Niki Strange / Head of Business Development
Niki is responsible for generating new business opportunities and for promoting Cogapp’s project-based and business activities to the wider world. She heads Cogapp’s business development department, managing marketing campaigns and co-ordinating the company’s participation in events, communities and networks.
Niki came to Cogapp from Wired Sussex, the digital media business development agency, where she worked as a Project Manager delivering events, training and leading trade delegations to overseas markets such as Milia/MipTV. Her background is in arts and factual independent television production, working on strands such as The South Bank Show, Omnibus and Bookmark for the BBC, Channel 4, LWT and PBS in the US.
Niki has a first class honours degree in History of Modern Art, Design and Film, an MA in Film and Television from University of Warwick and, most recently, a DPhil in Media and Cultural Studies from University of Sussex. Her doctoral thesis explored the emergence of multi-platform projects, focussing in particular on the BBC.
She has published work in 'The Television Studies Book', 'Cultural Studies: A Reader', the 'Encyclopaedia of Television' and a number of journals. She is currently co-editing an international collection on 'Television as Digital Media' with Dr James Bennett for Duke University Press in the US.
Niki has presented her research at a number of academic conferences and has organised and/or chaired large-scale digital sector industry events on subjects such as 'Contracting with the Public Sector', 'PR for Virgins' and 'Digital Technologies, Public Libraries & Archives'. In 2007 she presented on multi-platform public engagement campaigns to BBC Arts Producers as part of the BBC’s FutureNow training initiative.
A Research Fellow of University of Sussex and a founder member of the University of Sussex’s Research Centre for Material Digital Culture, she also represents Cogapp as one of twelve national members of the BBC Online External Advisory Group.
