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Mez Packer

Title: Associate Senior Lecturer
Subject group/area: Interactive Media
Telephone: + 44 (0)24 7688 5196
Room: ET104
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Main Duties:
Mez joined the Media & Communication department more than five years ago as a visiting lecturer and has taught various modules in the department at all undergraduate levels. She continues with her professional practice as a web designer, content producer and multimedia consultant alongside her teaching. Her varied career includes working with the BBC as a broadcast journalist and content producer with English Regions New Media as well as time as an editor of a successful educational magazine.

She plans an MA in Writing to run alongside her teaching commitment and is particularly interested in interactive narratives, reactive technologies and the semantic web.

Teaching Convergent, Digital and Interactive Media on the undergraduate Media Production degree.

Subject expertise: Internet technologies, web 2.0, narrative development, convergent media, creative writing

Education:
  • Warwick University - BA(Hons) Philosophy and Literature
  • BBC – Copyright law and the Internet
Employment:
  • Coventry University – Part-time/visiting lecturer on Media Production, Communication, Culture and Media and in the School of Lifelong Learning
  • BBC – Broadcast Journalist/Web Producer on various projects in English Regions New Media
  • Step Forward Publishing – Editor of flagship educational magazine
  • Hybrid:Arts – Board member and consultant on multimedia projects
  • Private professional practice offering new media solutions to businesses and organisations – especially in the area of curriculum delivery.
Selected publications:
  • Among Thieves (a novel) Published by Tindal Street Press March 2009

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