Dr. Jamie Medhurst

Pennaeth Adran Dros Dro
BA (Hons), MLib, PhD, FRHistS, FHEA Photograph of Dr. Jamie Medhurst.

Cyswllt

Ebost: jsm@aber.ac.uk
Swyddfa: S11 Parry-Williams
Rhif Ffon: 01970 622152
Ffacs: 01970 622831

Cyfrifoldebau

Cyfrifoldeb trefniannol ar gyfer pob agwedd o ddysgu ac addysgu israddedig ac uwchraddedig yn yr adran (gan gynnwys arholiadau, cymorth a lles myfyrwyr, datblyiad ac adolygiad y cwricwlwm, cynnydd academaidd, myfyrwyr ar gynlluniau cyfnewid).

Dysgu

Hanes a pholisi darlledu; Hanes ffilm ddogfen yn y 1930au; Y Cyfryngau yng Nghymru; Darlledu a hunaniaeth genedlaethol.

Ymchwil

Mae diddordebau ymchwil Jamie Medhurst yn canolbwyntio ar hanes darlledu (yn arbennig hanes ITV yng Nghymru a hanes teledu cynnar yn y 1920au a’r 1930au); hanes a hanesyddiaeth y cyfryngau. Mae e ar hyn o bryd yn ysgrifennu llyfr ar hanes teledu cynnar a’r BBC ym Mhrydain ac newydd cwnlhau astudiaeth o hanes ITV yng Nghymru, gan ganolbwyntio ar y 1950au a’r 1960au. Mae’n gobeithio cael arian gan yr AHRC (Cyngor Cyllido’r Dyniaethau) er mwyn arwain rhwydwaith ymchwil rhyngwladol ar hanes darlledu. Mae Jamie yn aelod o Fwrdd Canolfan Hanes y Cyfryngau Prifysgol Aberystwyth ac yn aelod o Rwydwaith Hanes Teledu Ewrop.

Bywgraffiad

Rwyf yn aelod o Senedd, Grwp Defnyddwyr Datblygu Staff a Phwyllgor Gwasanaethau Cymorth i Fyfyrwyr y Brifysgol. Roeddwn yn Ddirprwy Ddeon Cyfadran y Celfyddydau rhwng 2005 a 2007. Rwyf yn Gymrawd y Gymdeithas Hanes Frenhinol a’r Academi Addysg Uwch ac yn arholwr allanol ym Mhrifysgolion Abertawe, Buckinghamshire New a Bradford. Rwyf wedi adolygu papurau ar gyfer Contemporary Wales, Critical Studies in Television, Media History a Twentieth Century British History ynghyd â chynigion llyfr ar gyfer with Routledge, Sage Publications a Palgrave-Macmillan. Rwyf hefyd yn aelod o Fwrdd Golygyddol Media History.

Dolenni

Media History

Centre for Media History

European Television History Network

Baird Television

Gwybodaeth Ychwanegol

Rwyf yn aelod o Senedd, Grwp Defnyddwyr Datblygu Staff a Phwyllgor Gwasanaethau Cymorth i Fyfyrwyr y Brifysgol. Roeddwn yn Ddirprwy Ddeon Cyfadran y Celfyddydau rhwng 2005 a 2007. Rwyf yn Gymrawd y Gymdeithas Hanes Frenhinol a’r Academi Addysg Uwch ac yn arholwr allanol ym Mhrifysgolion Abertawe, Buckinghamshire New a Bradford. Rwyf wedi adolygu papurau ar gyfer Contemporary Wales, Critical Studies in Television, Media History a Twentieth Century British History ynghyd â chynigion llyfr ar gyfer with Routledge, Sage Publications a Palgrave-Macmillan. Rwyf hefyd yn aelod o Fwrdd Golygyddol Media History.

Grantiau/Gwobrau

  • Arts and Humanities Research Council (£33,988), Rhagfyr 2009-Tachwedd 2011 - Rhwydwaith Ymchwil: 'British quality, American chaos? Transnational discourses and interactions in the history of British and North American broadcasting, c.1922-1962'

  • Grant Cynhadledd Dramor yr Academi Brydeinig (£200), 'Television: the experimental moment 1935-1955', Prifysgol Paris 8, 27-29 Mai 2009.
  • Gwobr Syr David Hughes Parry (£1000), 2006/07, i gefnogi gwaith ar y llyfr (A History of Independent Television in Wales).
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council (£23,230), Medi 2008-Ionawr 2009 – cyfnod seibiant ymchwil er mwyn cwblhau llyfr (A History of Independent Television in Wales).
  • Grant Ymchwil yr Academi Brydeinig (£3117), Tachwedd 2008-Awst 2009 – ‘The Early Years of Television and the BBC, 1923-1939’.
  • Cronfa Ymchwil Prifysgol Aberystwyth (£3000), Tachwedd 2008-Awst 2009 – ‘The Early Years of Television and the BBC, 1923-1939’.

Cyhoeddiadau

Llyfrau :

A History of Independent Television in Wales (University of Wales Press, 2009) [forthcoming]

The Early Years of Television and the BBC 1923-1939 (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) [forthcoming]

Pennodau mewn llyfrau : 

‘Television in Wales’, in Bignell and Fickers (eds.), A European Television History (Blackwell, 2008), pp. 253-257.

‘Television in Wales, 1950-70’ in Bailey (ed.), Narrating Media History (Routledge, 2008), pp. 143-154.

‘History of Public Service Broadcasting’ in Donsbach (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Volume IX (Blackwell, 2008), pp. 3947-3951.

