John Hill joined Royal Holloway in 2004 from the University of Ulster where he was Professor of Media Studies and Head of the School of Media and Performing Arts. His PhD is from the University of York and his MA from the University of Glasgow.

Hill’s research and writing has focused on a variety of areas including film and television history, national and regional cinemas, the film industry and film policy and the politics of film. Hill is the author of Sex, Class and Realism: British Cinema 1956-63 (1986), British Cinema in the 1980s (1999), Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics (2006), Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television (2011), the co-author of  Cinema and Ireland (1987) and the co-editor of various collections including The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998). 

Professional Activities:

• Founding member of the Board of Directors, UK Film Council, 1999-2004
• Chair, Northern Ireland Film Council, 1994-7
• Member of the Board of Governors, British Film Institute, 1994-7
• Member of the Communications, Cultural and Media Studies panel for the 1996 HEFCE Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
• Chair, Working Group on the Film Industry in Europe, European Institute for the Media, 1998-2004
• Co-Director of the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar, 2003-6.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of British Film and Television and of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Cineaste, Television and New Media and Scope.