An Analysis of Scotland’s Post-COVID Media Graduate Landscape

Dr James Mahon is a postdoctoral media scholar from Ireland. He has worked for institutions in Scotland including the University of Stirling, University of Glasgow and currently is employed at the Open University and the University of the West of Scotland, the latter where he programme led the BA in Sports Journalism/Journalism to top the NSS in Scotland and amongst the highest performing media courses in the UK. His doctoral and postdoctoral work explores digital media, mobile journalism and internationalisation in communication studies and subsequent impact for pedagogy and higher education. Mahon is currently a senior fellow of the HEA and while fulfilling the same role as a senior fellow of the John Schofield Trust. Prior to and since he joined HE has also worked extensively as a TV/Radio reporter and presenter for the last 15 years including for CBS and PBS affiliates in the US, UTV, ITV and ITN in the UK and RTE and TG4 in Ireland. Dr Mahon has more recently won more than a dozen awards as a broadcast journalist and as a documentary filmmaker and also as podcaster. He has presented his practice-based research at conferences including the Global Media Education Summit, World Journalism Education Congress and the Association for Journalism Education events across the UK and has published in both journals and book as well as penning his 2016 autobiography Through Irish Eyes.