Professor Andrew Burn

  • Qualifications and position:
    • MA, PGCE, MA, PhD
    • Professor of Media Education
    • Departmental Research Tutor (London Knowledge Lab)
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy
  • Department:
    • London Knowledge Lab
  • Summary:
    • My main interests are media education and media literacy, children's popular cultures, and creative practices with new media, especially computer games and digital video.
  • Teaching:
    • MA Media, Culture and Communication
  • Research Projects:
    • Children's Playground Games in the New Media Age (AHRC), 2009-2011
      Developing Media Literacy: towards a Model of Learning Progression (ESRC) 2009-2012
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Steve Connolly: 'How do young people learn to make digital video in the secondary classroom and what is the role of popular culture within that process?'

      Angela Colvert: 'Immersive Gaming: Alternate Reality Learning: A study into the implications of Alternate Reality Gaming on Learning'.

      Grethe Mitchell: 'Intermediality and its effect on Media Literacy'.

      Kostas Voros: 'Media Education in Greek Primary School'.

      John Potter: 'Consumers, producers and curators: learner voice, agency and identity in self-representational new media production'.

      David Rawden: 'American History X-Wing'. Star Wars and its influence on and by the changing political, social and cultural landscape of the USA and its contemporaries'.

      Naomi Hamer: 'Contemporary children's literature, trans-media franchises and the literacy cultures of preadolescent girls'.

      Eirini Arnaouti: studying films in Greek secondary schools

      Martyn Richmond: a visual ethnography of food culture among 17-23 year-olds
  • Professional Activities:
    • Media Expert Group, European commission
      Editorial Board: Learning, Media & Technology
      Editorial Board: Changing English
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • 'Old Stories, New Media: narrative and game design', keynote address, Narrative in Interactive Learning Environments conference, Edinburgh, 2008
      'Playing with Monsters: why Children Need Symblic Violence in Games', keynote speech, 3rd Expert Conference, Interactive Software Federation of Europe, Brussels, 2008
      'Media Literacy: Back to the Future', keynote address, New Zealand Media Education conference, Auckland, 2007
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • French (intermediate)
  • Languages Spoken:
    • French (intermediate)
Professor Andrew Burn

Contact details

Contact details

  • Email:

  • Address:
  • London Knowledge Lab
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    23-29 Emerald Street
    London WC1H 3QS

  • Office Location:
  • Level 3
    23-29 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS

Publications

  • Burn, A. (2009) Making New Media: creative production and digital literacies. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Burn, A. and Durrant, C. (eds) (2008) Media Teaching. AATE and Wakefield Press.
  • Burn, A. and Durran, J. (2007) Media Literacy in Schools: practice, production and progression. London: Paul Chapman.
  • Carr, D., Buckingham, D., Burn, A. and Schott, G. (2006) Computer Games: text, narrative, play. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Burn, A. and Parker, D. (2003) Analysing Media Texts. London: Continuum.
  • Burn, A. (2008) 'Writing Computer Games: game-literacy and New-Old Narratives', L1 - Educational Studies in Language and Literature 8(1),
  • Burn, A. (2007) 'The Case of Rebellion: researching multimodal texts' In C. Lankshear, M. Knobel, D. Leu and J. Coiro, The Handbook of Research in New Literacies. New York: Laurence Erlbaum.