Ms Maire Tracey

Biography	A Senior Lecturer in Media Practice and Programme Leader for MA Documentary Production, MA Drama Production, MA Editing Production and MA Wildlife Documentary Production; I joined the University of Salford in 2013 and have taught across undergrad and postgrad programmes. As a documentary maker, specialising, in science and history documentaries and primarily international filming, I have made documentaries with Stephen Hawking and Michio Kaku about Time Travel for Nat Geo and with Desmond Tutu for ITV . I have directed documentaries about Prehistoric America for Nat Geo, Battlefield Detectives for The History Channel and Eye of the Storm for ITV among others. I worked chiefly at Granada TV here in Salford and also at the BBC and independent TV production companies. While at Granada, I was based at The New York Times working with journalists to develop documentary ideas from news stories. Prior to the Beijing Olympics, I worked with CICC (China International Capital Corporation) and Discovery to make sports documentaries. I am School Leader for ALBERT Sustainable Production and also for the Edinburgh TV Network. For the past 3 years I have been a Judge for the Royal Television Society Awards
Research Interests	I am award-winning documentary maker. I have produced and directed more 20 films ranging from specialist factual science and history documentaries to factual entertainment docs. I have filmed extensively in China and have presented a paper about China's TV Goldrush. I recently directed and produced a documentary All that is Buried about South African creatives as part of the South African Modernism AHRC Research Project. I have also co-written a journal article about this experience entitled The Making of All That Is Buried: Dialog, Chronotope and Decoloniality.
Teaching and Learning	I teach across all L7 documentary modules; and lead four Masters level modules including Practice Based Research and Dissertation Modules. I have taught L4, L5 and L6 BA module for BA Television and Radio Production and was Module Leader for Final Project 60 credit module I have also been External Examiner at Bournemouth University and also at Liverpool University XJTLU.