TV, Radio & Podcast Production

Kate worked as a literary agent and story editor working with writers developing scripted drama for TV and Film. She then moved onto unscripted whilst at Hartswood Films, researching for documentaries and went on to interview the last surviving British POWs from Colditz.

She has mostly worked freelance as a producer and director in documentary and factual entertainment television, mainly focussed on arts and culture. As a practitioner, she has produced and directed, scripted, filmed and researched programmes for primetime BBC One and Two, Channel Four, Five, Sky One, STV and Discovery. Those shows included Animal Park, Days that Shook the World and Comedy Connections. She also produced a series of programmes for BBC4 around key social figures from the 60s including David Attenborough, Ronald Searle and Desmond Morris. She wrote scripts, managed large budgets, tight schedules and expert crew.

Kate has also undertaken freelance filmmaking commissions for various organisations including Amma Birth Companions, Police Scotland and the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.

Kate still very much enjoys being hands-on with cameras and edits. At UWS , she has worked with students to develop video content for Cop26 and BBC 5050 and liaises with a variety of local organisations to create video and social media content.

Taught subjects: Creative Research Project, TV Drama and Society, Broadcasting Concepts and Contexts, American TV and Professional Practice.

Paul has worked in broadcast television production for over twenty years, in London, San Francisco and Glasgow. As a freelance producer/director he has made over one hundred hours of television. This has included documentary, obdocs, reality tv, factual entertainment, drama-documentary, talk shows, quiz shows, features and children’s television.

Most recently he was asked to Edit Produce the first episode in the six part series 'Inside Central Station' for the new BBC Scotland channel.  In the channel's first week, this was the most watched original programme outside of the channel's opening night.  Other highlights include producing and directing a drama documentary about murderer Peter Manuel, shown on BBC Alba’s opening night. Also his own production company made the Edwyn Collins documentary Home Again that was shown on BBC Scotland, BBC4 and BBC2. It has also been shown at film festivals in Spain, Chile and Argentina.

He has a list of primetime network credits as producer, director and series producer.  Most recently he has worked as Edit Producer on the BAFTA winning Antiques Road Trip.  He has worked as a Storyline Editor on broadcast drama scripts.

Bettina worked in the Broadcast Industry for over 14 years in London and Berlin. Working as a freelancer on mainly factual programmes for major UK and US channels such as Channel 4, BBC and National Geographic, her roles included self-shooting producer and director, production manager and edit producer. She also worked on several docu dramas as the series drama producer responsible for the re-enactments.

Documentaries and series she worked on include science documentaries such as BAFTA award winning "Inside Nature's Giants" for Channel 4, "Monster Moves: Mountain Mission" for National Geographic as well as history drama docs such as "The Great Escape: The Reckoning" (Channel 4) and "America's Secret Space Heroes" for Smithsonian Channel and long running "Locked Up Abroad" series for National Geographic and Channel 5 UK.

Areas of expertise are in documentary filmmaking with the focus on science, history and docu-drama and the way the visual stories unfold. 

She is interested in feminist theories as well as representation and production culture and ethical filmmaking approaches.

Shona is an experienced educator and specialist in screen-based production at UWS. As a professional videographer, she ran her own commercial video company for over a decade before commencing lecturing full-time in 2016.

A member of the Institute of Videography, Shona has produced several high profile online campaigns for the Scottish Government and tourism industry. Other media campaigns include social inclusion and education initiatives, drug addiction, combating antisocial behaviour and highlighting homelessness. Shona has undertaken freelance editing commissions for various media outlets including the BBC and is Avid certified and Final Cut Pro accredited.

With a passion for community and arts collaboration Shona is responsible for the Studio Lab initiative. Studio Lab is a collaborative, cross-discipline enterprise where students are trained in a variety of technical and creative aspects of studio production. Studio Lab has created successful links with both local and international partners including Centennial College in Toronto, Ayr United Football team and Ayrshire Addiction Services along with internal partnerships with the School of Engineering and the School of Nursing as part of two high profile online campaigns.

Shona is a Fellow of the HEA and a doctoral researcher. Academic areas of interest include the implementation of AR into teaching practice.

Taught subjects: MA Television Journalism, Studio Production, Introduction to Television and Television Production: Skills Development.

As a Presenter and Broadcast Journalist his work includes Television and Radio presenting credits for BBC Television, MTV, Scottish Television, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 1/Radio 2, BBC Asian Network, Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 and Children In Need.

Ravi also specialises in areas of digital streaming cross social media platforms, including hosting and producing a Health and Fitness series for digital content stream platform ‘BBC The Social’ and enjoys sharing his experiences through teaching multiplatform content delivery.

Dan Twist is a BAFTA Scotland and RTS Scotland award-winning TV Producer with over twenty years experiencing working in the British TV and media sector. Dan has worked in TV development production for Factual, Features, and Entertainment series. Recently, Dan was the Producer for Channel 4 documentary film, Billionaire Blooms at Christmas.

In 2019, Dan became a Channel Executive at Channel 4 in the Nations and Regions department. Where he supported the independent TV production companies in building relationships with the channel, he also nurtured diverse talent and supported production companies’ growth fund grant applications. Dan joined the lecturing staff part-time in 2021, where he continues to blend working in the industry with lecturing and academic research.

Dan's research interest is in media production cultures, factual formats development and Multiplatform. He teaches modules Production for Multiplatform and American TV. 

Chris Gilgallon is a longstanding member of the team specialising in radio and situation comedy. He has worked in radio comedy as a writer and has also worked as a photographer undertaking commercial briefs. He has a background in community arts having managed government funded projects in Ayrshire.

He has an interest in using a combination of still images and soundscapes as a form of narrative.

Chris is also manager of UWS Radio, the university's radio station which is based on the Ayr campus.

Graham Jeffery is Professor in Arts and Media Practice and Director of the Protracted Crisis Research Centre at UWS. His work spans participatory and community arts and media practices, creative learning, cultural policy and urban and community development.

He is currently leading a three-year British Academy funded project: Waste, Water and Wellbeing: lessons from the interface of formal/informal urban systems in Dharavi, Mumbai. His work in in the creative media sector includes music and sound for award-winning short films, and exhibitions, performances and events that act as public platforms for debating key issues in urban development, social justice and sustainability.

Graham has also worked as a teacher, composer and facilitator in a wide range of contexts, including with London International Festival of Theatre, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and East London Dance, as well as in policy advice and consultancy for Creative Scotland and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.  He has led numerous action research projects with diverse communities in different places around the world. He keeps a blog at www.generalpraxis.org.uk.

You will be introduced to the theory and practice of TV, film, podcasting and radio production, and script-writing.

You will begin to focus on your chosen specialisms, developing technical and creative skills in areas such as radio, podcasting, broadcast drama, documentary, and creative writing.

You will choose to specialise in one of two major strands: television production or radio production. You will also enhance your research skills ahead of your final year research project.

You will study genres of particular interest, focusing in particular on creative and research projects that bring together all of the skills and concepts you’ve learned throughout the course.

A range of teaching and learning methodologies are used within the degree. This includes lectures, seminars, workshops, group work, enquiry-based learning and student-centred learning. In the latter case, the emphasis is on independent work by students that is coordinated and guided by tutors. BPTVR students are as likely to be taught in TV and Radio studios as in lecture theatres. As students progress the level of autonomous work increases culminating in the final year project where students carry out their own individual project – linking the creative and theoretical - with supervisory guidance.