Dr Carole O'Reilly
+44 (0)161 295 6054
Carole graduated from the National University of Ireland (Cork) with a BA (Hons) in English & Sociology.
After a period as a feature writer on various local and national newspapers and magazines, she undertook a Masters by research in Sociology at Cork, specialising in the history of newspaper ownership in Britain and Ireland. This was supplemented by visiting lecturer positions at Cork Institute of Technology and at NUI (Cork).
On the launch of the Open University in the Irish Republic in 1991, Carole was appointed the first tutor-counsellor in Social Sciences for the Cork region.
In 1993, she moved to Salford to take up the position of Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Salford University. After spending time as programme leader for BA (Hons) Media and Language with Business and BA (Hons) Television & Radio, Carole was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2003 and became Head of the Media Division in that year.
Her research interests include published work in the area of representation of Irish people on British television, women in popular music video and newspaper history. She was awarded a PhD in 2009 from the History department of Manchester Metropolitan University, for a thesis examining the influence of local newspaper reporting on the campaign for public parks in Manchester in the early Edwardian period.
Carole is also working on a history of newspaper journalists and journalism in Manchester with a specific emphasis on the reporting of municipal matters in the city.
She has served many higher education institutions as a consultant (Edge Hill University and University of Essex among them) and has been an external examiner at Liverpool John Moores University, University of East Anglia and the University of Bolton.
Carole is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Communication, Culture and Media (CCM) research institute at Salford.
PhD Supervision
She is happy to provide PhD supervision in the following areas: journalism/ media history; sociology of journalism/ media; journalism and gender; social, cultural and urban history; cities and the media. Currently supervised projects include a study of blogging and online journalism in Saudi Arabia and online activism and civic participation in Saudi Arabia.
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