Margaret Gallagher

This article is about the media and gender scholar Margaret Gallagher. For the American conservative commentator, see Maggie Gallagher.
Margaret Gallagher
Born Ireland
Website [ www.globalmediapolicy.net/node/1112%20Mapping%20Global%20Media%20Policy]]
Academic background
Alma mater Western Michigan University
Thesis title The development and pilot operation of an assessment center with implications for the selection of school principals
Thesis year 1978
Academic work
Institutions Various (freelance researcher and writer)
Main interests Gender and media

Margaret Gallagher is an Irish[1] freelance researcher and writer specialising in gender and media. She has carried out research, development and evaluation projects for the United Nations Statistics Division, UNIFEM, UNESCO, the International Labour Office, the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the European Audiovisual Observatory.[2]

Gallagher sits on the editorial boards of International Communication Gazette,[3] Feminist Media Studies and,[4] Communication for Development and Social Change.[5]

Education

Gallagher gained a M.Sc. in education from the University of Dayton in 1972,[6] and her Ed.D. in 1978 from Western Michigan University.[7]

Career

Gallagher began her career, in the 1970s, researching the use of technology in education,[8] eventually becoming deputy head of the Audiovisual Media Research Group at the Open University.[9] She moved into gender and media research, including participation rates and portrayal of women in the media, in the early 1980s.[10]

In 1986 Gallagher established the European Commission's Steering Committee for Equal Opportunities in Broadcasting, which she coordinated until 1990. From 1989 to 1999 she worked on the "Prix Niki", the European Commission's biennial television prize for innovative portrayal of women and men. She has also acted as a consultant to a consortium of five European broadcasters for the development of an audiovisual training kit Screening Gender (1997-2000), and to the World Association for Christian Communication (WAAC) for the second Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) (2000).[2]

Gallagher is currently Key Expert on Media Monitoring for the European Neighbourhood Barometer project "Opinion Polling and Media Monitoring" (EuropeAid, European Commission).[11]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Margaret Gallagher". globalmediapolicy.net. Mapping Global Media Policy. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 ""SMTYEWTK (Still... More Than You Ever Wanted to Know) About Women in Journalism and Mass Communications" Research Group: Bios: Margaret Gallagher". uky.edu. University of Kentucky. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "International Communication Gazette: Editorial board". Sage. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Feminist Media Studies: Editorial board". Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  5. ↑ New global journal: Communication for Development and Social Change (promotional flyer) (PDF). Creskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press. 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  6. ↑ Gallagher, Margaret (1972). The value of play and its implications for education in the development of the whole person (M.Sc. thesis). University of Dayton. OCLC 8200672.
  7. ↑ Gallagher, Margaret (1978). The development and pilot operation of an assessment center with implications for the selection of school principals (Ed.D. thesis). Western Michigan University. OCLC 4584178. ProQuest.
  8. ↑ Gallagher, Margaret (August 1975). Broadcast evaluation report number one: analysis M231. Walton, Milton Keynes: Open University. OCLC 424965558 Pdf. (Audio-Visual Media Research Group with Faculty of Mathematics.)
  9. ↑ "Advisors: Margaret Gallagher". European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  10. ↑ Gallagher, Margaret (1980). The image reflected by mass media: stereotypes: images of women in the mass media. New York: UNESCO. OCLC 23071662 Pdf.
  11. ↑ Carter, Cynthia; Steiner, Linda; McLaughlin, Lisa (2015), "Contributors", in Carter, Cynthia; Steiner, Linda; McLaughlin, Lisa, The Routledge companion to media & gender, London New York: Routledge, p. xiv, ISBN 9781138849129. Project details.

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