Dennis Maloney – BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism UCA Epsom
Charles Lambert – BA (Hons) Journalism & Media Production UCA Farnham
Dennis Maloney leads our BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism course. Prior to taking up this role, Dennis was Senior Lecturer and Third Year Coordinator on the BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Promotion programme at UCA Rochester from 2007.
Charles has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, mainly for the BBC and ITV. As a reporter, he covered everything from murder trials to missing cats, including political rows, cultural stories and sports events at Wembley, Lords and other major stadia. In 2005, he moved from being in front of the camera to producing items for the BBC’s one and six o’clock news programmes and breakfast shows. He was also part of a team that made a documentary on hostage-taking for Sky TV.
A graduate of the University of Surrey, Dennis started his career as a freelance writer and journalist, progressing to styling, creative direction and editorial roles. He contributed to titles such as Vogue E+T (Australia), West East (Hong Kong), The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Times (online), Blueprint magazine, The Sunday Express and Toni & Guy Magazine. Senior editorial roles include TripAdvisor and GT magazine (amongst others), and he has acted as Editor-at-Large for Phoenix Magazine, Editor of GEIST Magazine and Fashionista, a publication for Graduate Fashion Week. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he’s also the co-author of ‘Fashion Promotion in Practice’, a textbook that forms part of Bloomsbury’s Required Reading Range, published in January 2016.
Charles has a degree in History from Oxford University and has always had a keen interest in teaching. He has lectured on a part-time basis at Southampton Solent University and the University of the Arts London, before becoming leader of the Sports Journalism course at the University of East London in 2012. He moved to Farnham in 2014. Charles has delivered conference papers on celebrity journalism, obituary writing and the origins of cricket.
Lucy O’Brien – BA (Hons) Music Journalism and BA (Hons) Music Marketing & Promotion UCA Epsom
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Lucy O’Brien leads our BA (Hons) Music Journalism and BA (Hons) Music Marketing & Promotion courses, and is the author of ‘She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music’. Lucy has also written ‘Madonna: Like an Icon’, plus in-depth biographies of Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox.
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Lucy has worked for the music press since the 1980s, starting on NME and contributing to a range of titles including Q, MOJO, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Lucy has acted as a consultant and guest contributor in television and radio with Channel 4 News, BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour, Radio London, and the 2002 BBC Radio 2 documentary, She Bop (based on her book). She’s also co-produced ‘Righteous Babes’, the Channel 4 film about rock and new feminism.
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‘I’m With The Band’, in Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity, ed. A. Adrian & J. Warwick (2016) ‘PJ Harvey records a new album in public’, Frieze (2015) ‘Not A Piece of Meat: Lady Gaga and that dress’, in The Gaga Collection, ed. M. Iddon and M. Marshall (2014) ‘The Enemy Within: Women and Protest Pop’, in Let’s Start A Pussy Riot, eds Flecknell, French, Neubert and Siveyer (2013) ‘Let Me Have a Taste of Your Ice Cream: Leeds post punk, feminism and the Yorkshire Ripper’, in Punk & Post Punk, Intellect Journals Vol 1 (2011)
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lucy played and sang in the all-girl punk band, The Catholic Girls.
Her specialist research areas are music subcultures and scenes, feminism and popular culture, writing and publishing biography. Academic publications include:
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