Wendy Burke
Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Production
PhD in Film and Cultural Studies. BA (Hons) Drama, Theatre
& Television Studies
Wendy Burke studied Drama, Theatre and Television Studies at
Winchester before working for fourteen years in television and
video production as a producer, director and researcher of
broadcast and non-broadcast programmes. Productions include
military history documentary series 'Gallipoli 1915' and 'The Somme
1916', current affairs programmes, television commercials, sports
documentaries and event coverage, educational, training and
corporate films and two fifteen-part series of the makeover show
‘Gardening Angels’. Broadcasters were: ITV, Channel 4, BBC1,
BBC2 and UKTV Style, and independent production companies in the
North-East and Yorkshire.
Wendy gained her Doctorate in Film and Cultural Studies from
King's College London for her research into the cultural legacy of
World War Two in the Netherlands revealed in Dutch war films from
the 1960s to the 1980s. Her research interests embrace film
and television from an interdisciplinary perspective and include
film and history, cultural identity, film theory, documentary
production and history and the sociology of representation.
Wendy currently teaches theory and practice within documentary
production on the BA (Hons) Film and Television Production and
teaches on the MA Documentary Production