My interdisciplinary research sits at the intersection between literature, philosophy, history, technology studies and social science. I also conduct practice-based research relating to digital marketing and reflective practice / work-based learning.

I am particularly interested in the impact of new technologies, and the philosophical relationship between humans and machines.

Keywords: biopolitics, technology, consumption, science fiction, robots, AI, drones, ethics, war.

Prior to my life as an academic I  worked as a content writer in the video games industry, and professional ghostwriter in the healthcare sector. More recently, I have worked in digital communications and marketing at various HE institutions including Lancaster, UCLan and CCCU. 

I am a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA). I am also Programme Director of our new MSc Digital and Social Media Marketing.

I currently teach on the following modules:

• MKTG101: Introduction to Marketing
• MKTG233: Digital Marketing
• MKTG411: Digital Marketing (module leader)
• MKTG421: Digital Marketing (module leader)
• MKTG557: Digital Marketing and Social Media in Practice (module leader)

I am also Academic Tutor for numerous undergraduate students, and supervise various student projects on our MSc programmes.

• PGCAP
• PhD: 'Citizen Robots: Biopolitics, the Computer and the Vietnam Period'
• MA English – Distinction
• BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing – 1st
• A-levels: Maths, Physics, History, Business and Economics, Government and Politics, General Studies
• AS-levels: English, Sociology, Film Studies

My personal website can be found at www.mjryder.net.

I am also Director at Mental Capacity Ltd – a specialist healthcare training provider based in the North West.