Jane Chapman

Jane Louise Chapman
BornMay 1950 (age 76)
Weston Super Mare
EducationUniversity College London
London School of Economics
University of Cambridge
OccupationAcademic
TitleProfessor of communications, University of Lincoln
Spouses
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(m. 1974; div. 1979)​
Martin Clarke
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(m. 1982)​
Children2

Jane Chapman (born May 1950) is a British academic, professor of communications at the University of Lincoln, a research associate and a former fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge and the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge. She is the author of twelve books and over 35 academic articles and book chapters.

Early life

Her mother was a Conservative supporter. She attended Sexey's Grammar School in Blackford, Somerset, as a boarder,, now Hugh Sexey Church of England Middle School, gaining eleven O-levels in 1966, and A-levels in 1968, Latin, and grade A in French and History.

Chapman has a bachelor's degree in history from University College London, a postgraduate certificate in education from Cambridge University, and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Career

Academic

She taught French in 1975, at Clissold Park Comprehensive School, now Stoke Newington School, when she lived in Tottenham.

She worked as a lecturer at a higher education college in the 1980s.

Since 2005 at the University of Lincoln, Chapman has gained and managed eight research grants in journalism and cultural heritage, for the British Academy, ESRC, and AHRC. She is acknowledged academically as an international pioneer in comparative method, due to her book 'Comparative Media History'.[citation needed]

Media

As the author of over 200 television films and videos, 12 academic books and over 40 articles and book chapters, Chapman's career combines equal amounts of experience in both university research and the media industry.

She was Breakfast TV's first on-screen reporter for the north of England, and ran her own independent production companies Chapman Clarke Television, Chapman Clarke films and Chapman Clarke Multi Media for 14 years, producing documentary and educational films and series for the UK's broadcasters, such as 'Women- the Way Ahead' (Open College for C4), 'Europe by Design' (BBC Education for BBC1) and 'Cider People' (HTV West).[citation needed]

In 1987 she produced the series 'Women Working it Out', with a book. It had a five part series on Channel 4 from September 21 1987. Another television series was 'Women - the Way Ahead' in 1989.

She has won awards ranging from the New York Film and TV Festival through best media history book of the year by American Universities, to best academic article of the year by Emerald Publishing, and sharing the 2017 Colby Prize for Victorian Literature (for the Routledge Handbook of 19th British Periodicals and Newspapers).[citation needed]

Chapman and her team worked with community groups both nationally and locally to enable research and commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, re-discovering hundreds of original cartoons in soldier newspapers produced from the trenches. She was an academic advisor for the BBC’s World War One at Home.

Politics

Chapman was a Haringey Borough Councillor, alongside future Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and became chairman of the housing committee.

She stood as a Labour candidate in United Kingdom general elections in the late 1970s: Dorking and Dover and Deal. She was selected for Dover in November 1975.

Personal life

She married on May 4 1974 at the local town hall. Chapman divorced from future Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in mid-December 1979.

Chapman has two adult sons. In 1982 she married the film editor/director, Martin Clarke, in north London. She moved to Pilton, Somerset in September 1998.

Selected publications

Books

Book sections

Articles

References

  1. ↑ "Staff Directory". staff.lincoln.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Sexey's Grammar School Blackford
  3. ↑ Sexey's Grammar School
  4. ↑ O-levels
  5. ↑ Central Somerset Gazette Friday 2 September 1966, page 16
  6. ↑ Central Somerset Gazette Friday 23 December 1966, page 3
  7. ↑ Central Somerset Gazette Friday 16 August 1968, page 3
  8. ↑ Cheddar Valley Gazette Friday 20 December 1968, page 3
  9. ↑ Online Services Team. "Jane Chapman · University of Lincoln Staff Directory". Staff.lincoln.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  10. ↑ Evening News Friday 28 November 1975, page 19
  11. ↑ Bristol Evening Post Thursday 11 June 1987, page 12
  12. ↑ Western Daily Press Thursday 11 June 1987, page 8
  13. ↑ Loughborough Echo Friday 24 July 1987, page 58
  14. ↑ Western Daily Press Monday 28 September 1987, page 8
  15. ↑ Bristol Evening Post Friday 1 September 1989, page 21
  16. ↑ "World War One At Home". BBC. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  17. 1 2 Whitelam, Paul (18 August 2015). "Jeremy Corbyn's first wife - now a Lincoln uni professor - says he was no great romantic". Lincolnshire Live. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  18. 1 2 "Outside Interests". Jane Chapman. 17 July 2014. Archived from the original on 19 November 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  19. ↑ Evening News Monday 17 November 1975
  20. 1 2 "Jeremy Corbyn's ex-wife: 'I donated to Yvette Cooper's campaign'". The Telegraph. 12 September 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  21. ↑ Western Daily Press Saturday 19 June 1999, page 74