Ava Bucy

Ava is a Practitioner in Media Studies and final year PhD student in the Centre for Participatory Culture at the University of Huddersfield. Her work focuses on pop music fandom, diverse girlhoods, queer media representations, feminist research, and qualitative methods. She leads the following modules:

• Fantasy, Horror, and Cult Cinema
• Video Games and Culture
• Stars and Celebrity
• Film and Media Industries
• Research Dissertation
• Analysing Content

She is an advisory board member of the Neurodivergent Humanities Network, a member of the Reactionary Politics Research Network, and is keenly interested in methodological and pedagogical research.

Ava completed her MA in Social Research at the University of Leeds in 2021, with her dissertation focusing on Constructions of Authenticity in Celebrity Magazine Profiles. Prior to this, she attended Emerson College in the United States, a leading university for the media industries, and graduated with a BA in Magazine Publishing and Sociology in 2020. She previously worked in Influencer PR, content writing, and as a celebrity stylist.

She's from Santa Monica, California, and only sometimes misses the sun.