Teaching

My current teaching responsibilities focus on PhD recruitment. If you are interested in studying for a PhD in any of the areas I write about, please get in touch by email, outlining what you would like to study, submitting your cv and adding me to your Facebook friends, so we can talk about it. The University of the West of Scotland provides funding and a range of privilges for its full-time PhD students.

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Jennifer Jones (2010-)
Web 2.0 and the Olympic Games (Director of Studies)

Ana Adi (2007-)
New Media, Human Rights & the Beijing 2008 Olympics (Director of Studies)

Bettina Hoermann (2007-)
Public Engagement with the Ethics of Nanotechnology (Director of Studies)

John Andrew Carruthers (Supervisory Team) (2007-)
Elizabeth McLaughlin (Supervisory Team) (2007-)
John Quinn (Supervisory Team) (2007-)

UNDERGRADUATE

Becoming Posthuman (2003-pres)

core honours course, considers philosophical, social, and political dimensions of ‘posthumanism’.
Themed: athletes / death / medicine / intelligence / art / politics / environment

PREVIOUS TEACHING

Cyberculture (2002-2008)

year 2, discusses core concepts in cyberculture,
Themed: with particular focus on sexuality, computer gaming, and identity, digitla art
texts: Gauntlett / Bell & Kennedy

Olympic Spectacle (2003-2008),

year 3, considers the cultural, media and political aspects of the Olympic Movement
Themes: Olympic Truce, Bidding, Infrastructure, Historical, Media instiutions, Politics
texts: ;Parry & Girginov, Olympic Games Explained

DISSERTATION SUPERVISION

2008-2009
  • Self and Sex 2.0: A look at how the internet is changing who we are and who we ‘do’
  • The Construction of Player Immersion and Satisfaction Through Videogame Design Structures’
  • Robots and Reality: Science Fiction Narratives in Film
2007-2008
  • Going For Gold: A Comparative study of Google Alerts and Newsbank through the Beijing Olympics
  • Documentary Films and the Climate Change Debate: Ethical Expressions or Plausible Propaganda?
2006-2007
  • An Investigation into the perceived value of social software for career development within the media
  • An Investigation into the Role of MySpace as a Promotional and Marketing Medium for Industry Professionals

POSTGRADUATE

  • PhD Ethics of Science & Medicine (2002-2005, University of Glasgow)
    Covered a range of ethical issues, including professional ethical issues (authorship, honesty, media) and applied ethical issues (consent, species boundaries, experimentation).

Select Previous Teaching

  • Media & Society (undergraduate, year 2, 2003)
  • Digital Environments(undergraduate, year 2, 2002-2004)
  • Social Ethics (undergraduate, year 2/3, 2002)
  • Cultural Studies (undergraduate, year 3, 2002)
  • Introductory Philosophic Inquiry (undergraduate, year 1, 1999-2000)
  • Ethics and Applied Philosophy (undergraduate, year 3, 2000)
  • Advanced Applied Ethics (undergraduate, year 3, 2000)
  • Theory Foundations in Sociology (undergraduate, year 1, 2000)
  • Study Skills (undergraduate, year 2, 1999)
  • Qualitative Research Methods (undergraduate, year 2, 2000

Select Guest Lectures

  • 2009: Royal College of Art, MA Design Interactions, (Professor Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby) Human Enhancement and Superheros
  • 2008: Royal College of Art, MA Design Interactions, (Professor Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby) NanoCultures: On Speculation, Ethics & Paranoia
  • 2007: Royal College of Art, MA Design Interactions, (Professor Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby) Robot Rights & Artificial General Intelligence
  • 2007: University College London, Department of Biology [Dr David Gems] Beyond Bioethics: The Culture of Posthumanity
  • 2007: University College London, Department of Biology [Dr Bruce Lynn] Bioethics & Sport
  • 2007: Anglia Ruskin University [Dr John O'Leary] Bioethics and Biolaw for Sporting Bodies
  • 2006: Glasgow School of Art [Dr Damian Sutton] New Media Ethics & Biotechnoogy �

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