School of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Refereed Journal Articles
• Periodic Articles
• Monographs
• Edited collections
• Reports
• Book chapters
• Selected Conference Papers
• Academic Honours and grants
• Selected Invited Lectures
• Filmography

Refereed Journal Articles

• Bresheeth, H "The Continued Trauma and the Palestinian Struggle: Recent Cinematic Representations of the Nakba", South Cinema Notebooks, Issue #2, December 2007, Pardess Publishing, Israel (Hebrew) pp.25-45 ISBN 978-965-7171-58-5
• Bresheeth, H. “Elasticity of Narrative Time: Time Travel in Science Fiction Cinema” in Journal of European Psychoanalysis, No. 23, 2007. pp. 59-84. ISSN: 1125-8217
• Bresheeth, H “The Nakba Projected: Recent Palestinian Cinema”, in Bresheeth, H and Hammami, H (Eds) The Conflict and Contemporary Visual Culture in Palestine & Israel, special double-issue, No. 80/81, Vol. 20, issue 3-4, October 2006, of Third Text, ISSN: 0952-8822
• Bresheeth, H “The Nakbah in Palestinian Recent Cinema” in the special double-issue of Third Text on Palestinian and Israeli Art, Literature, Architecture and Cinema., Volume 20, Issue 3, September 2006
• Bresheeth, H “Projecting Trauma: War Photography and the Public Sphere” Third Text, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2006, pp. 57-72
• Bresheeth, H “The Media Market Share Wars: USA Vs UE”, Journal of Media Practice, Volume 3, # 3, Intellect Press, Summer 2003. pp. 141-154. ISSN 1468-2753
• Bresheeth, H. “A Symphony of Absence: Borders and Liminality in Chronicle of a Disappearance by Elia Suleiman”, Framework, # 43.2, Fall 2002. pp. 71-84. ISSN 0306-766
• Bresheeth, H. “Telling the Stories of Heim and Heimat, Home and Exile: Recent Palestinian Films and the Iconic Parable of Invisible Palestine”,New Cinemas, issue # 1, October 2001. pp. 24-39. ISSN 1474-2756
• Bresheeth, H. “History, Memory, Myth: Location in Pasolini’s work on Edipo Re and Il Vangello Secondo Matteo” Zemanim, Summer 2001, # 75, Historical Quarterly of Tel Aviv University (Hebrew). pp 47-57
• Bresheeth, H. “Borders and Liminality in Palestinian Cinema”, Teoria VeBikoret, Vol 18, April 2001, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem (Hebrew). pp 77-102
• Bresheeth, H. “Givat Aliya as a Parable”, Teoria VeBikoret, (Theory and Criticism)Vol 16, February 2000, Van Leer Research Institute, Jerusalem (Hebrew). pp 233-238
• Bresheeth, H. “Memory and Commemoration in the High-Tech Era”, Paz, Iris (ed) The Shaping of Memory, Vol. 2, Askola Publications, Tel Aviv 1998 (Hebrew) pp 162-171

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Periodic Articles

A large number of articles in Hebrew (Ha’aretz daily Broadsheet, Tel Aviv) and English (Al Ahram Weekly, Cairo). For examples of articles in English, please check into the Al Ahram site. Some examples:

2006

• Resignation from the Cinema Darom Film Festival Jury, Israel, May 2006: English - German
• Sad Reflections on Jewish Morality: English - Japanese - Danish

2004

• Two states, too little too late: English - French
• Democratised Brutality
• Fear in the Frame
• Commandments, commanders and commandants
• Sharon’s Willing Accomplices: English - German
• Resisting Israeli Apartheid: Strategies and Principles

2003

• Less than Divine Intervention
• Welcome to Tombstone!
• It is Not Anti-Semitic to Criticise Israel
• Lecture at Jews Against Zionism meeting, June 18th, 2003
• Full Sound download of above talk(needs RealPlayer Audio Software)

