Andrew is a Professor of Media Education at the Institute of Education. He teaches on the MA in Media, Culture & Communication, supervises research students, and works on funded research projects in the field of media and young people. He is Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media.
He has published work on many aspects of the media, including media literacy in schools, the semiotics of the moving image and computer games, and young people's production of digital animation, film and computer games.
He is interested in the adaption of theories of multimodality to discribe and analyse media texts, and in how such theories relate to the Cultural Studies research tradition.
He has previously taught English, Drama and Media Studies in comprehensive schools for over twenty years. He has been a Head of English and an Assistant Principle at his last school, Parkside Community College in Cambridge, where his main role was to direct the school's media arts specialism: it was the first specialist Media Arts College in the country.
Recent publications include Making New Media: Creative production and digital literacies, Media Literacy in Schools: Practice, production and progression, Media Teaching: Language, Audience, Production, and Video-games: Text, Narrative, Play, Analysing Media Texts.
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