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Becky Parry


Affiliation: Centre for the Study of Children, Youth & Media, Institute of Education, University of London & University of Sheffield
Email: b.parry@ioe.ac.uk
Homepage: Personal Site

Becky worked as a Secondary Media and English teacher and then as Education Manager at the Showroom cinema, Sheffield, where she established a range of projects including children’s film festival Showcomotion, www.showcomotion.org.uk. Becky went on to set up Cube, www.cubeweb.org.uk, a practical media production and journalism project for young people aged 14-19 in Sheffield. Becky is currently in the final year of an ESRC funded PhD, supervised by Jackie Marsh and Julia Davies at the University of Sheffield, researching the impact of children’s engagements with children’s film on their understandings of narrative.

Becky is currently a researcher on an ESRC funded project to explore media literacy and learning progression at the Institute of Education.

Articles by this Author
Moving stories: Exploring children's uses of media in their story telling and the implications for teaching about narrative in schools. Volume 9 Number 1 May 2010