Dr Sarah Arnold

Media Studies, Motherhood Project, Arts and Humanities Institute

Head of the Department of Media Studies
Associate Professor

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Biography

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. 

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