Angela Annesley

Angela is a senior lecturer on BA(Hons) Film and a painter/printmaker specialising in woodcut illustration for books and film, and expressionist acrylic land and seascapes. Her academic specialisation is in the written word, writing for diverse audiences, copy editing and applied creative writing. 

A former journalist, magazine editor, sub-editor and graphic designer, she has worked for the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, English Heritage, Blue Plaque Poets, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Business Age, Accountancy Age, and many others in both staff and freelance roles. She has been both a chief sub-editor (London Section, Sunday Times Magazine) and a managing editor (Business Age), as well as running her own contract publishing company for ten years.

Her teaching covers film journalism, sub-editing, writing and magazine management, and dissertation, specialising in developing professional and creative writing and editing skills. Research interests include iPads in Art & Design, student retention and satisfaction initiatives, the role of fun in higher education, functional linguistics in teaching and student employability. Her woodcuts can be seen in the recent film Ryan Macfall short Backwoods and in 'Insomniac's Fable', a collaboration with Finnish-based MakeShift Company. 

Angela is also a freelance writer and editor for paper and online publications, a voiceover artist, and a practising artist.

You can see her creative work at www.ravenstongue.co.uk or at https://www.instagram.com/ravenstongueprints/. Her work can be seen in local galleries and in a range of national and local books and publications. 

Angela is a fellow of the HEA.