2002

• J'accuse: English - Spanish
• The ghetto is calling
• Operation fat chance
• Operation exploding broccoli
• Countdown to chaos
• Who's eaten Dubya's porridge?
• The Time to Act is Now

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Monographs

• Bresheeth, H & Hood, S Introducing the Holocaust, New York, Tattoo Press, 1997, 180 pp. (two editions, revised version of the above) ISBN 1 874166 16 1 Translated into Croatian and Turkish. - Amazon webpage
• Bresheeth, H & Hood, S The Holocaust for Beginners, London, Icon Press, 1994, 176 pp. (three editions) Translated into several languages. ISBN 1 874166 16 1

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Edited collections

• Bresheeth, H and Hammami, H (Eds) The Conflict and Contemporary Visual Culture in Palestine & Israel, special double-issue, No. 80/81, Vol. 20, issue 3-4, October 2006, of Third Text on Palestinian and Israeli Art, Literature, Architecture and Cinema. ISSN: 0952-8822
• Bresheeth, H Zand, S and Zimmerman, M (eds) Cinema and Memory:Dangerous Liaisons, Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Centre (Hebrew) 2004, 378 pp. ISBN 965-227-191-8
• Bresheeth, H & Yuval-Davis, N (eds) The Gulf War and the New World Order, London, Zed Books, 1992, 294 pp. ISBN 1 85649 042 4
• Bresheeth, H (Co-Editor) Khamsin:Palestine - A Profile of an Occupation, London, Zed Books, 1989, 184 pp. ISBN 0 86232 889 6

Cinema and Memory: Dangerous Liaisons

This anthology, the first in Hebrew on this topic, is bringing together some long-established texts on film and history , by scholars such as Robert Rosenstone  and others , with a wide-ranging selection of  new articles on a variety of topics. Covered here are subjects such as Nazi films and their historical representation strategies, Fascist cinema of the spectacle, the origins of the vampire genre, French film representations of resistance and collaboration in WW2, and Hollywood representations of the Romans and the Roman Empire. For the first time, some original historical research on aspects of early cinema in Palestine  and Israel  is also presented here. The book deals with the complex relationship between History, memory and cinematic representations of historical, mythological and epic narratives.

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Reports

• Bresheeth, H. Public Broadcasting in Israel, (Hebrew), commissioned and published by the Ministry of Science and Culture, October 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel. A comprehensive report on the state of Public Broadcasting in Israel, and outlining the necessary changes required in order to modernise the system. Chair of Public Commission and author of the report
• Bresheeth, H Film and Video Education in the EEC, a review of trends and directions in Education and Training for the Film and Video in the European Community. Commissioned by the EEC Erasmus Research Institution, published 1987, 877

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Book chapters

• Bresheeth, H “A Chronicle of Disappearance: Elia Suleiman, Palestine 1996” in Gönül Dönmez-Colin (ed) North African and Middle Eastern Cinema, Wallflower Press, London (2007).
• Bresheeth, H “The Palestinian Nakba on Film: Memories of History” a chapter in Leila Abu-Loughoud and Ahmad Sa’adi (eds) The Palestinian Nakba, (Columbia University Press, 2007)
• Bresheeth, H “The Continuity of Trauma and Struggle: Recent Cinematic Representations of the Nakba” in Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad Sa’di (eds) Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory , Columbia University Press, New York, 2007
• Bresheeth, H. “Elasticity of Narrative Time: Time Travel in Science Fiction Cinema” Peroni, Emilia (ed) Time: Psychoanalytical and Other Disciplines, Van Leer Institute/Kibutz Meuhad, Jerusalem (Hebrew, 2004). pp. 146-163. ISBN 965 02 0261 7.
• Bresheeth, H “The Long Gaze Backwards: recent Israeli Cinema” in Gordon Hon (ed) What Remains to be Seen, Multi Exposure Publications, 2004, pp. 44-49. ISBN 0 9546641 0 8
• Bresheeth, H “The Development of the Vampire Genre: Representation of the Social Other” in Bresheeth, H Zand, S and Zimmerman, M (eds) Cinema and Memory:Dangerous Liaisons, Jerusalem,Zalman Shazar Centre (Hebrew) January 2004, pp. 153-168. ISBN 965-227-191-8
• Bresheeth, H “Givat Aliya as a Parable”, in Yehuda Shenhav (ed) Space, Land, Home, Van Leer Institute, 2003. (Hebrew) pp.251-257. ISBN 965-02-0173-4
• Bresheeth, H. “The Great Taboo Broken - Reflections on the Israeli Reception of Schindler’s List” in Loshitzky, Y (ed) - Spielberg’s Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler’s List; Indiana University Press, 1997, pp 193-212. ISBN is: 0-253-33232-X
• Bresheeth, H. “The New World Order”in Bresheeth, H & Yuval-Davis, N (eds)- The Gulf War and the New World Order , Zed Books, London 1992, pp 243-256. ISBN: 1 85649 042 4
• Bresheeth, H. “The Israeli Self and Palestinian Other”, in - Khamsin:Palestine - A Profile of an Occupation Zed Books, London 1989, pp 120-152. ISBN is: 0-86232-889-6.
• Bresheeth, H. and Bezencenet, S. “Photographic Archives”, in Stevie Bezencenet and Phillip Corrigan Photographic Practices: Towards a Different Image, Comedia, London 1986, pp 61-65, ISBN is: 0906890500

