Having obtained a degree in Psychosocial Studies at UEL, Julia conducted her Postgraduate research in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, London. Julia's research interests are around media representation of gender and sexuality. In particular, she is interested in teenage girls' engagement with contemporary discourses of femininity.  Julia has taught Media and Advertising at UEL since 2006, with a focus on representation and audience/consumer research.

As programme leader for Advertising, Julia is responsible for the development of the degree to reflect the rapidly changing demands of the industry. Julia's research interests inform her teaching practice. Julia teaches consumer and audience research methods, theoretical approaches to media and gender and practices of self promotion.

Julia's teaching and research relates to audience engagement with promotional media. As such, she isinterested in the history and development of consumer and audience research methods. Her research has focussed on girls' engagment with female representation such as in music video and she is currently exploring girls' enagement with the Twilight series.

• Advertising
• Cultural Studies
• Media Studies
• Journalism

• Level 1 MS1407 Media and Gender
• Level 1 CC1704 Media Lab1 Self Promotional Culture
• Level 2 CC2503 The Television Audience
• Level 2 CC2203 Sexual Cultures
• Level 2 CC2702 Advertising and Consumer Research Methods
• Level 3 CC3000 Dissertation in Cultural Studies and Creative Industries

"Lynx: The challenges of lad culture" Julia Dane & Catherine Yoon in The Advertising Handbook (2009) Powell, H., Hardy, J., Hawkin, S., & MacRury, I. Routledge, London

Julia Dane (2012) Girls; running the world or growing up too fast? www.ioe.ac.uk/Study.../SIG_Gender_SexCulture_Julia_Dane.pdf

Julia Dane What Happened To Girl Power? Girls and Nostalgia Networking Knowledge Vol 5, No 1 (2012) Girlhood in Popular Culture

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• Sexualisation of Culture Conference at the Institute of Education, London, (2011) ‘Girls; running the world or growing up too fast?’

• East London Literary Festival University of East London (2011) ‘Bella and Edward; a modern day fairy story?’

• Transforming Audiences, University of Westminster (2007) ‘They’re trying to make us be like them’; music videos as a site of disidentification in growing up girl’

• MeCCSA Leeds Metropolitan (2006) ‘Survival and Solidarity: Girls and Music Video’

• PhD (2007) 'Girls' Talk; New Feminities, Old Moralities'