Dr Andrew Burn is a Reader in Education and the deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media.

Dr Andrew Burn is Reader in Education and New Media and assistant director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education. He teaches on the MA in Media, Culture & Communication, supervises research students, and works on funded research projects in the field of media and young people.

He has previously taught English, Drama and Media Studies in comprehensive schools for over twenty years. He has been a Head of English and an Assistant Principal at his last school, Parkside Community College in Cambridge, where his main role was to direct the school's media arts specialism: it was the first specialist Media Arts College in the country.

He has since played a major role in the development of media education and approaches to media literacy in the UK. He is also closely involved in international developments in this field, and is a member of the European Commission’s media literacy expert group. He has also been involved in media literacy policy in the UK, contributing to OFCOM’s media literacy initiative and to the work of the recent Byron Review of the impact of the internet and computer games on children.

He has published over 60 articles, book chapters and books on many aspects of the media, including media literacy, creativity, young people's use of digital video, the semiotics of computer games, and the design of computer games by young people. He has researched these topics in projects funded by, amongst others, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Eduserv Foundation, BECTa, and the DCSF. His recent publications include Media Literacy in Schools (with James Durran: Paul Chapman, 2007); Media Teaching (edited with Cal Durrant: Wakefield, 2008); Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play (with Diane Carr, David Buckingham and Gareth Schott: Polity, 2006); and Analysing Media Texts (with David Parker: Continuum, 2003). His new book is Making New Media (Peter Lang: 2008).