Journal Articles

• Terkanian, K., 2022. From women operators to technical assistants: women in the BBC’s wartime engineering division. Women's History Review, 31 (4), 580-602.
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• Baker, J., Mendes, K. and Terkanian, K., 2021. Labour, media and technology: editors' introduction. WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW.
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• Terkanian, K. and Chignell, H., 2020. Nesta Pain: The Entangled Media Producer. Media History, 26 (1), 20-33.
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Books

• Terkanian, K., 2025. The BBC and Gendered Labour: How Wartime Restrictions Reshaped the Corporation, 1939-45. Bloomsbury Academic.
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Chapters

• Cosson, F. and Terkanian, K., 2023. The Graduate Project: A Model for Embedded Employability in Arts and Humanities Undergraduate Education. In: Broadley, T., Cai, Y., Firth, M., Hunt, E. and Neugebauer, J., eds. Handbook of Graduate Employability. SAGE.
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Reports

• Yates, C., Terkanian, K. and Foster, N., 2021. Collating existing data on communities and cultural institutions on the south coast (Hampshire and Dorset).. Bournemouth University project: none, an internal publication.
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Internet Publications

• Terkanian, K., 2022. A Local Institution Quietly Closes. Dorset History Centre Blog. Available from: https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/dorset-history-centre-blog/2022/10/21/a-local-institution-quietly-closes/.
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• Terkanian, K.. Online Public Lecture: Pioneering Women in the BBC. Available from: https://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2023/06/02/online-public-lecture-pioneering-women-in-the-bbc/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily.
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Theses

• Terkanian, K., 2018. Women, work, and the BBC: how wartime restrictions and recruitment woes reshaped the corporation, 1939-45. PhD Thesis. Bournemouth University, Faculty of Media and Communication.
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Grants

• Coastal Communities, Coastal Stories (The National Lottery Heritage Fund, 01 Nov 2023). Awarded
• Bournemouth and Beales: Department Stores, Community, and the Decline of the High Street (BU ACORN Fund, 15 Feb 2022). Awarded

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

• Participant at Museum Late (18 Apr 2024)
• Beales - the rise and fall of the department store (22 Feb 2024)

Conference Presentations

• 'Value' and Women's Work in Broadcasting, The BBC and the value of labour during the long Second World War: Isa Benzie and Joanna Spicer, 15 Jul 2024, Bournemouth, UK
• Doing Women’s Film and Television History VI: Changing Streams and Channels, Producing Television: Case studies of women’s opportunities as television producers in the post-war BBC, 14 Jun 2023, University of Sussex
• Doing Women’s Film and Television History VI: Changing Streams and Channels, ROUNDTABLE: Doing Women’s Television Production Histories, 14 Jun 2023, University of Sussex
• 6th World Conference of the IFPH, Documenting the High Street: Collecting Memories and Reimagining the Future, 16 Aug 2022, Berlin, Germany
• Doing Women's Film and Television History: Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now, “Translating radio productions into television programmes: the post-war career of BBC writer/producer Nesta Pain”, 10 Jul 2021, Maynooth, Ireland, Online
• Doing Women's Film and Television History: Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now, Roundtable: International Perspectives on Women’s Television Production Histories, 10 Jul 2021, Maynooth, Ireland, online
• Oral History & The Media, Unity and Isolation: BBC Employee Experiences during the Second World War, 09 Jul 2021, Online
• Gendered Labour, Technology and the Media Workshop, From Women Operators to Technical Assistants: Women in the BBC’s Wartime Engineering Division, 11 Jan 2019, University of Sussex
• Transmitters, Trust and Confidence: Wartime Women and Transmitters at the BBC, 18 Dec 2018, Alexandra Palace, London
• What is British Contemporary History Now?, Consensus Panel, 13 Sep 2017, London
• Women and the Wider World, Influencing the International Listener: Nesta Pain and the Projection of Britain, 01 Sep 2017, University of Birmingham, UK
• Tracing Entanglements in Media History, Nesta Pain at the BBC. The Entangled Producer, 17 May 2017, Lund University, Sweden
• Comparative Homefronts: World War II, Maintaining Authority – The BBC, the Home Front and Woman Power, 14 Jan 2016, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
• Female Agency, Activism and Organisation, Gendering Jobs at the BBC, 04 Sep 2015, University of Kent, Canterbury
• “The Ideal Woman”: Interrogating Femininity across Disciplines and Time, Why We Fight: Rosie the Riveter, the Pin-Up Girl and Post-War America, 11 Mar 2011, Queen’s University Belfast

Qualifications

• PhD in History (Bournemouth University, 2019)
• MA in History (University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 2009)

Memberships

• Dorset Archives Trust, Trustee (2021-), https://www.dorsetarchivestrust.org/
• The Oral History Society, Member (2021-), https://www.ohs.org.uk/
• Women's History Network, Member (2019-), https://womenshistorynetwork.org/
• Museums Association, Member (2013-), https://www.museumsassociation.org/home

Broadcast Interview

• Morning Show, Radio Solent, Promotion of Coastal Communities, Coastal Stories project., Steve, H, 18 Mar 2024. https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl8l/2024/03/18