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Carrie Dunn is a journalist and academic who has been combining research, teaching and professional practice since 2005.
She has taught all around the UK, delivering modules on cultural studies, media, and sociology. Her research interests include fandom, sport, feminism and the consumption of popular culture, and her PhD examined the experience of the female football supporter in the English professional game.
As a journalist she divides her time between writing about sport and writing about popular culture, for publications including the Times and the Guardian. She has covered events from the Olympics to the Ashes – and her most recent book, ‘Spandex, Screw Jobs and Cheap Pops’ is about professional wrestling in Britain.
She is the fiction editor for leading feminist website The F Word, and is the UK editor-in-chief of musical theatre news site BroadwayWorld.
When she's not at work, you'll most likely see her at any kind of sporting event, karaoke, the theatre, or looking after her nephew.
I work across two jobs that I absolutely love! I enjoy sharing my own skills and knowledge, and preparing students for the world of work as well as encouraging a love of learning. Seeing students develop into graduates ready to enter their first job (not necessarily in journalism, but in a field they’ve chosen according to their own interests and abilities) is a very rewarding process.
Don’t get it good, get it written. Procrastination is the journalist's enemy. This is something I tell novice journalism students all the time – don’t worry about getting your piece perfect first time, you can always edit it and make changes; that is, if you’ve got something on the paper to make changes to. As an editor, I’d rather have an average piece filed on time than an amazing piece that trickles in a fortnight after we’ve gone to press…
My teaching philosophy has four strands: reflection (for all of us – looking back not only on what has been learnt, but how it was learnt and one's feelings about it); constructive alignment (appropriate activities for the material); community (developing a supportive, discursive peer environment); and rules (spelling, grammar, punctuality and deadlines are all very important to me – partly as a matter of respect, and partly because this is of course crucial for journalism). I want us all to work towards creating an enjoyable and effective learning and teaching environment.
PhD, Sheffield Hallam University: ‘The Experience Of Female Football Fans In The English Game: A Qualitative Study’: supervisors Prof Dave Waddington and Dr Kathy Doherty; examiners Prof John Hughson and Dr Rinella Cere – awarded November 2012
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, confirmed September 2013
PGCertHE (by distance learning), University of Wales, Newport - awarded 2012
MA English, King’s College London - awarded 2003
BA (Hons) English Language and Literature, King’s College London - awarded 2002
Associate of King’s College - awarded with distinction and winner of the First Leathes Prize 2002
Co-route leader, BSc Digital Media and Communications
Organising conference on sport, gender and education with Dr Amy Godoy-Pressland of the University of East Anglia, September 2014
CS. Dunn (2014). Female Football Fans: Community, Identity and Sexism. Palgrave.
C. Dunn (2014). The Experience of Female Football Fans in England: Conducting One-to-One Interviews and the Reliability of Memory. SAGE Cases in Methodology.
CS. Dunn (2012). 'The gendered significance of community to female football fans'. In: Football and Its Communities.
CS. Dunn (2010). ‘No Consent Necessary: A Feminist Perspective on Non-Consensual Penetration in Torchwood’. In: Illuminating Torchwood: Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series.
CS. Dunn (2010). ‘The Alien Woman: Othering and the Oriental in Torchwood’. In: Illuminating Torchwood: Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series.
Dunn, C and Hynes, D, ‘Community, authenticity and sexism: the online and offline experience of female football fans’, Fan Studies Network, University of East Anglia, Norwich, November 2013
Dunn, C, 'Promoting fandom: the perception of female fans' practices in men's football by clubs and authorities', Football Association 150th anniversary conference, Manchester, September 2013
Dunn, C, 'The challenges of conducting qualitative research into the experience of female football fans', European Sociological Association, Turin, August 2013
Dunn, C, 'Gender, pleasure, and the look: female fans and men's soccer', London Film and Media Conference, June 2013
Dunn, C, 'Female fans' experience of the significance of the supporters' trust movement in England', Women's Football: Played, Watched, Talked About, University of Copenhagen, June 2013
Dunn, C, 'Female fans’ experience of the significance of the supporters’ trust movement', ISSA World Congress of the Sociology of Sport, Vancouver, June 2013
Dunn, C, 'An overview and discussion of the practices and behaviours of female football fans', Inter-Disciplinary.net, Global Research Project on Fan Communities and Fandom Conference, Oxford, March 2013
Dunn, C, 'The female football fan’s perception of and relationship to fellow fans', ISSA World Congress of the Sociology of Sport, Glasgow Caledonian University, July 2012
Dunn, C, 'The gendered experience of community through the supporters' trust movement', Football and the Community, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2012
Dunn, C, 'Female football fans and their perception of the gendered nature of football media', Sport, Gender and Media, University of York, March 2012
Dunn, C, ‘The future of females in football in the UK', Centers and Peripheries in Sport, Malmö, April 2010
Dunn, C, ‘The female fan’s relationship with her father’, BSA Postgraduate Forum, August 2008
Dunn, C, ‘The gendered significance of community for female football fans’, BSA Postgraduate Forum, August 2007
Dunn, C, ‘Discovering the hidden, not at home: the history of female fandom’, British Society of Sports History, September 2006
Book reviews, Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Media Practice; Annals of Leisure Research; Sport in History
Editorial reviewer and advisor, Routledge
Editorial board, Network, British Sociological Association
Part of MMU's Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities
Regular pundit on BBC radio
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Member, National Union of Journalists
Member, British Sociological Association