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Selected Conference Papers

• April 2005 - Marking the Social other by Blood: The Vampire Genre, Fortress Europe Conference, Senate House, University of London
• April 2005 - History, Memory, Myth: Location in Pasolini’s Work, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
• May 2004 - History, Memory, Myth: Locations in Pasolini’s Work on Edipo Re and Il VangelloSecondoMatteo, Association of Mediterranean Studies, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
• November 2003 - Plenary Panel Speaker: Whatever happened to the End of History?Conference on "Smart Bombs, Dumb Wars,” Institute of Education,London,UK.
• October 2003 - The Palestinian Naqbah on film: Recent Palestinian Cinema: Memory of Catastrophe and Trauma, at the conference In the Shadow of 9/11: Islam and Political Dissent in the Middle East, at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Univerity of Wales, Swansea.
• July 2003 - History, Memory, Myth: Locations in Pasolini’s Work on Edipo Re and Il VangelloSecondoMatteo, Culture and the Unconscious conference, SOAS, London
• June 2003 - The Cyborg Body: From Golem to Replicant, at the6th Annual Conference of English and Literary Studies, Inscriptions in the Sand, EastMediterraneanUniversity, Famagusta, Cyprus
• November 2002 - The Market Share Wars between the EU and the USA, AMPE annual conference, University of East London
• July 2002 - The Market Share Wars between the EU and the USA, Trading Cultures conference, Sheffield.
• July 2001 - The Media War - US Vs EU, at the Global Image Conference, British Film Institute at the Institute of Eduaction, London.
• June 2001 - The Media War - US Vs EU, at the Consoling Passions UK Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol.
• May 2001 -The Manufactured Present and the Myth as Truth: History, Myth and Locus in Some Films by Pasolini, at the Society for Cinema Studies, Washington, USA.
• Jan 2001 -The Other and Stranger in Recent European Cinema, at the European Cinema Research Forum Conference, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
• November 2000 -The Camera Never Lies? - the Israeli Media Coverage of the 2ndIntifada, at the Media in Crisis Symposium, Sapir College, Israel
• March 2000 -Home and Exile in Palestinian Cinema, at the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, USA.
• December 1999 -Reflective Dualities in the Cinema: Eisenstein Revived With Some Assistance FromLacan, The International Psychoanalytic Association, “Freud at the Threshold of the 21st Century, Jerusalem, Israel.
• May 1999 - Memory and Commemoration in the Internet Age, for theHaifaUniversity conference on History and Memory of the Holocaust.
• April 1999 - Liminality in Recent Palestinian and Israeli Cinema, at the Society of Cinema Studies annual conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
• December 1998 - USAvs EU - The Market Share Media Wars at the Department of Communication Studies, TelAvivUniversity
• July 1998 - The Absent Other: Borders and liminality in Chronicle of a Disappearance, at the ICA (International Communications Association) 48th annual conference, Jerusalem.
• May 1998 - Chronicle of a Disappearance - The Disappearing Palestinian in EliaSuleiman’s film, at the TelAvivUniversityLa Long Duree Conference, 2nd Tel Aviv International Colloquium in Cinema Studies, June 8-11, 1998, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• April 1998 - The Media Wars at the Society of Cinema Studies annual conference, San Diego, USA
• July 1997 - USA Vs EU - The Market Share Media Wars, at the International Institute of Sociology, conference at Cologne, Germany
• March 1997 - Commemoration in the High-Tech Age, at the BezalelArtAcademy, Jerusalem.
• March 1997 - A series of lectures on Science Fiction film and its scientific background; theScienceMuseum, Jerusalem.
• February 1997 - Israeli Media Privatisation: a view from London, at the Israeli Sociological Association conference
• February 1997 - Collaborative Art Practices in 1970’s London, at the Day Symposium on Art Education, BeitBerlArtCollege, Zofit
• January 1997 - Commemoration in the High-Tech Age, at the conference on Alternative Burial and Commemoration, MenuchaNechona, RamatGan.
• Aug 1995 - ‘Narrating the Other: Palestine and Israel in Recent Israeli Literature’ - paper delivered at the BerlinTheory, Culture and Society 2nd international conference.
• February 1995 - Public lecture on ‘Representing the Holocaust’ at the International Year of the Book, Swansea.
• July 1993 - ‘The Media Wars - US Vs Europe’ at the CSE conference, 1993 London

