Dr Alan Grossman
Director
Transductional Research and Media Practice
Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
Alan Grossman is Director of the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, and a non-executive Director of Pivotal Arts (www.pivotalarts.org), which creates and curates as Counterpoints Arts in London (counterpointsarts.org.ukHe has supervised numerous theses on the BA in Photography and Digital Imaging, DIT as well as MA theses in Journalism. Between 2008-11, he taught on a cross-institutional postgraduate course titled 'Transcultural Practice and Visual Culture(s), available to doctoral students in CTMP and the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. He was external examiner (2009-12) of the MA in Radio and Television, Centre for Media Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Research Interest
Migrant political agency,long-distance motherhood, the transnational family home, migrant representation in Irish cinema and radio; the globalization of healthcare education,globalisation, Digital photography.
Publications
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‘A Globalised Vulnerability: Re-Representing the Labouring Body of Ireland's Newly Industrialised Landscape' (Examiner: Professor Mark Durden, University of Wales, Newport). ‘Frames and Filters: Words as Keys to the Image Archive' (Examiner: Alexander Galloway, Associate Professor, New York University).
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'Pick, Pack, Sell: Producing Horticulture in 21st Century Ireland' (Advisory Supervisor), (Examiner: Professor Charalambos Kasimis, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens).
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‘Licensed to Care: The Transnational Economy of Global "Pinoy"' (Examiner: Professor Ruth Behar, University of Michigan, US). ‘Kicking the Ball: Youth, Sport and Identity in Ireland' (Examiner: Associate Professor Michael Giardina, Florida State University, US).
