Dr Heidi Colthup

Dr Heidi Colthup has been involved in the arts for over twenty years and during that time has taught in schools, colleges, and universities on subjects ranging from art history, film, media, marketing, journalism, to creating writing of all forms.

Her writing has been published in the International Journal for New Writing, the International Journal of Transmedia Literacy, Hinged Press, Synergy, as well as a variety of commercial magazines, not least of all The Farmers Weekly where she was a columnist for a number of years.

She has also worked as a freelance journalist editor, and staff writer for a variety of magazines, and has given talks on subjects such as new literacy genres, 'Gamification'. creative storytelling and video games.

Current research interests include narrative video games, the use of pronouns in science fiction, fanfiction.

A recent pilot project, the Wye Story Stones concerned embedding digital storeytelling into the real world and was a practise-based project. This is being further developed into a larger project on campus at the University of Kent.

Ongoing scholarship projects include the development of a text book on English in the Media

Teaching interests and experience are:

• Meaning and Media
• Writing for the Media
• Language in the Media
• The Language of Gaming
• Digital fiction
• Contemporary English Usage
• Professional Practise

Current teaching includes:

• Media, Gender and Sexuality
• Screenwriting
• Promotional Media
• The Branded Professional
• Introduction to Cultural and Creative Industries

• Social Media Influencers
• Women in Doctor Who
• Unreliable Narrators
• Depictions of women in advertising in wartime
• Teenage magazine problem pages
• Social Media and Journalism
• Depictions of women's football in the UK press
• Media influencers - performativity and performance
• Child Interaction with Media

Freelance Journalism

Freelance consultancy on digital presence for SME's