Dr Sarah Maltby
Undergraduate Tutor, Lecturer
Email: Sarah.Maltby.1@city.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7040 4172
Teaching
Undergraduate: Media, War and Terrorism; Interpreting News; Interpreting Documentary; Introduction to Sociology
Postgraduate: International Communication and Conflict; Political Communication; Issues in Media and Communication; Current Issues in Sociology; Research Design, Methods And Methodology.
Overview and research interests
Dr Maltby joined City University in 2008 as a lecturer in Sociology having completed her doctoral studies at the University of Surrey. Based on ethnographic work with the British military and British television broadcasters, her doctoral thesis examined the organisational and structural practices of military and media agencies in conflict scenarios to explore the degree to which the military management of information for the media potentially re-configures the conduct of contemporary conflict.
Dr Maltby's research agenda extends this focus to include wider issues related to the intersection of media and war, particularly with regard to contemporary military and media practice. This includes the tactical and strategic role of mediated information in the implementation of security provision, institutional information management in conflict, and the impact of mediated information on social behavior in conflict scenarios.
She has extensive experience in the conduct of research through contracted work with a wide range of organisations including the British military, the Metropolitan Police, the Department of Health, the probation service and a number of voluntary organisations.
She is dedicated to constructive knowledge transfer and the continual development of research relations with user communities within and beyond the academic sphere.
War and Media Network
Dr Maltby is Founder and Co-ordinator of The War and Media Network, an international and multi-disciplinary online resource and networking forum that aims to promote productive dialogue between academics and practitioners interested in the intersection between war, terrorism and the media, and currently has over 300 members worldwide. See www.warandmedia.org for more information.
The MARS Project
She is also Co-founder and Co-cordinator of The MARS Project (Morality and Representations of Suffering) which brings together a wide range of academics and practitioners, including journalists, artists, photographers, curators and filmmakers, who debate moral issues around images of suffering with particular regard to conflict. The project was founded in collaboration with colleagues from the History department at the University of Sussex, and the Philosophy department at the University of Brighton. See www.marsproject.co.uk for more information.
She is the co-editor of Communicating War: Media, Memory and Military (Arima Publishing, 2007) and author of the forthcoming Military Media Management: Negotiating the 'Front'Line. (Routledge, 2012)
Dr Maltby is also on the editorial board for the journal Media, War and Conflict launched by Sage in April 2008.
War and the Body
Dr Maltby was co-organiser of the War and the Body Conference held at the Imperial War Museum on June 11th 2010. Recognizing the growing interest in the embodiment of human life and social action across the humanities and social sciences, War and the Body Conference bought together international scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives to share a common thematic concern with the intertwining of war and the body. As such, it acknowledged the importance of the body as an increasingly productive site for rethinking and retooling the historical and sociological imaginations. The conference was organised in collaboration with Kevin McSorley and Gavin Schaffer from the University of Portsmouth. For more information visit: http://www.warandmedia.org/warandbody/
In tandem with the conference, Dr Maltby was the curator and organizer of the War and the Body Exhibition held at Blackall Studios, London in June 2010. The War and the Body exhibition explored the intertwining of war and body in the drawing, painting, photography and installation art work of 11 contemporary artists. Read more about the War and Body exhibition or join the War and Body Facebook Community.
She is currently co-editing with Dr Kevin McSorley a special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies entitled ʻWar and the Body: Cultural and Military Practicesʼ. The special issue examines the intertwining of war and culture with a specific focus upon the body. It brings together original interdisciplinary scholarship that is concerned with exploring issues of embodiment and disembodiment across diverse cultural/military practices, discourses and artefacts. These include reconnaissance photography, the DNA identification of war remains, global arms fairs, contemporary war films, NATO leaflets and radio, PTSD diagnostics, Falklands memoirs, and Soviet and post-Soviet memorial culture.
Publications
Books
Maltby, S. (forthcoming 2012) Military Media Management: Negotiating the 'Front'Line London: Routledge
Maltby, S. & Keeble, R. (ed) (2007) Communicating War: Memory, Military and Media. Bury St Edmunds, Arima Publishing.
Book chapters
Maltby, S. (2010) 'Mediating Peace? Military Radio in the Balkans and Afghanistan' in Keeble, R., Tulloch, J., Zollman, F. (eds) Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution, Peter Lang Publishing.
Maltby, S (2007) 'Communicating War: Strategies and Implications' in Maltby, S. & Keeble, R. (ed) Communicating War: Memory, Military and Media. Bury St Edmunds, Arima Publishing.
Journal articles
McSorley, K. & Maltby, S. (forthcoming 2012) War and the Body: Cultural and Military Practices. Special Issue of Journal of War and Culture Studies. Volume 5.1; autumn 2012
Maltby, S. (2007) 'Reporting War: Media Exploitation or Exploitation of the Media', Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. Vol 4, No 1/2
Farrall, S. & Maltby, S. (2003) "The Victimisation of Probationers". Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 42, pp. 32-54
Earthy, S., Maltby, S., Arber, S. and Cooper, H. (2000) 'The use of cognitive interviewing to develop questions on social capital for the 2000/1 General Household Survey', Survey Methodology Bulletin , 46, 24-31.