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Academic Honours and Grants

• May 2004 - granted AHRC Research Grant for the project “Exiled Art”, researching the holding of art treasures from the Third World in Western museums and galleries (Sep 2004-October 2005).
• October 2003 - August 2006: Principal Investigator, fronting a SRIF 2 project grant for the Matrix East Research Lab at UEL, which I am directing and project coordinating. £448,000 over two Years to build a New Screen Media Research Centre. This is now being completed, and will be fully operational from November 2006
• October 2000-October 2003: Recipient (with Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky) of research grant ($27,000 per annum) from the Israel Science Foundation, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities for research on The Other and Stranger in Recent European Cinema
• October 1999-September 2000: Recipient of research grant ($2,000 per annum) from the Centre for European Studies, HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem, for research on The Other and Stranger in Recent European Cinema
• 1996: Recipient of the Wingate Scholarship for work on the project “Land of Shadows” about the physical remains of the Galician Jewry

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Selected Invited Lectures

• May 2005 - Annual Lecture of the Refugee Research Centre, UEL: "Marking the Social Other by Blood: Jews and other in the Vampire genre"
• November 2005 - invited lecture on Recent Israeli Cinema, at Cambridge University, St. John’s College,Cambridge, UK
• November 2004 - invited presentation on Negotiating the Modern: Palestinian Cinema, Silence and Storytelling at the Tradition and the Modern symposium, part of the Modernity and Its Disciplines, AHRC programme, SOAS,London
• February 2003 - invited lecture onThe Media Wars - USA Vs the EU, at the School of Art and Design, MiddlesexUniversity, London,UK
• May 2002 - The Golem, the Vampire and the Robot: Others and Strangers in European Cinema, Colloquium at the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies, University of East London,UK
• March 2002 - invited lecture onSelf and Other in Palestinian and Israeli Cinema, and screening of the film A State of Danger (Bresheeth, 1989, UK) St. John’s College, Cambridge, UK
• March 2001 - a public lecture on Elasticity of Narrative Time: Time Travel in Science Fiction Cinema as part of a public lecture series organised by EmiliaPeroni on Time: Psychoanalytical and Other Perspectives, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem,Israel
• March 2001 - a public lecture on Who Represents, Who Is Represented - Israeli Public Broadcasting, at the conference Between Centre and Periphery: The Cultural, Economic and Social Inequalities and Their Meanings, organised by the Rabin Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Jan 2001 - A public lecture and paper on Trends in Recent Palestinian Cinema, at the Empty Land Film Festival, De Balie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Jan 2001 - Screening and discussion of State of Danger (Bresheeth, 1989) at the Empty Land Film Festival, De Balie, Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
• December 2000 - Utopia and Dystopia in Science Fiction Cinema, at the International Armageddon Festival, Jerusalem and Megiddo, Israel
• November 2000 -The Media Wars - USA Vs the EU, at the Vienna on Film conference, Ben Gurion University, Israel
• September 2000 -The Manufactured Present and the Myth as Truth: History, Myth and Locus in Some Films by Pasolini, at the A Bridge Over the Mediterranean: History and Cinema around the Mediterranean, an international seminar, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
