Dr Andrew McWhirter
Senior Lecturer, Media and Communications
Department of Media and Journalism
Dr McWhirter joined GCU as a full-time member of the Media and Journalism department in 2014, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2018.
He has industry experience working as an arts journalist and as a copywriter in advertising.
He has published on a variety of subjects, from video games to audiovisual pedagogies.
He is the author of Film Criticism and Digital Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2016) and is working on his second monograph Learning, Teaching and Social Media: A Generational Approach (Routledge, forthcoming). He has contributed to Kääpä and Vaughan’s edited collection Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis (Springer, 2022).
Andrew’s current research interests draw from his teaching on sustainable media over the past decade. He has taught on ecocriticism, and sustainability in the (digital) media industries.
He is a founding member of the BAFTA-chaired albert in Education Partnership and delivers the ‘Applied Skills for a Sustainable Media Industry’ training at GCU. He supervises across new PhD pathways that seek to embed the UNSDGs into TV drama.