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Dr Merris Griffiths

Lecturer in Film, Television & Media
BA, PhD (Wales), PGCTHE Photograph of Dr Merris Griffiths.

Contact

Email: lmg@aber.ac.uk
Office: S.04 Parry Williams
Phone: 01970 622829
Personal Web Site:http://www.merrisgriffiths.co.uk/

Responsibilities

  • Curriculum Leader for Film, Television and Media
  • Member of the University’s ALTO Steering Group
  • Member of the Departmental Learning & Teaching Committee

Teaching Areas

  • FM10620 Studying Media (contributor)
  • MC30420 The Surveillance Society (coordinator)
  • MC31120 Advertising: Industry & Analysis (coordinator)
  • MC32620 Children & the Media (coordinator)
  • TF32820 Dissertation (coordinator)
  • PhD Supervision

Research

Children's television and youth audiences, media literacy (policy and practice), 'media representation' of social groups (especially children), gendered readerships of media texts, the advertising industry, creative/visual research methodologies.

Biography

Merris Griffiths began her academic career in the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at Aberystwyth, as a Lecturer in Education. She joined the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies in 2002, lecturing primarily in Media & Communication. In 2005, she worked at the School of Education, University of Montana-Missoula USA, specialising in media literacy. Then, after briefly lecturing in Childhood Studies at Swansea University, she returned to TFTS in 2007. She is an active member of the Wales Media Literacy Network (co-run by Ofcom and Niace Dysgu Cymru), production co-ordinator for the online journal Participations, and a member of the Advertising Education Forum and the International Toy Researchers’ Association.

Staff Links

Staff Publications

  • Griffiths, Merris (forthcoming): ‘Favoured Free-time: Comparing children’s activity preferences in the UK and the USA’, Children & Society
  • Griffiths, Merris (2009): ‘Small Town on the Big Screen: The Edge of Love and the Local Experience’, Participations 6(2)
  • Griffiths, Merris: ‘A Troublesome Sub-Genre – Advertising to Children’, in Creeber, Glen (Ed) (2008): The Television Genre Book (2nd Edition). London: BFI Publications
  • Griffiths, Merris & Tom O’Malley (2007): ‘Media Literacy in Wales: A Critical Review of Industry & Education Policies & Practices’. Cyfrwng 4, pp. 4-23
  • Griffiths, Merris: ‘Advertising and the Child – A Critical Overview of Key Theories and Debates’. In: Gruffydd-Jones, Elin (Ed). (2006): Astudiaethau Prifysgol: Ffilm, Teledu a'r Cyfryngau, University of Wales Press
  • Griffiths, Merris (2005): ‘Representations of Disabilities in S4C Welsh-Language Programming’, Cyfrwng 2 (28 pages)
  • Griffiths, Merris (2005): ‘Children drawing toy commercials: Re-imagining television production conventions’, Journal of Visual Communication Vol. 4 (1), Feb. 2005
  • Chandler, Daniel & Merris Griffiths: ‘Who is the fairest of them all? Gendered Readings of Big Brother 2 (UK)’. In: Mathijs, Ernest & Janet Jones (Eds.) (2004):  Big Brother International - Format, Critics and Publics. Wallflower Press pp. 40-61
  • Griffiths, Merris & David Machin (2003): ‘Television and playground games as part of children’s symbolic culture’, Social Semiotics Vol. 13 (2), pp. 147-160
  • Griffiths, Merris: ‘Blue worlds and pink worlds – A portrait of intimate polarity’. In: Buckingham, David (Ed.) (2002): Small Screens. Leicester: Leicester University Press, pp. 159-184
  • Chandler, Daniel & Merris Griffiths: ‘Gender-Differentiated Production Features in Toy Commercials’. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. Summer 2000, pp. 503-520