Associate Professor Geoff R Lealand
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BCS Media Studies and American Studies programme rep; schools l |
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MA (First Class Hons) Cant, PhD BGSU (Ohio); DipHort (Massey) |
| Email: |
lealand@waikato.ac.nz |
| Location: |
I.4.27 |
| Contact: |
(07) 838 4466 ext 6022 |
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Research Interests:
Educated in New Zealand and the USA, Dr Lealand has been part of Screen and Media Studies (formerly Film & Television Studies) during its most vigorous time of expansion, and has been an integral part of its steady growth--through teaching, research and publication output.
His teaching and research activities are centred on television studies and audience research, issues of media and cultural identity, writing for the small screen, journalism training, world cinema, media literacy and teacher training, and children's and adolescent's use of media.
In addition to his own extensive writing in NZ and overseas publications, he has co-edited issues of Continuum and Media International Australia (Australia) and Script (New Zealand), as well as acting as the New Zealand commissioning editor for Metro and Screen Education (Australia), Studies in Australian Film, and Media International Australia.
He is interested in writing for general audiences as well as for specialist readers eg he has written for publications as varied as The Listener, Little Treasures and The Write Stuff (NZ Writer's Guild), and is regularly called on for media commentary. He has also been a judge for the Qantas Television Awards.
He is also offers professional advice and participates in commissioned research for bodies such as the Maori Television Service, Television New Zealand, New Zealand On Air and the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
He has had a long involvement in the development of Media Studies in secondary schools, through the National Association of Media Educators (NAME), running conferences for teachers and workshops for students, and through writing resources. His 2002 book, co-authored with Helen Martin, It's All Done with Mirrors: About Television (Dunmore Press) and the 2009 report Media Studies in New Zealand Schools and Universities: A Research Report are recent examples of such work.
With Ruth Zanker (New Zealand Broadcasting School, CPIT), he has completed a series of extensive, school-based studies of New Zealand children (8-13 years) and the outcomes of such research have been widely published in New Zealand and Australian journals.
He is currently the New Zealand editor for the Directory of World Cinema (Intellect Publishing), and is researching the second 25 years of television in New Zealand (1985-2010).
Selected Publications:
An assortment of recent publications:
"A success story: Media teaching in New Zealand" in Chi-Kim Cheung ed. Media Education in Asia, Springer-Verlag 2009
"The future ain't what it used to be", Onfilm Nov 2009
(with Ruth Zanker) "New Zealand as Middle Earth: Local and Global Popular Communication in a Small Nation" in Toby Miller ed. The Contemporary Hollywood Reader, Routledge, 2009
(with Ruth Zanker) "Pleasure, excess and self-monitoring: The media worlds of New Zealand children" Media International Australia 126, Feb 2008
(with James Hollings, Alan Samson & Elspeth Tilley), 'The big NZ journalism survey', Pacific Journalism Review 13, 2, September 2007
"The problem of of quality television: schedules, audience demographics band cultural policy in New Zealand", in Akass and McCabe eds. Quality TV, I. B. Taurus, 2007
Research Publications:
You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Associate Professor Geoff R Lealand General Interests:
Film and television, gardening, blogging (Publicaddress.net is a particular favourite), biking, writing, reading (especially magazines)
Expertise:
Television studies; Media Studies; national cinema; children and media; research methods; media literacy and teacher training; journalism training; film and literature
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