Alison Peirse

Horror Film

Screenwriting

Scriptwriting

Documentary Film

Creative Writing

Media Industries

Film Studies

Television Studies

I'm Lecturer in Writing for Screen and Stage in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York. I have also lectured at Lancaster, Salford, Hull, Northumbria and Leeds Beckett University. My AHRC funded PhD, awarded in 2007, was supervised by Professor Annette Kuhn at the University of Lancaster. I was awarded the PG Cert in Academic Practice and Learning by Northumbria in 2011 and was made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2013. 

My research is now in scriptwriting and story development. I have won a BBC WritersRoom/Ideas Tap competition for my script 'In My Skin', I've been selected for Channel 4's 4Talent scriptwriting strand, and have undertaken playwright training with the High Tide Festival Theatre company at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. I'm also a script consultant, working with individual writers, independent producers, industry funding bodies and production companies to develop film and television scripts.