Mandy is a researcher on the ESRC funded project: Developing Media Literacy: Towards A Model Of Learning Progression (RES-062-23-1292).

Before joining the Institute of Education in London, she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Stirling in Scotland.† There she taught in the Education and Film, Media and Journalism Departments and completed a PhD in the socio-political origins and development of media education in Scotland.† She also taught media and cultural policy in the Theatre, Film and Television Department at the University of Glasgow.

Her research interests include: the social, political and cultural contexts constituting relations between media and education institutions in the UK; the historiography of media in education; media, education and learning; curriculum change and teacher identity; media culture and national identity.

Burn, A, Buckingham, D, Parry, B & Powell, M (2010) Minding the Gaps: Teachers' Cultures, Students' Cultures in Alvermann, Donna E.(ed)†

Adolescents' Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media and Popular Culture, Oxford: Peter Lang

Rodrigues, S, Airnes, J & Powell, M (2005) Ideas for Using elevision Fiction in Science Classrooms, Edinburgh Wellcome Trust

Powell, M (2005) Media Studies in Scotland: The End of History? in The Media Education Journal, Issue 37, Spring 2005, pp3-6

Powell, M (2003) Media Education: The Bigger Picture in The media Education Journal, Issue 33, Spring 2003, pp31-34

Powell, M (2002) Whatever Happened to Media Education? in Education in the North, 10, pp62-68

Conferences

Buckingham, D, Burn, A, Parry, B & Powell, M (2010) Developing Media Literacy: Towards a Model of Learning Progression: Media Literacy Conference, QE2 Conference Centre, London

Powell, M (2010) Developing Media Literacy: Towards a Model of Progression: National Association For the Teaching of English (NATE) Conference, Leicestershire

Powell, M (2005) Desperately Seeking Citizenship: paper given by invitation to a colloquium on citizenship and organised by the Applied Educational Research Scheme at the University of Strathclyde

Powell, M (2004) Media Education in Scotland: paper given at the History of Education Conference, Trinity College, Dublin

Powell, M (2002) Whatever Happened to Media Education? in Education in the North, 10, pp62-6†