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Dr Sian Barber

School of Arts, English and Languages
Dr Sian Barber

Dr Sian Barber

School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr Barber’s research focuses on film censorship and controversy, British cinema, Film history, audiences and archives. She is an expert on the work of the British Board of Film Classification. Publications include Censoring the 1970s: The BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot (2011), The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity (2013) and Using Film as a Source (2015). Her latest monograph is Beyond the BBFC: local and regional film censorship in the UK (2025).

Contact info

  • s.barber@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 1142

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of 

  • British film history
  • Film censorship
  • Film controversy
  • Audiences

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • QUB Access Humanities Co-ordinator
  • AEL SWAN co-champion
  • Mentor as part of QGI
  • Contributor to widening participation programmes including AHSS Junior Academy and SistersIn
  • IHR pedagogical research guide with MUP published as Using Film as a Source (2015)
  • Member of the EUscreen Foundation, a consortium of archives, academics and technical partners which explores aspects of digital heritage,
  • Member of Northern Ireland Moving Image Heritage & Archive working group.
  • Editorial Board of Journal of British Cinema and Television
  • Editorial Board of VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture.
  • Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà on Ageing network member

Research students

PhD title Dawn of the blood craze: the British horror boom and the press 1957-1962
Name Mervyn Marshall
Years of Study Awarded 2022
   
PhD title Let Us Be Seen: analysing and documenting grassroots feminism in Belfast, 2019-2021
Name Elspeth Vischer
Years of Study Awarded 2022
   
PhD title Digital cinema and the legacy of George Lucas
Name Daniel Willlis
Years of Study Awarded 2021

 


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