Charlotte Brunsdon (born 1952[1]) is a professor of film and television studies at the University of Warwick and researcher.
[5][6] Brunsdon's research interests focuses on television and film and their connection to culture and feminism as well as the effects media has on audiences.
[8] The project focused on media audiences to study the encoding and decoding model, which is a part of reception theory.
The research focused on the difference between how certain audiences understand texts with an emphasis on British television, something Brunsdon and Morley call 'national-ness'.
Brunsdon, along with Jason Jacobs, Ann Gray, and Tim O’Sullivan founded the Midlands Television Research Group in the 1990s, to create a space for media scholars in the United Kingdom.