• September 2000 -Woman and Women in Science Fiction Cinema, at the 2nd Science Fiction Festival, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel
• May 2000 - Home and Exile in Palestinian Cinema, at the Tel Aviv Biannual Cinema Studies International Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• March 2000 -Home and Exile in Palestinian Cinema, at the International Seminar on Film and Media in the Middle East, organised by the Cultural Disorder Project of the Department of Media Studies at Bergen University, in cooperation with the journal Framework, the Bergen Cinematheque and Bergen European City of Culture 2000,Bergen, Norway.
• May 1998 - Presentation of the film A State of Danger at a day symposium at Ben Gurion University on Documentary Practices, Israel
• April 1992 - A State of Danger (film showing and discussion), University of Massachusetts

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Filmography

• 2010 – Darwin’s Dream, a 10 minute 21- screen video installation, to be premiered at MERL in April 2010. The installation includes no photographic video footage – it is wholly based on electronic virtual imagery.
• 2008 – A Civilised Clash, 18 minute – a 16 screen drama-dance production, with Prof. Lizbeth Goodman and Bobby Byrne as the Dancers. Music by arrangement with Kila, Dublin. An introduction to the project and Production photographs can be viewed here. To see a short clip of the making of this film, click here. To see the whole installation in situ, click A Civilised Clash. This was shot by two cameras from the audience position during the July 2008 Summer show at MERL.
• 1990 - In Progress - Art in Exile, 45 min. (projected) a documentary about the art acquisition policies of western museums, to be shot in UK,USA, France,Italy and Egypt. Financed by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council,UK) - AHRC site reference
• 1989 - A State of Danger, 30 min., a documentary about Israeli-Palestinian cooperation during the Intifada.  Aired on BBC2, March 1989.  Director/Producer, Sound, shown in film festivals at Chicago, October, 1989, Leipzig , November, 1989, and France, October, 1989, Recently shown at the EmptyLand Film Festival, Amsterdam (January 2001). Distributed through Women Make Movies in New York. For the film page
• 1981  -  The Options, 30 min., a documentary about the Steel Workers strike. Production, Sound, Camera
• 1977-1979 - Senior Producer/Director at Medi-Cine, producing and directing over 30 individual films, mainly medical documentaries. The main productions were:
  • CVC - an 8-part series of films about the Cardio-Vascular system, each on a different aspect, lasting half an hour. Produced for ICI.
  • Echo Sound - A series of  4 films, concentrating on what was then a revolutionary method of medical examination of internal organs, each part lasting 25 minutes.
  • Ampicillin - A film of 30 minutes presenting what was then the newest antibiotic
• 1977  -  Dinosaurs in the Playground, 40 min., a documentary charting the development, over a number of years, of a public art project in London.  Commissioned by the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA).  Distributed through the Arts Council of Great Britain.  Production, Camera
• 1975  -  The Crumbling Ivory Tower, 45 min., a documentary about art eductaion in Britain, commissioned by UNESCO.  Distributed through UNESCO.  Director, Producer
• 1973  -  The Test, 11 min., fiction.  Director, Producer
• 1972  -  Spring's End, 19 min., fiction.  Director, Producer. First shown at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, TelAvivMuseum, Novenber 1972
• 1971  -  Running, 10 min., fiction (based on a story by F. Kafka), Director, Producer

