscreen Spaces Conference, July 28-30 2004, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.

"Tackling the Directive: Television Without Frontiers, Transnational Broadcasting, and Irish Soccer"  Trends in Communication, 2004, Vol. 12, No. 2&3: Pages 131-152

"Neo-Liberalism and Irish Broadcasting" in Peadar Kirby, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin (eds) Reinventing Ireland: Culture and the Celtic Tiger, (2002), Pluto Press.

"Is Hollywood "Doom"ed?: The Dream Factory response to new games media" (With Aphra Kerr) Paper to the Joint Faculty of Humanities Conference 22-23rd February 2002.

"Rethinking Universal Service: Citizenship, Consumption Norms and the Telephone" (with Paschal Preston), Information Society June 2000

"The long-run diffusion and techno-economic peformance of national telephone networks: a case study of Ireland 1922 – 1998" (with Paschal Preston) Telecommunications Policy 23 (1999), pp. 437-457.

Strategies and Markets for Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS) (with Paul Healy) (London: IIR Telecoms)

"Telecommunications and National Development: An Empirical Analysis." Paper for Communications and Technology Policy IAMCR Conference 25 - 31 July 1998.

Here's Looking at You Kid (Ed. with Stephanie McBride), (1996), Wolfhound Press.

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HOBBIES

Cycling

MGB Roadsters 

Movies

Music - I like all sorts of stuff and actually appeared on stage (at a weekly club called "Lazybird" upstairs in the International Bar on Sunday nights) last year for the first (and probably only) time as part of an outfit called Mormons/Quakers, a side project from a real band called Rollers/Sparkers. In truth the only instrument I played was a laptop but no-one hits the "enter" key like me. If you're really interested one of  the tracks from that gig appeared on a sampler CD launched in November 2002. "Lazybird Vol. 2 & 3" is now available in Tower and "all good record stores".

A mild obsession with a small selection of computer games. I justify this on the grounds that it's related to my teaching on the MSc. in Multimedia but who am I kidding? Still I'll take on all-comers at networked Doom or Quake (I, II or III). More recently I've invested in a dinky PS One (purely reschearch you understand) to see what all the fuss was about. Oh, and I've begun to explore sports-themed games, in particular EA's Fifa 2002 which I'm playing more often than is strictly necessary. Still...

Recently I've developed an interest in gardening - this surprises no one more than myself.