Dr Lawrence Jackson

Lawrence studied Modern Languages at Oxford University, before attending Bournemouth Film School. After working in various crew capacities in the UK film industry for 3 years, he worked for BBC Northern Ireland Drama in-house for 2 years as a Bi-Media Producer. 

As writer-director he has five short films, and as producer-director around fifty hours of radio drama and readings to his name. The shorts, shot in locations from Margate to Northern Ireland to Prague to Newcastle, have been screened at the Munich Film Festival, London’s ICA Cinema, Manchester International Festival and on BBC TV.

Lawrence's radio work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 4 and 4 Extra, in prestigious slots such as Drama on 3, Woman’s Hour, Afternoon Play and Classic Serial. 

He has cast and directed a wide range of actors including David Threlfall, Anne-Marie Duff, Rufus Sewell, Ciaran Hinds, Helen McCrory, Richard E.Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Toby Jones and David Warner. His most recent radio credit was the 90-minute BBC Radio 3 supernatural thriller The Strangers' Will, written by Sarah Hall and Dominic Power.

Lawrence has also collaborated to develop screen and radio ideas with a variety of writers such as playwright David Rudkin and novelists John Connolly, Sarah Hall and Andrew Martin.

Lawrence's post is Teaching and Scholarship based. His areas of interest include screenwriting, directing actors and genre storytelling, with particular focus on ghost stories, thrillers and westerns.

In Spring 2025 his book Uncanny Landscapes in 21st Century British Cinema: The Pestilence in the Ditch will be published by Edinburgh University Press.    

Lawrence convenes a variety of modules in screenwriting and filmmaking.

Lawrence would be happy to talk to any students about the practical side of screenplay development, directing actors and realising genre fiction for screen.