Philip Bell

Philip Bell has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in many aspects of media studies, especially television, the press and fiction film for more than thirty years. In addition to several books on television and media culture, he has published more than sixty research monographs, journal articles or book chapters on the representation of social issues in the media, Americanisation/globalisation, and is especially interested in public media, ABC current affairs, 'bias' and professional ethics. A continuing interest in methodological and philosophical issues in the social sciences is also reflected in his publications and teaching. He has successfully supervised more than thirty Research theses (MA and PhD). He was a Principal Researcher on 'The Defamation Project' (with Michael Chesterman, managed by the CLC, UNSW). Currently he is researching the future (?) of television as part of an ARC Linkage grant called 'Outside the Box', and his book, Confronting Theory: The Psychology of Cultural Studies, is in press. He recently reviewed the university/community radio station 2SER-FM for Macquarie University and UTS.

Bell has been a member of the Board of the Communications Law Centre at UNSW and its management committee. He has served as editor or referee for all the leading Australian media studies journals and refereed papers for many international journals. In 2005 he was awarded a European Co-Mundus Universities Visiting Fellowship. He served as Head of Schools of Media Studies and related fields for more than fifteen years, at Macquarie University and at UNSW. A Professor (Emeritus) since 2008, he is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UTS, Sydney.

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