Christa van Raalte

Christa van Raalte began her career in theatre, moved into Further Education and then Higher Education, working in a number of management positions before re-calibrating to focus more of her energies on research.

Christa is currently Associate Professor in Film and Television and Head of the CEMP (Centre for Excellence in Media Practice) research centre at Bournemouth University. Her research addresses the experience of working in the television industry, including career development, retention and the ‘leaky’ talent pipeline, management practices, workplace bullying and media education. She has published on these themes in academic journals as well as in industry-facing reports. Dr van Raalte also publishes on representations of gender and on narrative strategies in film and television texts.

Her article 'More than just a few ‘bad apples’: the need for a risk management approach to the problem of workplace bullying in the UK’s television industry', co-authored by Richard Wallis, was published earlier this year in the Creative Industries Journal.