Staff Profile
Dr Nick Rush-Cooper
Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Media, Heritage and Cultural Studies and Degree Programme Director (P305 - Digital Cultures & Media)
- Email: nick.rush-cooper@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 208 3428
- Address: School of Arts and Cultures
Media, Culture, Heritage
Armstrong Building
Room 2.72
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
I am Degree Programme Director for Digital Cultures & Media (BA Hons)
I research and teach in the areas of digital cultures, taking a practice-based and theoretically informed approach to interactive digital media. I particularly focus on digital games and landscapes, drawing from ethnographic, phenomenological, feminist and practice-based approaches.
I also continue to research the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. My PhD was based in the Zone, this was an ethnographic project for which I worked as a tour guide for day-trips to the Zone.
Qualifications
PhD, University of Durham
Rush-Cooper, N. (2013) Exposures: Exploring Selves and Landscapes in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Doctoral thesis, Durham University. Available at: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/8490/
MA, University of Durham
BA(hons), University of Leeds
Postgraduate research / PhD supervision
I am keen to hear from students interested in undertaking research in the areas of digital interactive media, digital games, popular digital culture, phenomenological approaches, STS and feminist epistemologies as well as ethnographic and digital approaches to tourism.
Current supervision
Danae Peguero (with Dr Areti Galani and Prof. John Pendlebury)
Research Interests
- Digital games & interactive digital media
- Geographies of digital games
- Theories and cultures of landscape
- Phenomenology & Post-phenomenology
- Feminist theories & epistemologies
- Ethnography
- Tourism & travel in spaces of disaster.
I research digital cultures, with a focus on digital games. My work draws from phenomenological and feminist theory particularly the work of Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray and utilises ethnographic and practice-based approaches.
Chernobyl
For my PhD Exposures: Exploring Selves and Landscapes in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone I worked as a tour guide for the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for nine months.
Degree Programme Director
Digital Cultures & Media (BA Hons)
Office Hours
Semester 1 2022:
Fridays 14:00- 16:00, ARMB 2.72 (teaching weeks only)
Undergraduate
MCH1001 - Introduction to Digital Cultures - Module Leader
MCH1025 - Introduction to Scholarly Practice - Seminar Leader
Postgraduate Taught
MCH8599 - Research Dissertation (MGH) - Dissertation Supervisor
Previous Teaching
MCH2069 - Research Methods - Module Leader
MCH3073 - Media Research Dissertation - Dissertation supervisor
MCH8532 - Understanding Academic and Applied Research in Museum/Gallery/Heritage Studies
- Rush-Cooper N. Nuclear Landscape: tourism, embodiment and exposure in the Chernobyl Zone. Cultural Geographies 2020, 27(2), 217-235.
- Rush-Cooper N. Chernobyl and Stalker: ‘Splinters of the Soviet Empire’. Toxicnews.org, 2016. Available at: https://toxicnews.org/2016/05/03/chernobyl-and-stalker-splinters-of-the-soviet-empire/.