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Steve Mardy

Senior Lecturer

Steve has worked full-time at the Northern Film School over the past 21 years. He has undertaken postgraduate research on radio features and TV documentary, at De Montfort University. At LBU, he has taught on trade and industry insight, experiential learning research, and employability consultancy on the BA programme.

At Leeds Beckett University, his current position is Senior Lecturer on the undergraduate programme of study covering Experiential Learning and Dissertation support as part of Collaborative Practice 1 and 2. He is the International Student and TURING -lead tutor at the Northern Film School on the BA in Filmmaking and had led on delivering UCAS Applications for 10 years. His research interests are in British Television Documentary since the 1950s to the present. He is also UCU REP for NFS & UCU Branch Treasurer (CC) and has been Y&H UCU Regional HE Committee Secretary since 2016 to the present.

Film work:

Richard Demarco postgraduate promotional 4x short
Films for Performing Arts, LBU website (2018)
‘To Walk in Your Shoes’ Y&H UCU Short Promotional
Film - UCU’s website. Support campaign for Migrant
Workers (2017) (Black History Month, Oct 2017)

Current Teaching

BA (Hons) Filmmaking

Research Interests

Steve has been a university lecturer at Sheffield Hallam, Leicester De Montfort and has taught full-time at the Northern Film School over the past 21 years. He has also undertaken postgraduate research into the radio features and TV documentary films of the late television producer Denis Mitchell.

This research will include examples of contemporary work at the time. Here, his research will elaborate of the richness of the research gathered between 1997-2002 and what has been made by way of documentary since.

What relevance or impact does Mitchell have today in a digital & more mobile world of factual film making practice?

(Charles Parker Prize 2023) Prizes are awarded to students for the best radio feature, honouring the BBC producer and writer who specialised in documentary radio and theatre.

Sara Parker’s current radio digital platform delivered to the BBC is a recognisable space which, in part, the early Radio features of Denis Mitchell would make suitable bedfellows. This platform space does offer a new area of discovery for a new generation of students features makers. The annual prize eponymously named after Parker’s father is quite rightly justified in modern times for those whom wish to follow the pathways that Parker opened up after World War Two in British broadcasting. The outcomes of his study will suggest that it would be highly beneficial to all studies in this area to allow the earlier work of radio producer Denis Mitchell to exist alongside the works of Parker. Both producers were employees of the BBC one at BBC Midland and the other BBC North.

Steve also has some co-correspondence with a department at Bournemouth University.