Who's who
Julia Kennedy
Award Leader, Journalism
Julia Kennedy graduated as a mature student
with an English and Media Studies degree in 2001 following a career as an
emergency and psychiatric nurse.
After completing a PGCE, Julia progressed to a full-time senior lectureship on the BA(Hons) Journalism course at Falmouth. Subjects taught include media ethics and regulation, audience studies, journalism and film, health and environmental journalism, crime and the media and radical and participatory journalism.
Julia's particular research interests lie in the intersection of representations of crime, conflict and trauma with new media technologies. Recent research on responses to the mediation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann through user generated content on Youtube is in press for publication in Journalism Studies early in 2010.
Julia has a strong profile of postgraduate study and scholarly activity. This includes an MA (distinction) in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester. A Postgraduate Certificate in Applications of Online and Distance Learning with the OU inspired an interest in online learning and teaching technologies. Hybrid learning approaches are of particular interest, and Julia has co-presented papers on using electronic forums to support workplace based learning, and reading educational futures through science fiction literature at conferences in Naples and Lisbon respectively. She has undertaken a longitudinal research project to explore student responses to peer evaluation through online gallery spaces in BA(Hons) Journalism with a colleague in the department.
Julia recently completed an MAEd at University College Falmouth, and is presently working on a chapter for a book on young people, the internet and censorship.
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