Advisory board

Prof Hjort is Dean of Arts at HKBU and a prominent and distinguished scholar.  Her research spans the fields of literary studies, theatre studies, philosophy and film and media studies. Much of her research has focused on the cinema of small nations, with a special emphasis on practitioner’s agency, creativity under constraint, and artistic projects as alternatives or complements to cultural policy, gift culture, and milieu-building.

Dr Toft Hansen’s research deals with Danish and Scandinavian cinema and TV-drama. He was one of the investigators on the FKK-funded research project “What Makes Danish TV Series Travel?” (2014-2018).  His project focused on TV drama as well as location studies, policy studies, and production studies of Danish/Scandinavian TV-drama (especially Nordic Noir). His general interests are Danish and Scandinavian media policies, Danish genre cinema, Danish war drama, and the relationship between policies and aesthetics.

Prof Raats is at the Department of Communication Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels.  He is senior researcher at imec-SMIT-VUB (Studies on Media, Innovation and Technology). His research interests are at the crossroads between audiovisual policy and broadcasting management. Prof Raats specializes in public broadcasting themes, partnerships and the financing and support of TV fiction in small media markets.

Dr Ramsey is Lecturer in the School of Communication and Media, and a member of the Centre for Media Research at Ulster University. He returned to Ulster in August 2016 having previously been Assistant Professor in Digital and Creative Media at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China (2012–2016). Dr Ramsey’s research focuses mainly on media policy and public service media in the UK, with a specific focus on the work of the BBC. Other strands of his research have dealt with cultural policy in the UK, the relationship between media and democracy, and critical approaches to political public relations.

Prof Schlesinger works on digital culture and the transformation of the public sphere, with particular reference to nations, states, and collective identities. He was appointed as the University of Glasgow’s inaugural Chair in Cultural Policy and directed the Centre Cultural Policy Research from January 2007 – 2013.  He is a Deputy Director of CREATe, the RCUK’s Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative economy, which is led by the University of Glasgow. He was previously on the boards of the moving image agency, Scottish Screen, and of TRC Media, the creative content training body.  He was also Chairman of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Scotland and was adviser to The Scottish Parliament’s Scotland Bill Committee on broadcasting.

Dr Sorensen is Lecturer in Media Policy. She has a PhD from University of Copenhagen and joined the Centre for Cultural Policy Research as a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Digital Economy & Culture. Before her PhD Dr Sorensen worked for a decade as an award-winning producer of documentaries and factual programmes for BBC, Channel 4, STV, Five and National Geographic. She is a member of the Steering Group for Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Days, the European Documentary Network’s task force as well as a Scottish Screen (now Creative Scotland) accredited Lead Practitioner in Moving Image Education.