Staff
The staff listed immediately below are those most directly involved in teaching or running the courses involving the Granada Centre and/or Visual Anthropology. But both at the MA level and particularly at doctoral level, students are also very likely to have contact with the colleagues listed on the Department of Social Anthropology main website.
Teaching Staff
Professor Paul Henley - Director, Granada Centre (PhD Cambridge 1979)
Tel: 0161 275 4002
Email: paul.henley@manchester.ac.uk
After carrying out doctoral research in Venezuelan Amazonia, trained for three years at the National Film and Television School. Principal research interests concern indigenous communities of lowland South America, but has also made films in Hispanic Caribbean and Britain for both specialist and more general television audiences.
Paul's staff profile | Paul's Granada Centre page
Dr Rupert Cox - Lecturer in Visual Anthropology (PhD Edinburgh 1998)
Tel: 0161 275 0570
Email: rupert.cox@manchester.ac.uk
Regional specialisations: Asceticism and the traditional arts in Japan; visual history of mutual perceptions of Japan and Europe following the first contacts in the sixteenth century; history and culture of Orientalist automata.
Theoretical specialisations: Visual History of Anthropology, History and Memory, Museums and heritage displays.
Rupert's staff profile | Rupert's Granada Centre page
Andrew Lawrence
Tel: 0161 275 3994
Email: andy.lawrence@manchester.ac.uk
(Lecturer in Visual Anthropology, 2007; MA Visual Anthropology, Manchester 1997)
Independent film-maker making drama and documentary films for broadcast and festival release.
Andy at AllRitesReversed | Andy's Granada Centre page
Dr Andrew Irving
Tel: 0161 275 2518
Email: andrew.irving@manchester.ac.uk
(Lecturer, PhD School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1999)
Regional specialisation: Kampala, Uganda and New York, USA. Topical focus on experiences of illness, death and dying (especially from HIV/AIDS), in relation to the aesthetic appreciation of time, existence, and otherness; also phenomenology, art, performance and creativity, time, comparisons of personhood, religious change, gender and urban experiences.
Andrew's staff profile | Andrew's Granada Centre page
Dr Angela Torresan
Tel: 0161 275 2518
Email: angela.torresan@manchester.ac.uk
Regional specialisation: Brazil and Portugal; topical interests include transnational migration, ethnicity, national identity, racialisation, middle class, visual anthropology.
Professor (Emeritus) Richard Werbner
Email: richard.werbner@manchester.ac.uk
(Professor Emeritus of African Anthropology; PhD Manchester 1968).
Regional specialisation in South-Central Africa, fieldwork among the Kalanga (Zimbabwe and Botswana) and Tswapong (Botswana)
Topical interests include ritual, personal and historical narrative, politics, law, regional analysis.
Associate Lecturer
Leslie Woodhead - Honorary Lecturer (MA Cambridge 1964).
Now-independent director who worked for Granada Television for many years. Directed nine Disappearing World films whilst also producing acclaimed drama-documentaries on Eastern Europe. His most recent television work includes Milosevic- Slobo’s Way about the Serbian leader, and Fire Will Eat Us, about the Ethiopian pastoralist people, the Mursi, made in collaboration with the anthropologist David Turton. Together with Marilyn Strathern, former head of the Department, Leslie and David were responsible for the creation of the Granada Centre in 1987.
Administrative Staff
Vickie Roche
PGT (Diploma/Masters) Programme Administrator
Email: Vickie.Roche@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 275 2501
Marie Waite
PGR (PHD/MPhil) Programme Administrator
Email : Marie.Waite@manchester.ac.uk
Tel : 0161 275 4869
Vicky Barnes
PGR Admisssion enquiries
Email: Vicky.Barnes@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 275 4743
Janet Smith
PGT Admission enquiries
Email: pg-soss@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 275 4471
Technical Staff
Bill Brown - Audio-Visual Technician, Granada Centre.
Tel: 0161 275 3987
Email: william.j.brown@manchester.ac.uk
David Henderson - Audio-Visual Technician, Media Centre
Advice and training both in off-line and on-line editing techniques. Specialist in post-production sound-mixing, working on all student Final Projects.
John Lancaster - Audio-Visual Technician, Media Centre
Specialist in audi editing, provides training in operation of off-line edit suites and editorial practise generally, as well as operating the on-line and AVID suites for students' final projects.