Rob Sharp Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

On a research and teaching contract. Member of Media, Journalism and Cultural Studies group in School of Media, Arts and Humanities. Convening and teaching courses on undergraduate and postgraduate Media and Journalism degrees. Widening participation/access to Higher Education workshops with local schools & colleges. Member of Stuart Hall Fellowship.

Deputy Head for Curriculum in the subject group Media, Cultural Studies and Journalism.

0.2 rising to 0.4; then 0.6. I worked part-time at Sussex alongside teaching at other universities, freelancing and completing my PGCert and PhD.

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Berlin, Germany

Introduction to Quantitative Methodology (workshops, MA Media & Communications)Identity, Transnationalism & the Media (creative workshops, MA Media & Communications)International Journalism & Society (LSE Summer School)Manager, Polis (interim cover) http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/polisLSE Sprint Programme (Widening Participation)

Berlin, Germany

I write and have written freelance/contracted news, features and interviews for a variety of publications. Since 2012: The New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, frieze, ArtReview, Channel 4, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard, Esquire, Smithsonian, Museums Journal, The Art Newspaper, The White.

Strategy, news, features, op-eds and marketing copy for Amnesty International, WWF, King's College London, HOME Manchester, British Council, Southbank Centre, Christie's, Soho House Group, Hearst Magazines UK, London Open House, Tresor Berlin

Workshops, lectures, seminars to undergraduate and postgraduate students (teaching up to nine hrs/week)e.g. 2018/2019 Creative Storytelling (BA Journalism); MA Arts & Lifestyle Journalism; Journalism Project

Contracted writer reporting in UK/Europe; split time between Artsy and working for the Museums Association as monthly contributor.

Taught part-time while completing an MA in Creative Writing.

Staff writer for Artinfo in UK/Europe; monthly contributor to Modern Painters (e.g. roundup column; reviews).

• Investigative research for Channel 4 Dispatches, "Chinese Murder Mystery"
• Initiated High Court hearing to source documents, extensive work at Companies House and Land Registry.
• Also conducted investigative research for a New York Times journalist on a publishing project.

Research/consultancy part-time after leaving the Independent voluntarily to switch career direction.

• Arts correspondent for daily national newspaper.
• Reporting on national and international arts events and institutions, regularly interviewing many of their directors, along with leading figures in the arts.
• Regularly broke stories widely followed by other publications including New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Telegraph.
• Also worked as general news reporter

• Broke exclusives and wrote high output of features and interviews widely across three national newspapers: the Independent (selling 200K+), the Independent on Sunday, and the i.
• Wrote fast turnaround copy from news splashes and page leads to cover features.
• Wrote and reported from Cambodia, Cuba, Morocco, California.
• Nominated, 4Talent Award (journalism)

• News shifts, freelance diarist and selling in exclusives to the Times, Evening Standard, Independent on Sunday, and Sunday Telegraph
• Editor and writer on books desk for The Art Newspaper on sabbatical cover;
• Intern at Demos
• Researcher/assistant producer for October Films involving investigative research, extensive FOI and database work for documentary screened as part of the Channel 4 Dispatches strand

• Broke culture stories for weekly national newspaper The Observer on a maternity cover contract as part of specialist print news team.
• Followed by Daily Telegraph, The Independent
• Also worked as general and foreign news and features reporter, generating exclusives
• Nominated, Young Journalist of the Year, British Press Awards.

• Extensive off-diary news and features writing for weekly industry newspaper, selling in news and features to national newspapers including Guardian (page three lead), the Independent
• Stories followed by Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Evening Standard.
• Interviewed leading architects including Frank Gehry, Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid
• Also worked as a diarist for the Independent & Evening Standard.
• Won IBP Young Journalist of the Year

• Features reporter for weekly industry title, reporting features in UK and across Europe.
• Pieces included rare interview with Duke of Westminster and reporting on reconstruction in Sarajevo and post-Olympic infrastructure in Athens
• Nominated, PPA Awards

Wrote and edited at Reed Business Information on specialist newswire while I studied NCTJ evenings & weekends.

Wrote and edited for a Time Out franchise in the Middle East. Edited sections on film and music.

• I started my career writing freelance TV reviews for Time Out London.
• Interned at Time Out New York, the Village Voice, and XM Satellite Radio
• Freelanced/edited student supplement for Daily Telegraph. *Summer programme, KPMG

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Media & Communications, Minor Corrections

My research considers the promise of voice and recognition as well as performative refugeeness through creative mediation at two community.

Pgcert, Academic Practice In Art, Design & Communication

Ma, Creative Writing, Distinction

Mphil, Architecture & The Moving Image (Now Film & Screen Studies), Merit

Activities and Societies: Editor, Varsity (student newspaper)

Ba Natural Sciences, 1/2.1/2.1

Activities and Societies: JCR events officer Selwyn College, arts editor & film editor, Varsity (student newspaper); student TV & film.

Education record