Fatimah Awan
AHRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: f.awan@westminster.ac.uk
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On 1st September 2008, Dr Fatimah Awan joined the Audiences research group in CAMRI.
She is the Research Fellow on the two-year research project,
Young people’s creative understanding of their
mediaworlds, led by Professor David Gauntlett and funded by the Arts
and Humanities Research Council.
Fatimah began her career in the advertising industry, before moving
into academia. She has taught a range of media studies modules at
Southampton Solent University for several years, and completed her
PhD, based at Bournemouth University, in 2007. Her thesis used
creative research methods to explore young people’s sense of
identity in relation to the media, and media role models.
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In the new project she will be building on this experience as
she recruits school students from around the UK to take part in
creative tasks, designed to explore their relationship with the
complex array of media that young people deal with every
day.