Professor Greg Singh

Professor

Communications, Media and Culture University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Greg Singh

About me

I have taught and conducted research at a number of institutions in various capacities across the UK for over two decades. I started at Stirling in 2013, as a Lecturer in Media and Communications, and I am now Professor of Media and Society, based in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. I have held the position of Deputy Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Research, in the Faculty, and I am currently Programme Director for Digital Media, leading all undergraduate provision in the subject area across our programmes based at the University of Stirling, as well as partnership programmes with Singapore Institute of Management, and Chengdu University Stirling College (China).

I teach in the fields of media and cultural studies, film studies, and digital media. Specific modules include Screening Science Fiction; Digital Media & Culture; Media Futures; and Applied Digital Media. As may be evident from this, my experience covers a wide remit of subjects and reflects an interdisciplinary interest in the study of cultural production and consumption in general.

More specifically, my role within the Faculty has been, and continues to be, to strengthen the links between the various disciplinary fields, to support interdisciplinary research culture, and to develop collaborative links between colleagues researching in different fields across the University.

As a long-standing author and reviewer for the Routledge Mental Health imprint, I have developed research interests in mental health and wellbeing in media and communications contexts. These have mostly looked at the relationships between people and technologies, but in my recent turn to environmental humanities subject matter, I have developed projects that investigate the relationships between media, mental health, and the natural world. I have published in a number of related fields, including a monograph on depth psychology and film theory ((Film After Jung: Post-Jungian Approaches to Film Theory (Hove: Routledge, 2009)) and another on the emotional work of cinema (Feeling Film: Affect and Authenticity in Popular Cinema (Hove: Routledge, 2014). More recently I published The Death of Web 2.0: Ethics, Connectivity and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century (Hove: Routledge, 2019). I am also currently finishing a short-form monograph for Routledge In Focus, on the Netflix drama, Black Mirror.

I was Co-Director of the RSE Research Network, Life in Data 2017-2019. I was PI on the EPSRC-funded project Data Commons Scotland 2019-2022 (EP/S027521/1), and I was Co-I on the Leverhulme-funded project Waste Stories (2021-2024) led by Anna Wilson at University of Glasgow School of Education.

This recent turn in my research activity led to an interest in ecocritical studies. This includes both representations of, and applied social research in, permaculture, STS and the ecology of affordance, waste and reuse, solastalgia, and the Anthropocene; as well as the links between climate change, social technology, and mental health. I am currently developing work examining Slow Television and the salutogenic benefits of greenspace on screen.

I welcome ideas for potential doctoral projects in any of these areas.