• Professional and Public Service
• Advisor/External Examiner/Assessor roles

Professional and Public Service

• 2002 - Member of the Executive of AMPE (Association of Media Practice Educators)
• 2002 - External Examiner on the MA in Documentary Film, at University of Western England, Bristol
• 2000 - 2002 Executive Member of the Israel Film Council, and lector of production projects
• 1999 -‏ 2002 Member of the Documentary Directors Forum, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2000 - Chair of the Selection Committee, the DocAviv International Documentary Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2000 Chair of the Committee on Public Broadcasting In Israel (Commissioned by the Minister of Science and Culture) and author of its official report (October 2000)
• 2000 Founder of the Cinema Darom (Cinema South) Film Festival
• 1998 - Member of the Editorial Board, Theoria Vebikoret Journal, Jerusalem
• 1998 - Founder and Chair of the Sderot Cinematheque
• 1996 - 2002 Executive Member of the Israeli Communication Association
• 1999 Chair of the Jury of the DocAvivInternational Documentary Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 1997 Jury Member on the Jerusalem International Film Festival, Jerusalem,Israel
• 1998 Chair of the Jury at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, Jerusalem,Israel
• 1998 - Initiator and Executive Member of the Gaza Media Training Centre, a professional training School planned for Gaza - a cooperation project with Palestinian producer, Qassem Ali
• 1995 - 1997 Member of the Court of Governors, The London Institute
• 1986-1991 Member, Executive of the Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians (ACTT - now BECTU)
• 1989 Advisor, Film and Video, LowestoftCollege of Higher Education, Suffolk,UK
• 1988-1996 Member, Executive of the National Association of Higher Education in Film and Video. (8-member executive of a body including all 56 courses, departments and colleges working in the area of Film and Video)
• 1982-1983 Member, Film and Video Grants Panel, The Gulbenkian Foundation, London
• 1980-1984 Member of the Board of Governors - West Surrey College of Art & Design

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Advisor/External Examiner/Assessor roles

• 2005 External Examiner on PhD Thesis: Bezalel Art Academy and its Ideological Contradictions, by Sara Khinski, Tel Aviv University
• 2004 External Assessor on the Subject Review of the Media School, Sunderland University, Sunderland
• 2004 External Examiner of PhD Thesis: The Iranian Film Industry and the State, by Nilufar Ashtari, University of Wales, Swansea
• 2003 External Assessor on the Subject Review on the Media MA Scheme at the Bournemouth University, Bournemouth
• 2002 External Examiner on PhD Thesis: Young Moroccans and the New Media, by Tariq Sabri, University of Westminster
• 2001 External Examiner on PhD Thesis: Latin American Cinema, by ZviTal, TelAvivUniversity
• 1999-2001 External Examiner and Assessor, MA Fine Art, Fine Art School, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1998 Academic Assessor, Media Studies; The Open University, Tel Aviv,Israel
• 1997 Advising and writing BA Media Studies programme, Netania College, Israel
• 1994 - 1998 External Examiner on BA (Hons) Media Production at University of Glamorgan, in Cardiff and Pontypridd, Wales, UK
• 1992 - 1996 External Examiner on the MA in Electro-acoustic Music for Film and TV, at Bournemouth University,UK
• 1991 - 1995 Chief External Examiner - Film/Video production - University of Northumbria - Newcastle,UK
• 1991 Special Advisor to the Singapore EDB (Economic Development Bureau) and the Ministry of Education on the setting up of a Media Faculty in Singapore
• 1991 - 1994 External Examiner, BA (Hons) Media Production - Thames Valley University, London, UK
• 1988 - 1989 External Assessor, St. Martin's School of Art, BA (Hons) Film and Video Option, London,UK
• 1984 - 1992 Specialist advisor to the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA), Photography panel, area of Film and Video, London, UK