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Dr Eleni Liarou

Positions held:
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Dr Eleni Liarou is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television History and Programme Director of the BA Film and Media, a well-established and popular programme that builds on 糖心logo入口's radical reputation and distinctive leadership in this field.听

    In 2013, Eleni received a 糖心logo入口 Teaching and Scholarship Award for outstanding contribution to teaching and learning. Prior to this, she taught film at London South Bank University and London history at University College London (UCL).听

    Eleni is a media and cultural historian with an interest in 20th century history of immigration in the UK. Her听research focuses on the ways in which the human experience of migration is historically articulated in British film and television; legacies of imperialism and their role in shaping UK film and media; the refugee experience听 in postwar British cinema and television. In addition to these topics, Eleni would be happy to supervise research on related topics such as:听听public history and the media; London history and London on film/TV, postcolonial and feminist theories of film and television; diasporic film and TV.

    Eleni is听member of the Self Assessment Team for听糖心logo入口's Race Equality Charter听and for Athena SWAN.

    Eleni is currently working on her monograph on refugee experiences in post-WWII British cinema and television, to be published by Bloomsbury/BFI.听

    Highlights

    • Eleni was the principal coordinator and researcher on the collaborative project听

      This project invites different generations of the public from African and Caribbean backgrounds to speak back to the BBC's radio news reporting from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.
      Through an interactive timeline and theme pages you can hear about lived experiences of the news stories reported, access the original radio news scripts, and explore key and hidden moments in British history.

      The project is in partnership with the BBC Archive and was funded by the British Academy.

    Administrative responsibilities

    • Eleni is the Programme Director of the BA in Film and Media

    Professional memberships

    • Corresponding editor for the journal of , a leading journal in听drawig together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline.

    • Member of the Editorial Board听of Significa莽茫o: Revista de cultura audiovisual, a publication of the Postgraduate Programme in Audiovisual Media at the School of Communications and Arts, University of S茫o Paulo.

      Founded in 1974, Significa莽茫o celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, consolidating its position as one of the longest-running and most prestigious journals in the fields of communication and the arts in Brazil.听

    • Team member of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, a research and educational centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical research and debate.

    • Member of the ,听a group of researchers, teachers, archivists, collections managers, students, professionals, and enthusiasts engaged in exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television.

    • Member of the

      The panel college is made up of members who have significant experience or understanding in assessing the quality of major research and innovation projects across a range of areas, beyond their own specialist area. They may also have experience of assessing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research.

    • Member of听The International Women鈥檚 Broadcasting Histories (IWBH) network (formed in 2021) which aims to create a global nexus for scholars researching women鈥檚 broadcasting histories. Related to the network's activities is the recently launched book series, titled听

    Honours and awards

  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    Eleni has been one of the founders of 糖心logo入口's TV Studies Working Group, along with Dr. Janet McCabe and Dr. Emma Sandon, and BFI TV curators Ms Lisa Kerrigan and Ms Ellie Groom.

    The TV Studies Working Group promotes research into television studies, with a particular emphasis on developing alliances and collaborative research partnerships with archives and other TV and media research networks. It provides a unique multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary space, where researchers (academics, graduate students, practitioners, archivists and librarians) can share ideas about the latest trends in television studies and exchange information and progress on the development of specific research projects, the purpose of which is to consolidate collaborative partnerships and plan future work, including funding bids. 听

    Research projects

    The digital archive: role, uses, impact

    Abstract

    Series Convenor: Dr. Eleni Liarou, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, 糖心logo入口, University of London

    March-May 2022

    This is a series of workshops about the role of archives for public engagement and academic research. In the context of the pandemic and with more of us working from home there has been renewed pressure to facilitate digital/online access to archives, and renewed interest on the part of researchers and users to employ new digital research tools and methodologies. The series explores the role, uses and impact of public archives from the perspective of archivists and curators, academics and research听students.

    The workshops are hosted and generously supported by and for Art and Technology.

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    The digital archive: definitions, challenges and implications听with presentations by:

    Mark Duguid听(British Film Institute, Senior Curator),听听Jake Berger听(BBC Executive Product Manager, BBC Archive), and听听Hannah Ishmael听(Black Cultural Archives, Collections and Research Manager), March 2022, BIRMAC, 糖心logo入口, University of London.