‘Piecing Together Mammon’s Television: a case study in historical television research’ in Wheatley (ed.), Re-Viewing Television History: critical issues in television historiography (I.B. Tauris, 2007), pp. 127-141.

‘A (Very) Brief History of Television’ in Creeber (ed.), Tele-Visions: methods and concepts in television studies (British Film Institute, 2006), pp.115-123.

‘Celtic Film and Television Festival, ‘Mass media in the Celtic languages, ‘Wales’ and ‘S4C’ in Koch (ed.), Celtic Culture: a historical encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2006), pp. 371, 1265-1267, 1547-1548.

'Mammon’s Television? ITV in Wales 1959-63' in Johnson and Turnock (eds.), ITV Cultures: Independent Television over Fifty Years (Open University Press, 2005), pp. 88-107.

'Regions and Nations: Wales' in McGown (ed.), The BFI Television Handbook 2005 (British Film Institute, 2004), pp. 68-9.

‘Competition and Change in British Television’ and ‘Television in Wales, 1960-80’ in Hilmes and Jacobs (eds.), The Television History Book (British Film Institute/University of California Press, 2003), pp.40-44.

‘Teledu Cymru: Menter Gyffrous neu Freuddwyd Ffôl?’ in Jenkins (ed.), Cof Cenedl XVII (Gomer, 2002), pp. 167-193.

‘The mass media in twentieth century Wales’ in Rees & Jones (eds.), A Nation and its Books (National Library of Wales, 1998), pp. 329-340.

‘Broadcasting and other visual archives in Wales’ in Ballantyne (ed.), Researcher’s Guide to British Film and Television Collections (British Universities Film and Video Council, 1993), pp.15-19.

Erthyglau mewn cyfnodolion academaidd :

‘Minorities with a Message: the Beveridge Report on Broadcasting (1949-51) and Wales’, Twentieth Century British History 19, 2 (2008), 217-233.

'Wales Television – Mammon’s Television? ITV in Wales in the 1960s’, Media History 10, 2 (2004), 119-131.

‘“You say a minority, Sir; we say a nation”: The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting (1960-62) and Wales’, Welsh History Review, 22, 2 (2004), 109-136.

‘Servant of Two Tongues: the demise of TWW’, Llafur: Journal of Welsh Labour History 8, 3 (2002), 79-87.

Erthgylau mewn cyfnodolion eraill :

‘Esblygiad neu Chwyldro? Ffenomenon teledu realiti’, Tu Chwith 14, Winter 2000, pp. 109-112.

Papurau seminar a chynhadledd :

Television in Wales in the 1970s’, Televising History conference, University of Lincoln, July 2009. 

‘‘The One-Eyed Devil’: television in Wales in the 1950s and 1960s’, IAMHIST 2009 conference: Social Fears and Moral Panics, Aberystwyth University, July 2009.

 ‘Defining the Medium: the pre-history of television in the UK, 1923-1936’, Television: the experimental moment - from invention to institution (1935-1955) conference, University of Paris 8, May 2009 

‘Using Media Archives’, AHRC Research Training for doctoral students, UCL, May 2009 [invited speaker] 

‘ITV in Wales: broadcasting’s poor relation?’, AHRC Ireland-Wales Symposium, Aberystwyth University, April 2009 [invited speaker]'Narrating Broadcasting History in Wales', MeCCSA Conference, Bradford University, 14-16 January 2009.

'"A Very Tiresome Invention": some preliminary thoughts on the early years of television and the BBC', Southern Broadcasting History Group, Bournemouth University, 4-5 December 2008.

‘Defining the Medium: the pre-history of television in the UK, 1923-1936’, Television: the experimental moment - from invention to institution (1935-1955) , University of Paris 8, May 2009.

‘Servant of Two Tongues: ITV and national identity in Wales’, Wales Institute of Social and Cultural Affairs seminar, Bangor University, December 2008.

‘The Regional, the National and ITV in Wales’, Anglia Television and the History of ITV conference, University of East Anglia, November 2008.

‘An excess of impetuous zeal, or, why Teledu Cymru was doomed to fail from the start’, S4C at 25 conference, National Library of Wales, November 2007.

‘Narrating the Stateless Nation: a case study of Welsh television’, Narrating the Nation: television narratives and national identities conference, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Catalonia, October 2007.

‘A Love-Hate Relationship: television and the Welsh nation’, Revisiting Television Histories conference, King’s College London, April 2007.

‘Teledu Cymru: Mammon vs Mamwlad’, International Conference on Welsh Studies, University of Wales Swansea, July 2006.

‘Teledu Cymru – the only ITV regional company to fail on financial grounds’, Association for Research in Popular Fiction: ITV at 50 conference, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, October 2005.

‘Teledu Cymru – Teledu Mamon?’, Milestones conference, University of Wales Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies Centre, July 2005.

‘Piecing together ‘Mammon’s television’: a case study in historical television research’, Breaking Boundaries in Television Historiography: Historical Research and the Television Archive conference, University of Reading, January 2004.

‘The BBC's reaction to ITV in Wales in the 1960s’ , BBC History Seminar, University of Westminster, September 2003.

‘Commercial television in Wales in the 1960s’, Broadcasting Histories conference, University of Central Lancashire, June 2002.

‘Cultural Imperialism? The BBC and the early years of radio in Wales’, Radiodyssey Conference 2001, University of Brighton, July 2001.

‘The role of commercial television in the creation of a Welsh identity in the 1960s’ , Seventh Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), University of Bergen, Norway, August 2000.

‘Wales in the early days of commercial television’ , International Media History Conference, University of Westminster, July 1998.