Professor Rod Pilling, Professor of Media
Dean of Faculty of Media, Arts and Society|

Professor Rod Pilling was co-opted to the Board of Governors in October 2006 and sits on the Student Liaison Committee.  

Rod joined the University as Dean of the Faculty of Media, Arts and Society in September 2005. He began his working life in newspaper journalism before going into teaching.  

Rod developed the first media degree at Birmingham City University before founding its Department of Media and Communication. He led the teams there that developed postgraduate courses in Broadcast Journalism, Media and Communication and Media Production, and was academic staff governor during its change to the University of Central England.  

In collaboration with external bodies, Rod has considerable experience in developing knowledge transfer projects. He led several major developments in the West Midlands, which culminated in the successful Screen Media Lab development in one of Birmingham's creative quarters. He chairs the regional development agency's Digital Central initiative and is a founding director of Screen West Midlands, which was established by the UK Film Council in 2000.  

Rod has written on various aspects of journalism and was on the editorial board of Journalism Studies from its inception in 2000 to 2007. He was a long-serving member of the executive of the Association of Media Production Educators.