Professor Tom O'Malley

Professor of Media Studies
BA (Hons) (Birmingham), PhD (Glamorgan) Photograph of Professor Tom O'Malley.

Contact

Email: tpo@aber.ac.uk
Office: S20 Parry-Williams
Phone: 01970 621505
Fax: 01970 622831

Responsibilities

Departmental Director of Research; Member of Departmental Management Committee; Member of Departmental Research Committee; Member of Departmental Staff Development Committee


Research

Tom O’Malley’s current and ongoing research interests are in the areas of media history in the UK; media policy in the UK; history of ideas about the media; media in Wales. He has supervised PhDs in international media, broadcasting history and contemporary television studies, and is particularly interested in supervising students in the area of media history.

Dr Sian Nicholas and Professor Tom O’Malley were awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant bid to the value of £249,785 for the project ‘A social and cultural history of the British press in World War II (Leverhulme ref: RGP-085), commencing 1st September 2011. The three year project is managed by Dr Sian Nicholas (Principal Investigator, Department of History and Welsh History) and Professor Tom O’Malley (Co-Investigator). The project team comprises the Research Assistant, Dr Marc Wiggam and two PhD students, Ms C. Dale and Mr K. Lovell

Biography

Tom O’Malley taught previously at the Universities of East London and the University of Glamorgan. He has published on broadcasting and press history and policy in the UK and in Wales. He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Media History, and a member of the Media History Centre at the University of Aberystwyth. He is an Honorary Associate of the Centre For Media History, Division of Humanities, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. He is on the Editorial Board of Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. He has submitted evidence on media policy to the UK and Welsh Governments. He is a member of the National Council of the Campaign For Press and Broadcasting Freedom.

Teaching

  • FM10620 Studying Media
  • FM22020 Contemporary Debates in Media Policy
  • FM22120 Digital Journalism
  • FM21720 Media History
  • TF33220 Media in the 1950s
  • PhD supervision

Publications

Media History

 


I am co-founder and co-editor of the journal Media History, (Routledge), which publishes on topics relating to media history since the 15th century and is international and interdisciplinary in scope.

 

 Selected Publications

  • Tom O’Malley,(2012)  ‘History, Historians and the Writing of Print and Newspaper History in the UK c.1945-1962’, Media History, 18 (3-4): 289-310.
  • T.O'Malley and C.Soley, Regulating the Press ( London, Pluto, 2000),ISBN 07453 11970 (pb) 07453 11989 (hb).
  • T.O’Malley, ‘Media History and Media Studies: aspects of the development of the study of media history in the UK 1945-2000’, Media History, Vol.8, No.2, 2002: 155-173.
  • T.O'Malley,(2003) '90s Satellites, Cable and New Channels', 'Rupert Murdoch', 'The BBC adapts to Competition' and 'Zircon' in M.Hilmes, ed., The Television History Book (London, BF1): 59-62, 86-89.
  • Tom O’Malley, Keeping Broadcasting Public: The BBC and the 2006 Charter Review, (London, CPBF, 2005, 2nd, revised printing).
  • D.Barlow, P.Mitchell and T. O’Malley, The Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2005).ISBN 0-7083-1839-8 (pb) ISBN 0-7083-1840-1 (hb)
  • T.O’Malley (2006) ‘The BBC and the State’ in Creeber, G, ed. Tele-Visions. An Introduction to Studying Television (London, BFI):131-136
  • T.O’Malley, (2006) ‘The Newspaper Press in Wales’, Contemporary Wales 18 :202-213.
  • T.O’Malley, (2006) ‘Roundtable: Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950.By Mark Hampton’ Media History, Vol. 12 No 1:77-79
  • D.Barlow, P.Mitchell and T.O’Malley, (2006) The Communicative Dimension of Civil Society: Media and the Public Sphere’ in G.Day, D.Dunkerley and A.Thompson eds., Civil Society in Wales: Policy Politics and People (Cardiff, UWP,):15-36 ( ISBN 10-07083-1850(Pbk))
  • Tom O’Malley,(2007)‘Typically anti-American’? The Labour movement, America and broadcasting in Britain, from Beveridge to Pilkington, 1949-62 in J.Wiener and M.Hampton eds, Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000 (London, Palgrave):234-253( ISBN 978-0-230-52125-4 )
  • M.Griffiths and T.O’Malley,(2007) ‘Media Literacy in Wales: A Critical Review of Industry and Education Policies’, Cyfrwng Vol 4:7-23
  • Sian Nicholas, Tom O’Malley and Kevin Williams, eds (2008) Reconstructing the Past: History in the Mass Media 1890-2005 (London, Routledge)
  • T.O'Malley and J.Jones (eds) (2009) The Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy (London: Palgrave Macmillan).
  • T.O’Malley, (2010) ‘Roundtable: Narrating Media History edited by Michael Bailey’ Media History, Vol.16. No 2: 245-248.
  • T.O’Malley,(2011) ‘Wales, ITV and regulation’, Cyfrwng, Volume 8: 7-22.