Media and Communications Senior Lecturer Dr Richard Thomas is the latest to appear in a series of wide-ranging online discussions conducted by his former tutor, Dr Darren Kelsey, who is Head of Media, Culture, Heritage at Newcastle University. They talk about former careers, Richard’s Dad, his transition into Higher Education, his work looking at growth, economic inequality, elections, alt-media, journalistic quality and the importance of finding good things as well as bad things in our research work… Students might be especially interested in seeing how an idea for an undergraduate dissertation eventually led to a PhD thesis…