Dr Janet Harris
PhD (Cardiff)
Senior Lecturer
- harrisj14@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44(0)29 208 76279
- Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS
Overview
Highly experienced versatile producer/director in documentaries and factual television having worked at the BBC and freelance for many years, with credits on BAFTA and Grierson award winning series. Course leader in MA Digital Documentaries with experience of teaching and developing modules in international journalism and on practical and academic media courses.
Biography
Career Overview
2103 - present: Senior 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
Publications
2021
- Harris, J. and Taylor, J. 2021. Narrative in VR journalism: research into practice. Media Practice and Education 22(3), pp. 211-224. (10.1080/25741136.2021.1904615)
2018
- Allan, S. et al. eds. 2018. The future of journalism: risks, threats and opportunities. 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: Löschnigg, M. and Sokołowska-Paryż, M. eds. The Enemy in Contemporary Film. Culture & Conflict Vol. 12. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 73-90., (10.1515/9783110591217-005)
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
- Harris, J. and Williams, K. 2017. Reporting war and conflict. London and New York: Routledge.
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. Introduction: 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.
Teaching
- Course Leader - MA in Digital Documentaries
- Lecturer - MAIJ - Journalistic Modes - Information Gathering and Analysis
- Module Coordinator - Documentary pathway
Documentary, war, international journalism, journalist safety,
