Academic Credentials
Lloyd was appointed as a Media and Performance Lecturer at Salford University in 1993 and as a Senior Lecturer in 2001 to 2018. He was appointed Head of the Performance Department from 2003-2007 and Programme Leader of the suite of MA Media Production programmes from 2013-2018.
Easy to read. No Ivory Towers here. Peer-reviewed articles of note:
Peters, LH 2013, ‘The roots of alternative comedy? - the alternative story of 20th Century coyote and eighties comedy’. Comedy Studies Volume 4(1): pages 5-21 DOI:10.1386
A must read for followers and scholars of 20th Century Coyote and Rik Mayall - the non-revisionist, unmassaged truthful version
Peters, LH 2015. ‘ A Higher Education - A Polemic (for a change).’ Sage Journals, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Volume 14, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022215591102
Explores some of the political and cultural issues that surround Higher Education that inspired the writing and production of the hit BBC radio play ‘A Higher Education’, by Lloyd Peters, starring Rik Mayall,. Warning: includes funny lines!
Peters, LH 2018, ‘Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate ?’ Comedy Studies Volume 9 (1): pages 76-83, Published online: 26 Feb 2018 https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2018.1437166
With original interviews with UK theatre producers and commissioners, the paper poses the uncomfortable question, ‘Is ‘serious’ British theatrical comedy dead?’
Peters, LH and Becker, Sue ‘Racism in comedy reappraised: Back to Little England?’ Comedy Studies Volume 1 (2) pages 191-200, Published online: 03 Jan 2014https://doi.org/10.1386/cost.1.2.159_1
Much cited paper that examines racism in television comedy both explicit (eg Little Britain) and casual racism (eg Teenage Kicks.)
‘ Media Practice and New Approaches to Mise-en-Scene and Auteur Theory in Broadcast Radio’ (2014 PhD. Salford University repository)
Don’t be put off by the long title, Lloyd’s PhD thesis focuses on the practicalities of writing and producing his many broadcast BBC radio plays. There is a dedicated chapter on the writing and recording of ‘A Higher Education’, starring Rik Mayall.
Lloyd as Senior Lecturer at Salford University was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2011 and gained a PhD based on his broadcast radio scripts in 2014. He was awarded an Honorary Senior Lectureship in 2018.
Lloyd’s research interests centre around issues that focus on political performance, comedy studies, radio drama, adaptation theory, disability issues and non-naturalistic stage, radio and screen performance.
His research has been presented at international and national conferences, published in peer-reviewed articles and journals as well as being disseminated through radio and television interview. He is a editorial board member of the Comedy Studies journal.
Lloyd has appeared in a number of television and radio documentaries to talk about his work such as his collaborations with artists such as Rik Mayall and the Stand-up Comedy course he taught to students that included Peter Kay, Jason Manford and Luisa Omielan.