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    Digital archives: tools, ethics and issues of materiality听with presentations by:

    听 Dr Emily Bell, Dr. Joseph John Viscomi and Dr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, May 2022, BIRMAC/VASARI, 糖心logo入口, University of London

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    Dr. Emily Bell

    Emily will introduce The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata, a resource that brings together database histories, language variants, newspaper terminology, and Xpaths for specific fields, in a format that creates a controlled vocabulary designed to be used across disciplines and inside and outside the academy. This case study demonstrates how researchers can use different collections and their metadata to ask research questions across national and linguistic borders, discussing the tool ShiCo and how it enables us to map conceptual shift over time.

    Dr. Joseph John Viscomi

    Joseph will explore the relationship between archives and historical materiality through his research on the depopulation of towns and villages in Southern Italy since the late 18th century. The study of migration has long opted for an approach that follows migrants, and their archives, out of and away from their points of departure. Few studies have located their subjects in the material landscapes from which migrants departed. Joseph will discuss how a critical examination of these histories requires a fresh perspective on the connections between archives, materiality, and land. He will also speak about a visualisation project, in collaboration with the radical cartographer Philippe Rekacewicz, that aims to digitally 鈥榤ap鈥 material and oral archives.

    听Dr. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

    In recent years big data technologies bring with them new and crucial uncertainties in the form of new biases, systemic errors and, as a result, new ethical challenges which require urgent attention and analysis. Nanna will address these uncertainties through cultural听theories of the archive, arguing that big data presents our contemporary era with a number of pressing archival uncertainties. By focusing on the notions of the unknown, error, and vulnerability, respectively, the talk tunes in on three types of uncertainty that overlap and intertwine, yet also reveal different configurations of archival uncertainty, which Nanna will argue is central to the understanding of conditions of the digitally networked data archives that have become a crucial component of the cultures of surveillance and governmentality today.

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Working with the Film Camera
    • Documentary
    • Television: from small screen to smart screen
    • Working with Digital Media
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Liarou, Eleni and Carlos, S. and Green, M. (2025) . View: Journal of European Television History and Culture 14 (28), pp. 1-14. ISSN 2213-0969.
    • Liarou, Eleni (2022) . Journal of British Cinema and Television 19 (2), pp. 173-193. ISSN 1743-4521.
    • Liarou, Eleni (2018) . Critical Studies in Television 13 (1), pp. 60-78. ISSN 1749-6020.
    • Liarou, Eleni (2012) . Journal of British Cinema and Television 9 (4), pp. 612-627. ISSN 1743-4521.

    Book section

    • McCabe, Janet and Liarou, Eleni and Agger, G. and Akass, K. and Buonanno, M. and Chung, E. and Delveroudi, E.-A. and Esan, O. and Horsley-Heather, E. and Jackson, V. and Jedli膷kov谩, J. and Kirsch, G. and Leman, J. and Mello, C. and Mithani, F. and Stolyar, J. and Sawhney, R. and Turnbull, S. (2020) . In: Ross, K. (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication. Wiley. pp. 2-23. ISBN 9781119429104.
    • Christie, Ian and Earle, Wendy and Liarou, Eleni and Merkel, K. and Mohaji, A. (2017) . In: Shiach, M. and Virani, T. (eds.) Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy: Creative Collaborations in Arts and Humanities Research. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 45-60. ISBN 9781349951116.
    • Liarou, Eleni (2017) . In: Hirsch, P. and O'Rourke, C. (eds.) London on Film. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 87-101. ISBN 9783319649788.
    • Liarou, Eleni (2015) . In: Cox, Rosie (ed.) Au Pairs' Lives in Global Context: Sisters or Servants?. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 19-35. ISBN 9781349477968.
    • Duguid, M. and Liarou, Eleni (2012) . In: Nandi, S. and Chatterjee, E. (eds.) Spectacles of Blood: A Study of Violence and Masculinity in postcolonial film and television.. New Delhi, India: Zubaan Books. pp. 145-165. ISBN 9789381017159.

    Other

    • Liarou, Eleni (2014) . 糖心logo入口, Tate & Lyle, New Media Networks.
    • Liarou, Eleni (2013) . Women's Film and Television History Network.

    Teaching resource

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  • Business and community

    Business and community

    Services

    • Consultancies and expert advice

      Member of the Advisory Board of

    • Consultancies and expert advice

      I was member of the Advisory group on , run by the Runnymede Trust and the Freelands Foundation.听

      This is a landmark research co-commission which aims to support schools in the UK to make the teaching and learning of the visual arts more inclusive. The project sets out to better understand barriers and possible solutions, to best provide practical support from resources to aiding teacher confidence.听听
      听The purpose of members' input is to support the piloting of the research, connect with practitioners in our local areas, share our learning and help to shape recommendations.听


    • Consultancies and expert advice

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