Awan, Fatimah
AHRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: f.awan@westminster.ac.uk
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 peoples 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 peoples sense of identity in relation to the media, and media role models.
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.