Profile:
Full name: Rosalind Coward
Area of interest: Culture and Media (esp. media representations of women); family and relationships; environmental politics
Journals/Organisation: The Guardian
Email: ros.coward@guardian.co.uk | r.coward@roehampton.ac.uk
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Website: Guardian.co / Ros Coward
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Biography:
About:
Education: Cambridge University: BA Hons, PhD CNAA
Career: Freelance journalist since the mid eighties - The Observer: regular column and features, 1992/1995; The Guardian's: Columnist, 1995- also written feature for Cosmospolitan, Daily Mail, Evening Standard and The New Statesman
Current position/role: Columnist
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Other activities: Professor of Journalism at Roehampton University since February 2006 - currently teaches undergraduate modules in Journalism and is course convener for Journalism MA (previously worked at Goldsmiths and Reading Universities and was a research fellow at City University); member of the board of Greenpeace
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Viewpoints/Insight: Roehampton University website: Me, Me, Me. The Rise and Rise of Autobiographical Journalism
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Video: Contributes regularly to both television and radio as an arts and media commentator
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Books & Debate:
- Language and materialism: developments in semiology and the theory of the subject OCLC 3692936 , 1977
- Sexuality OCLC 67603974 , 1982
- Female desires: how they are sought, bought, and packaged OCLC 11754727 , 1984
- The whole truth: the myth of alternative health OCLC 22488433 , 1989
- Sacred Cows: is feminism relevant to the new millennium? OCLC 42003331 , 1999
- Diana: the portrait OCLC 64300911 , 2005
- Mandela: The authorised portrait OCLC64390597 , with Mac Maharaj et al, 2006
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Current debate/research: Writing the Environment in Journalism (Roehampton University)
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The Guardian:
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Remit/Info: Social, family and environment issues
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Role: commentator
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Email: ros.coward@guardian.co.uk
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Website: Guardian.co / Ros Coward
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Regularity: occasional
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The Guardian:
Column name: Looking after Mother (column ended October 2008)
Remit/Info: Diary about the columnist's relationship with her elderly mother who suffers from dementia
Section: Family pages
Role: Columnist
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Email: ros.coward@guardian.co.uk
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Website: Guardian.co / Ros Coward
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Day published: Saturday
Regularity: Fortnightly
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Average length: 700 words
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- Have I done enough? - For two years I have written a column about caring for my exuberant, but increasingly dependent mother. Here, in a final instalment, I pay fond tribute to Sybil and explain why this forthright and moving chronicle has to end - 18th October 2008
- We are sitting in an office having our six-monthly visit to the bit of Mum's care that addresses her dementia - 4th October 2008
- I'm driving Mum to the seaside for the weekend - 23rd August 2008
- Mum had been told she would be staying in hospital for "about a week" while they put her on warfarin and sorted out her blood - 9th August 2008
- Appointments may be routine for the hospital, but not for the patients' relatives - 26th July 2008
- So much care of the elderly depends on women who are poorly paid and juggling complex lives - 12th July 2008
- Mum's not the only one repeating herself. I too have become a serial repeater - 28th June 2008
- Without going into details, let's just say it became rapidly evident that my mother's "case dismissed" diagnosis I described previously was premature - 14th June 2008
- I need to go to the dentist - my tooth broke some time ago - 31st May 2008
- Ros Coward, her mum and the potatoes which set off the smoke alarm - 17th May 2008
- Ros Coward takes her mum to the gastro-pub for lunch - 3rd May 2008
- My son calls. "Our ex-neighbour has just phoned," he says. "Gran has turned up at our old house." - 19th April 2008
- Mum said: "I've got a suggestion for how you could improve this place. You could give us all a glass of sherry before dinner." - 5th April 2008
- My heart is sinking. Is this going to be another frustrating encounter with NHS emergency care... - 22nd March 2008
- It's 7pm on Saturday and John and I are on our way out of London. My brother rings. He had been planning to go over to my mother's to spend the evening with her. "She's not back yet," he says. "There's probably no reason to worry, but what do you think?" - 8th March 2008
- "I was having a good laugh at these," says my mother when I pop in on my way to work. She's on the sofa, surrounded by heaps of paper, mainly fading pages from exercise books - 23rd March 2008
- "That's a nice haircut," she says, not for the first time. We're in a car travelling down to Kent and my mother has a good view from directly behind me. "Who did it for you?" I give her the details for the third time. "Sally. At the salon on Lavender Hill." - 9th February 2008
- My mobile rings. It's my mother's carer. 'Is your mum with you?' she asks. 'I've been waiting an hour.' It's drizzling, dark and 8.30pm, way past the time Mum is usually indoors. I tell the carer to go home - 26th January 2008
- How can she remember the doctor clearly but not remember a thing about going flying on our last visit? How can something so traumatic at the time and so relatively recent not register at all? - 29th December 2007
- Mum's memory for quotes is still incredible, far better than anything I could ever manage - 15th December 2007
- My niece phones to say she has found Mum in a worrying state. Mum had been stumbling and tripped over. It's possible she's broken - 17th November 2007
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