Emerita Professor Máire Messenger Davies

Máire Messenger Davies is Emerita Professor of Media Studies at Ulster University, and a Visiting Professor at the University of South Wales. She has a BA in English from Trinity College Dublin and, after a journalistic career in local newspapers and national magazines, she obtained a PhD in psychology at the University of East London, studying how audiences learn from television.

She has worked at Boston University and at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA, and later, in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, at Cardiff University. She specializes in the study of child media audiences, and is the author of several books including 'Children, Media and Culture' (McGraw Hill/Open University, 2010); 'Dear BBC: Children, Television Storytelling and the Public Sphere' (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 'Television is Good for Your Kids' (Hilary Shipman, (1989, 2002) and, with Roberta Pearson, 'Star Trek and American Television' (University of California Press, 2014.)