Johanna Cornelia (Anya) Luscombe-Serlie EN
| Johanna Cornelia (Anya) Luscombe-Serlie EN | |
|---|---|
 Anya Luscombe, bron: University College Roosevelt] | |
| Geboren | ? ? 1968 |
| Beroep | Universitary teacher at University College Roosevelt, Director of Zeeuws Archief |
| VIAF | Anya Luscombe |
Nederlandse versie / Dutch version
Since 2025 Luscombe works as Director of the Zeeuws Archief.
Study
Luscombe studied Economics and Politics at the University of Durham between 1986 and 1989. In 1990-1991 she did a postgraduate in Journalism (BJTC) at Darlington College of Technology, after which she specialized in teaching English as a foreign language (2003). Since the Universiteit Utrecht started a University College in Middelburg in 2004, she works there as a teacher in Media.[1] In 2012 Luscombe was promoted to Phd. at Universiteit Utrecht after writing her disseratation entitled ‘’Sending the right mesage. Forty years of BBC Radio News’’ (1960-2000).
Career
From the nineties onward, Luscombe worked as editorial assistant at Strategic Direction Publishers in in Maidenhead (1990), as reporter and producer of radio stations at 2CR-FM, the BBC Radio Solent, BBC South Southampton and BBC Radio Newsroom (1992-1997) and as a journalist at BBC Radio Newsroom. Between 1998 and 2000 she was PR Manager at Bournemouth University and afterwards Head of External Relations. In the beginning of 2004 she started at the Goese Lyceum as Teacher Dutch for foreigners. As soon as the Roosevelt Academy (nowadays University College Roosevelt (UCR)) started in Augustus that year, she worked there as instructor, tutor and PR Advisor of the Dean of UCR. At UCR Luscombe teached ‘Rhetoric and Journalism’, where she focused on the importance of media (historical as well as contemporary) and the power and beauty of the spoken and written word. Luscombe has a fascination for the way in which Eleanor Roosevelt used radio during the Cold War.[2] In January 2025 Luscombe continued her career as Director of the Zeeuws Archief, in Middelburg where she succeeded the retired Archivist Hannie Kool-Blokland.
Selected list of publications
- ‘Radio journalists and how they describe their written copy’, in: ‘’Journal of Media Practice 10/5 (01-01-2009)
- Sending the right message. Forty years of BBC radio news (S.l. (Middelburg), s.n. (De Drvkkery), 2012). Phd. thesis Universiteit Utrecht. ISBN 978-90-7017-454-5
- Fort years of BBC radio news. From the swinging Sixties to the turbulent Noughties (New York, Peter Lang, 2013). ISBN 978-3-653027211
- 'Journalisten aan de frontlinies. Nederlandse oorlogsverslaglegging tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog’, in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 135/2-3 (2022) 261-282.
- ‘’Eleanor Roosevelt’s Views on Diplomacy and Democracy The Global Citizen’’ (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). ISBN 978-3-0304-2315-5.
Author
- Johan Francke, 2025
Notes
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