Dr Sarah Arnold
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Media Studies, Motherhood Project, Arts and Humanities Institute
Biography
I joined Maynooth University's Department of Media in September 2016 and am currently Head of Department. I previously worked at the school of Film & Television at Falmouth University in the UK. I received my PhD from NUI Galway's Huston School of Film & Digital Media in 2010.
At Maynooth University, I teach across the BA in Media Studies and the MA in Critical and Creative Media on subjects ranging from television studies to screen production.
I am co-PI of the Women in Focus project - an IRC/AHRC Digital Humanities funded project investigating women's amateur filmmaking. I'm also a researcher on the MotherNet project, an interdisciplinary project that builds research capacity across three European universities through the topic of 'narratives of motherhood'. I'm also a researcher on the GEMINI project, a pan-European collaboration aimed at tackling gender stereotypes by engaging high school students with serial drama's representation of gender issues. I currently supervise 3 PhDs and 2 postdocs.
My research is more generally concerned with cultural production, from women's role in film and television practice to new entrants' experience of media and creative work.
I welcome enquiries from people interested in pursuing PhDs or postdoctoral projects on topics in these areas.
Book
Book Chapter
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | O' Brien, A & Arnold, S. (2022) 'Creative industries’ new entrants as equality, diversity and inclusion change agents?'. Cultural Trends, . https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2022.2141100 [Full-Text] | |
2021 | Arnold S. (2021) 'Experiments in early US television: windows of opportunities for female technical workers in the 1940s'. Women's History Review, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2022 | O' Brien, A & Arnold, S. (2022) 'Imagining Diversity: An Irish Case Study of Graduates’ Perceptions of Inequality in Media Work'. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, (24):32-48. [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2022 | Arnold S. (2022) 'Skills narratives amongst media degree graduates and students: Discourses of hard and soft skills in education-to-work journeys'. Industry And Higher Education, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2022 | Sarah Arnold & Hannah Andrews (2022) 'Editorial'. Critical Studies in Television: scholarly studies in small screen fictions, 17 (3). [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2021 | O’ Brien, Anne & Arnold, Sarah (2021) 'Doing Women’s Film and Television History: Locating Women in Film and Television, Past and Present'. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, . https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.01 [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Sarah Arnold (2018) 'The Production of Television’s Female Audience: Early BBC Audience Research and Gender Classification'. . [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Sarah Arnold (2015) 'Urban Decay Photography and Film: Fetishism and the Apocalyptic Imagination'. Journal of Urban History, 41 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144214563499 [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Sarah Arnold; Dario Llinares (2014) 'New Perspectives on Cinematic Spectatorship, Digital Culture and Space: Re-evaluating Exhibition, Participation and Interaction'. . | |
2013 | Sarah Arnold (2013) 'Redacted: The Iraqi War According to Youtube'. . [Full-Text] |
Conference Contribution
Blog
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Sarah Arnold & Anne O'Brien (2019) From Education to Work: Media Graduates’ Experience of the Media Industries. [Blog] [Link] | |
2020 | Sarah Arnold (2020) Reflections on Media Education During the Covid-19 Lockdowns. [Blog] [Link] | |
2021 | Sarah Arnold (2021) What Future For Irish Public Service Television?: Rté Television And Technological Adaptation. [Blog] [Link] | |
2018 | Sarah Arnold (2018) The BBC Gender Problem: A Century in the Making. [Blog] | |
2018 | Sarah Arnold (2018) Between Programme Policy and Practice: Gender, Diversity and the Case of RTÉ’s Children’s Christmas Show, the Late Late Toy Show. [Blog] | |
2016 | Sarah Arnold (2016) Live Broadcasting: Brought to you by Facebook. [Blog] [Link] | |
2016 | Sarah Arnold (2016) Isn't it Funny: Now we can Laugh at Brexit. [Blog] [Link] | |
2017 | Sarah Arnold (2017) When news and drama compete for time: The Handmaid’s Tale’s release. [Blog] [Link] | |
2017 | Sarah Arnold (2017) Virtual Reality: The Sexual Revolution is not Taking Place. [Blog] [Link] | |
2017 | Sarah Arnold (2017) Live from Facebook… and the BBC… and the Users: Video Streaming and Authorship. [Blog] [Link] | |
2017 | Sarah Arnold (2017) What Use is a Gendered Audience?: Institutional Classification Then and Now. [Blog] [Link] |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Sarah Arnold (2022) Book Review: Frances Galt, Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021. [Book Review] | |
2022 | Arnold, S (2022) Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema. EDINBURGH: [Book Review] [DOI] |
Invited Lectures
Year | Publication | |
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2017 | Sarah Arnold (2017) Feminist Futures: intersections of new media, technologies and women’s bodies, sex and sexuality. Dublin Feminist Film Festival 2017: [Invited Lectures] [Link] |
Newspaper Articles
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Sarah Arnold (2019) Derry Girls and the value of good television. [Newspaper Articles] [Link] | |
2019 | Sarah Arnold (2019) And the winner is: the Academy Awards' problem with women. [Newspaper Articles] [Link] | |
2020 | Sarah Arnold (2020) How Netflix changed what we watch on our screens. [Newspaper Articles] [Link] | |
2017 | Sarah Arnold & Anne O'Brien (2017) Newstalk and RTE aren't alone - most of the Irish media industry has a 'woman problem'. [Newspaper Articles] [Link] |
Teaching Interests
Taught modules are as follows:
BA Media Studies:
- MD161 Introduction to Media & Cultural Studies
- MD332 Media & Cultural Work
- MD314 Media & Cultural Industries
I also supervise PhD projects on subjects in film and television industries and work; and gender and representation gender and work. Past PhD students include John Hillman and Tugce Bivac. Current PhD students include Eleanor McSherry, Jonathan O'Brien and Sarah Larkin. Postdoctoral researchers that I supervise include Carolann Madden and Izzy Fox.