Jo is wearing a light blue shirt with the collar open and silver chain necklace. They have blue eyes and short light brown hair. Jo is smiling.

Dr Jo Henderson

Lecturer in Contextual Studies and Course Leader for Foundation Year LSFMD courses
Foundation Course Leader - Media, Module Leader - Dissertation (English, Journalism and Media & Communications)
London School of Film, Media and Design

An experienced and enthusiastic educator who enjoys working with students at all levels of higher education.

  • Qualifications

    • BA(Hons) Photography and Multi Media University of Westminster
    • MA Cultural Memory University of London
    • PhD University College London

Course Leader for Foundation Year courses within the London School of Film, Media and Design.

My teaching experience started with A Level and BTEC in Media and Design since then I have taught at various London institutions at all levels of Higher Education in the field of media, documentary, television and contextual studies. I joined UWL as a full-time staff member in 2016 to establish the successful Foundation course.

Member of:
PRISM: Music and Screen Centre

See Dr Jo Henderson's publications list in the UWL Repository.

My research investigates issues of representation of 'ordinary' people in British broadcast documentary output, particularly the BBC and the work of the Community Programmes Unit.

  • Research and publications

    Publications

    ‘You, Me, the BBC and the License Fee’ in New Vistas 8 (1) 2022

    ‘Let the People Speak – the BBC Community Programmes Unit 1974–2002’. In Critical Issues in Television. 17 (1) 2022

    ‘Whatever Happened to VERA?’. In: VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture. 2 (4) 2013

    'Handing over Control? Access, “ordinary people” and Video Nation’. In: Buckingham, D. and Willett, R. (eds.) Video Cultures. Basingstoke: Palgrave 2009

  • Conferences

    Broadcast 100, National Science and Media Museum/University of Bradford - Television Realism Panel 15/09/2022

    Media Reform Festival, Birkbeck - Community Television Panel 23/03/2022