Pro Vice-Chancellor for Staff & Diversity

Professor Terry Threadgold

Terry Threadgold is Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Staff and Diversity.

She joined the University in 1999 as a Research Professor, later holding the position of Head of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies between 2003 and 2007.

Formerly head of the Department of English, Deputy Dean of Graduate Studies, Director of the Graduate School, Professor Threadgold was also Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

Before Monash she was at Sydney University where she was an undergraduate and a postgraduate student before being appointed to her first lectureship in the English Department. She was Head of the Department of early English Literature and Language within the English Department, before she left Sydney for Monash in 1993.

Professor Threadgold’s funded Australian research included work on women and ageing, and on risk, communication and injecting drug use. Both projects had a strong media element. Her book, Feminist Poetics: Poeisis, Performance, Histories, a study of race, nation and identity in Australia, remains a key text in the field of feminist cultural studies and critical discourse analysis. Her most recent book, with Justin Lewis, Nick Mosdell and Rod Brookes is Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War. Her Joseph Rowntree Report “Immigration and Inclusion in South Wales” was published in 2008.