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Johanna Cornelis (Anya) Luscombe-Serlie EN

Anya Luscombe, bron: University College Roosevelt]
Geboren ? ? 1968
Beroep Universitary teacher at University College Roosevelt, Archivist of the Province of Zeeland at Zeeuws Archief
VIAF Anya Luscombe

Nederlandse versie / Dutch version

Luscombe works as Dicrector of Education and Associate Professor at University College Roosevelt and from 2025 onwards as archivist of the Province of Zeeland at Zeeuws Archief.

Study

Luscombe studied Economics and Politics at the University of Durham between 1986 and 1989. In 1990-1991 followed a postgraduate in Journalism (BJTC) at Darlington College of Technology, after which she specialized in teaching English as a foreign language (2003). Since the Universiteit Utrecht started a University College in Middelburg in 2004, she works there as a teacher in Media.[1] In 2012 Luscombe was promoted to Phd. at Universiteit Utrecht after writing her disseratation entitled ‘’Sending the right mesage. Forty years of BBC Radio News’’ (1960-2000).

Carreer

From the nineties onward, Luscombe worked as editorial assistant at Strategic Direction Publishers in in Maidenhead (1990), as reporter and producer of radio stations at 2CR-FM, the BBC Radio Solent, BBC South Southampton and BBC Radio Newsroom (1992-1997) and as a journalist at BBC Radio Newsroom. Between 1998 and 2000 she was PR Manager at Bournemouth University and afterwards Head of External Relations. In the beginning of 2004 she started at the Goese Lyceum as Teacher Dutch for foreigners. As soon as the Roosevelt Academy (nowadays University College Roosevelt (UCR)) started in Augustus that year, she worked there as instructor, tutor and PR Advisor of the Dean of UCR. At UCR Luscombe teached ‘Rhetoric and Journalism’, where she focused on the importance of media (historical as well as contemporary) and the power and beauty of the spoken and written word. Luscombe has a fascination for the way in which Eleanor Roosevelt used radio during the Cold War.[2] In January 2025 Luscombe continued her career as archivist of the Zeeuws Archief, in Middelburg where she succeeded the retired Hannie Kool-Blokland.

Selected list of publications

Author

-Johan Francke, 2023

Notes

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