Terry Bailey

Dr Terry Bailey is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London, affiliated with the Department of Music, Writing & Performance within the School of Arts and Creative Industries. He currently leads two Creative Writing programs, teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and supervises PhD students.

His research interests focus on Narrative Structure, Crime Fiction, Screen History, and Writing Manuals. His recent publications explore theoretical frameworks in screenwriting studies, genre evolution, and historical narrative conventions. Key trends in his work include transmedia storytelling, fidelity discourse, and practitioner-academic intersections.

Terry has authored three crime novels (Small Justice, Blind Spot, Dead in Time) and contributed to academic conferences on topics like transmedia narrative challenges, crime novel adaptations, and three-act structure origins. His full biography includes a background in television production across the UK and Canada.