Professor Joanne Garde-Hansen

Profile

I am Professor of Culture, Media and Communication and Head of School of Media and Communication. My research and teaching focus upon media histories, memories and archives. This is manifest in three strands of research. The first, relates to my collaboration with television researchers on television history, heritage and memory and the co-founding of the Centre for Television Histories at the University of Warwick. The second, is in my collaboration with geographers, water scientists and UWE's Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience the relationship between culture and water, rivers, flooding and drought. The third is in my collaboration with computer science and data justice research on women, ageing and screen archives. I have published on popular culture, media and memory, television, archives, water memories, and mediations of flood and drought. I am a Fellow of the HE Academy and was nominated for a National Teaching Fellowship, and have won awards for outstanding module design and public engagement.

Responsibilities

• Head of School

Research interests

The co-researcher role and publications from the AHRC funded research network Women, Ageing and Media (with UWE and UoG) in the mid-2000s have led to a collaboraration with Tanaya Guha (Computer Science, Glasgow) and Sanjay Sharma (Data Justice, Warwick) on the integration of women, ageing and media studies with machine learning through the Leverhulme Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen project (2024-2027).

I have led the AHRC funded research network The Afterlives of Protest with partners at Kings College London, Loughborough and Sussex, and with Red Chidgey (Kings) we will publish a monograph for Palgrave’s Memory Studies Series on Museums, Archives and Protest Memory in the near future. Red Chidgey and I are also collaborating on editing a handbook for Routledge on Media and Memory (for 2025). I am part of the international Transformative Memory research group (led by Nottingham Trent University) and I am on the management committee of the EU COST: Action - Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change (2021-2025) focusing on Transformations of the Environment.

I was co-investigator on the ESRC funded Sustainable Flood Memories project (with University of the West of England) and the follow-up ESRC funded Knowledge Exchange project with the Environment Agency on Digital Stories of Flooding.  Recent books on this research include Media and Water (IB Tauris 2021) and Social Memory Technology: Theory, Practice, Action with Karen Worcman (Routledge 2016). I have collaborated with Rob Procter (Computer Sciences, Warwick) on an ESRCIAA funded project entitled Developing a Flood Memory App (2015) and this research developed into a collaboration with colleagues at Warwick and Glasgow, where I was a co-investigator of the Waterproofing Data project (2018-2021), which has produced a flood memory app and sustainable flood memories in Brazil. The project was nominated for THE Award Research Project of the Year 2022 and was an ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize finalist (2023).

From 2014-2019, I was co-investigator with Prof Lindsey McEwen (UWE) in the Natural Environment Research Council funded project: DRY (Drought Risk and You). During 2016-2017 I visited Bauru, Brazil to explore Narratives of Water and digital hydro-citizenship with Danilo Rothberg in a Warwick-Fapesp funded project with the State University of Sao Paulo. I have a longstanding collaboration with colleagues in Brazil on the theory and practice of a social technology of media and memory. Since 2012-2013, I have been working with Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa, Brazil), Gilson Schwartz (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Danilo Rothberg (Unesp) and Carlos Falci (University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) on the following projects: Beyond the Digital: Collective Memory and Social Networks in Emerging Global Conflicts funded by the British Council/FAPESP; Memory as Metadata funded by a Brazil Partnership Fund; and a series of events during with Brazilian colleagues funded through the Institutes of Advanced Study in the UK and Brazil.

The book with Kristyn Gorton (Leeds) Remembering British Television: Audiences, Archive and Industry (BF, 2019) was based on a British Academy Small Grant (2013-2014) and drew together television scholars, producers, creatives and television archivists. This was extended into new research with Matt Hills (Huddersfield) and Jonathan Gray (Wisconisn-Madison) on para-textual media and memory studies during 2016-2017 with a publication on Dr Who. Television history research and water research have been combined into the ongoing 'Amphibious Screens - Sustainable Cultures of Water' seminar series (2022) and the follow on Sustainable Screen Production in Cornwall (2023) with Rachel Moseley and Gemma Goodman, and the development of a collection of international scholarship on screen studies and watery places. This builds on the media, memory and sense of place research published in Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archives with Hannah Grist (Palgrave Pivot 2014).

• Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen

Qualifications

• PhD Critical and Cultural Theory
• MA Postmodernity
• BA English Literature
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• International Corresponding Editor for Media Culture and Society

Professional memberships

• Editorial Board of Memory Studies
• Editorial Board of Cambridge Journal of Memory, Mind & Media
• Editorial Board of Memory Studies Review
• British Academy Peer Reviewer
• MeCCSA member
• BAFTSS member

Student education

I have taught across media and communication, media and creative industries, digital media, cultural studies, media practice and innovation. I would be interested in supervising postgraduate students who wish to research popular media cultures, media technology, women, ageing and media, media histories and heritage, media and memory, media cultures and the environment. I have supervised PhDs to successful completion and examined PhDs in the UK and abroad.