Awards

• (2006) National Teaching Fellow.
• (2006) Associate of the Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Assessment for Learning. Northumbria University. For the project Texts in Cultural Context: Looking at Children's Books in Relation to Professional and Personal Spaces and Ideologies.
• (2005) Joint Applauding & Promoting Teaching award, Northumbria University, with Dr. Rosie White, for the project Posters as a Pedagogic Tool
• (2003) Joint Applauding & Promoting Teaching award, Northumbria University, with Professor Kay Sambell, for Speaking up and speaking out: exploring the value of Enquiry Based Learning approaches in non-vocational subjects.
• (2002) Joint Applauding & Promoting Teaching award, Northumbria University, with Professor Kay Sambell, for The Virtual Visiting project: developing students' analytical skills in fieldwork.
• Mel Gibson Ph.D. (2002) University of Sunderland, Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics and Post-war Constructions of British Girlhood.
• (2000) The Inge Award for Comics Scholarship, from the Popular Culture Association of America for the paper 'Invisible Girls' given in April 2000 at the Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans.
• Mel Gibson M.A. (1996) University of Sunderland, Cultural and Textual Theory. Thesis: Wonder Women and Invisible Girls. Female lead characters and feminism in American mainstream superhero comics of the 1970s and 1980s.
• Mel Gibson BA (Hons), (1993) University of Northumbria at Newcastle, History of Modern Art, Design and Film, First class
• Mel Gibson BLib (Hons), (1984) University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Librarianship and Classical Studies, II:ii

Editorial Roles

• Part of the editorial team on the Journal of Popular Culture
• Part of the editorial team on Children's Literature in Education
• On the Consultative Committee for the periodical Popular Narrative Media
• As well as having an editorial role on MEDAL