Senior Lecturer
Media
Middlesex University
Paul Kerr is Senior Lecturer in Television Production at Middlesex University and was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at London Metropolitan University. Before becoming an academic he was an award-winning television producer, series editor and director for over twenty years, making dozens of documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four as well as international broadcasters including Discovery, A&E, La Cinquieme and NHK. A number of his films have been screened at film and TV festivals around the world including New York, Turin, Dinard, Florida and Bologna. He began in TV by specialising in series about the media - Open The Box (C4 1986), The Media Show (C4 1987-90), and the award-winning cinema series, Moving Pictures (BBC2 1990-96) but went on to work on programmes about the art
more...Paul Kerr is Senior Lecturer in Television Production at Middlesex University and was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at London Metropolitan University. Before becoming an academic he was an award-winning television producer, series editor and director for over twenty years, making dozens of documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four as well as international broadcasters including Discovery, A&E, La Cinquieme and NHK. A number of his films have been screened at film and TV festivals around the world including New York, Turin, Dinard, Florida and Bologna. He began in TV by specialising in series about the media - Open The Box (C4 1986), The Media Show (C4 1987-90), and the award-winning cinema series, Moving Pictures (BBC2 1990-96) but went on to work on programmes about the arts and history. He has published in Screen, Transnational Cinemas, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and in newspapers including The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times and in weekly magazines including Time Out, The New Statesman, NME, and elsewhere and is the editor of several anthologies about film and TV including The Hollywood Film Industry and MTM: Quality Television.
BA Humanities (English and History) (1974)
MA American Studies (1977)
PGCE (2008)
PhD (2013)