Dr Janet Harris

PhD (Cardiff)

Senior Lecturer

: harrisj14@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44(0)29 208 76279
: 1.25, Bute Building

An award winning documentary producer/director, having worked for many years at the BBC and as a freelancer with experience of working in Iraq in war and in post war. Holds a PhD on the media coverage of the British military in post-war Iraq at Cardiff University with experience of teaching and developing modules in international journalism and on practical and academic media courses.

Career Overview

2103 - present: Lecturer Cardiff University

2011-2012: Lecturer Swansea University

2002 - 2103: Freelance TV producer/Director

This World: Did my son die in Vain? BBC2 2013: Doha Heroes Al Rayyan TV 2012: British Army: Be the Best? Sky 1 2005: The Queen's Cavalry BBC1 2005; Soldier, Husband, Daughter, Dad. BBC1 2004: Spy BBC2 2004: Inside Saddam's Iraq ITV & Middle East Broadcasting 2004: Fighting the War BBC2 2003: Flying School C5 2002.

Edit Director: Murder or Mutiny 2006 Sky TV:

TV Producer/Director BBC

The Money Programme 2002; Welcome To Britain (Series) BBC2 2001 BAFTA nomination); Brighton Bill (Series) BBC1 2000; Soldiers to Be BBC1 (Series) 1999; Animal Police (Series) BBC1 1998

Assistant Producer

1997 The System (Peter Dale) Grierson Award 1995 Mad About the Boy’ (Helena Appio) Modern times BBC2: 1993 Line Producer 'Sarajevo: Street Under Siege BAFTA Best original series) 1993 BBC2: 40 Minutes BBC2 Ed: Paul Watson.

Qualifications

2012 PhD Cardiff JOMEC

Honours and awards

Nominated for BAFTA & Broadcast Award Best Series finalist - 'Welcome to Britain' 2001.

GRIERSON award for Best Series 'The System' 1997

BAFTA - best original idea Sarajevo: Street Under Siege 1993

Professional memberships

Member of Directors UK
Member of War and Media Association
BTEC Level 4 – professional Award: SURVIVING HOSTILE REGIONS (AKE)
Associate Fellow of HEA
Co-Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Film & Visual Culture Research

External Examiner Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Academic positions

2011 - 2012 Lecturer: Swansea University

Speaking engagements

University of Cardiff ‘The Future of Journalism’ Sept 2015

University of Reading, Disappearing War 13 April 2015

University of Udine: Filmforum festival 2015

Falmouth University; International Documentary Conference. 4-6 Sept 2014

Newcastle University: AJE Annual Conference: 21 June 2013

TMC Asser Instituut, The Hague: ‘On the Front Line of Accountability – War reportingand related contemporary issues in International Humanitarian and Criminal Law’– 21 Jan 2011

De Montfort University: Mediating Women War & Terrorism: 12 Sept 2011

University of Westminster: Global Media and the War on Terror: 13-14 Sept 2010.

South Bank University: Screens of Terror 9-11 Sept 2010

Bournemouth University: Symposium on War Reporting 2/7/2010

Shrivenham Defence College: Culture in Conflict 16/6/2010

Committees and reviewing

2013- present: Member Ethics Committee

2019

Harris, J. and Williams, K. 2019. Reporting war and conflict.. London and New York: Routledge.

2018

Allan, S. et al. eds. 2018. The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities.. Journalism Studies. London and New York: Routledge.
Harris, J. 2018. The domestic enemy in British TVdDocumentaries on the Iraq War. In: Loschnigg, M. and Sokolowska-Paryz, M. eds. The Enemy in Contemporary Film.. Culture and Conflict De Gruyter, pp. 73-91.
Harris, J. 2018. The domestic enemy in British TV documentaries on the Iraq War. In: The Enemy in Contemporary Film.. De Gruyter

2017

Harris, J. 2017. Invisible war: broadcast television documentary and Iraq. In: Purse, C. and Hellmich, L. eds. Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on cinema and erasure in the post-9/11 world.. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 149-169.

2016

Wahl-Jorgensen, K.et al. 2016. The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Journalism Studies 17(7), pp. 801-807. (10.1080/1461670X.2016.1199486)
Wahl-Jorgensen, K.et al. 2016. The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Digital Journalism 4(7), pp. 809-815. (10.1080/21670811.2016.1199469)
Wahl-Jorgensen, K.et al. 2016. Introduction: the future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. Journalism Practice 10(7), pp. 808-814. (10.1080/17512786.2016.1199485)
Harris, J., Mosdell, N. and Griffiths, J. 2016. Gender, risk and journalism. Journalism Practice 10(7), pp. 902-916. (10.1080/17512786.2016.1166449)

2015

Harris, J. 2015. Screening The Good Soldier. In: Sanders, M. and Haslam, S. eds. Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier: Centenary Essays., Vol. 14. International Ford Madox Ford Studies Brill, pp. 103-116., (10.1163/9789004299177)

2012

Harris, J. 2012. A dismal and dangerous occupation: an investigation into the discourses in the television news and documentary coverage of the British military in Iraq from 2004-2009, examining how the coverage plays out in specific genres. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

2011

Harris, J. 2011. Reporting migration - a journalist's reflection on personal experience and academic critique. In: Moore, K., Gross, B. and Threadgold, T. eds. Migrations and the Media.. Peter Lang Publishing Inc, pp. 253-268.
Harris, J. 2011. Reporting War? The Charge of the Knights. Reconstruction 11, article number: 4.

Lecturer - MAIJ - Journalistic Modes - Information Gathering and Analysis
Module Coordinator - Documentary pathway
Module Coordinator - Reporting the Middle East

Documentary, war, international journalism, journalist safety, Middle East

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