ENGAGEMENT
23rd June - 11.45 to 13.00 - online on Zoom
Beyond the Academy: How to Engage Audiences Through Film
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This session explores film as a research methodology that can both produce research data and reach wide audiences through distribution online, television, film festivals and cinemas. The session presents case studies of funded academic research projects that have successfully used film to generate public engagement and impact beyond the academy. It will also give students hands on tips and advice on how to increase visibility around their filmed content.
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Abi Weaver is an award-winning producer/director who has worked across a range of visual media from independent feature documentaries to programming for major UK broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 5). She has also worked in film and television distribution covering MENA. Her research develops a critical analysis of the voice in documentary specifically focusing on the face-to-face encounter in the documentary interview. This research is informed by her work conducting extensive interviews with ex-fighters from the Lebanese Civil War for her latest co-directed film About a War (Rugo-Weaver 2018, Lebanon/UK). Abi is a TECHNE-funded doctoral candidate at the University of Surrey and an affiliate of the Centre for Lebanese Studies. She is consultant on academic research projects using documentary interview methods as tools for research and dissemination.
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Rose Baker is a programmer at Belfast Film Festival and Docs Ireland. She co-founded and co-directs the first dedicated feminist film festival in the north of Ireland, Wanda: Feminism & Moving Image. She is passionate about archive moving image and is currently studying for a Techne collaborative award PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London on the topic of Ulster Television in the 1960s, working with both Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).
Podcasts and Engagement
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Join the Technecast team for a discussion about the social nature of academic engagement today, and the part podcasts, and audio in general can play in this. We will follow debate with a workshop on creating podcasts, before answering practical questions and telling you more about the Technecast, Techne's student podcast.
RJF: Techne Diversity Hub Interactive Workshop
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Calling all students of colour, international students and anti-racism allies, from across Techne's five disciplines! As a continuation of the conversation from the ‘RJF: Race and the Struggles of Higher Education’ panel on day one of the congress, the Racial Justice Fellowship team is proud to introduce Techne's Diversity Hub.
This online resource offers support to prospective and current doctoral students of colour. It will offer services such as: an application surgery for prospective students, mentoring services for current students, safe-spaces forums, resources for academics supervising students of colour, race-based bibliographies, research networks, organisations and communities – and much more!
Join us in launching the Hub – the first of its kind across the entire consortium – and let us know what you think and what you need from it. This interactive workshop will call upon your expertise to help us crowdsource more invaluable resources for all of us!
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Nour El Gazzaz is a PhD Candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her doctoral research combines Critical Race Theory and Material Culture Studies to examine the intersectionality between foreign peoples and foreign objects on the early modern stage. El Gazzaz also has forthcoming publications with MUP and Bloomsbury. After the tragic murder of George Floyd, El Gazzaz collaborated with Techne to create the Racial Justice Fellowship programme. She also sits on the Steering Committee of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network, UK, in partnership with King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe.
Khadijah Naeem research considers whether the Grenfell Tower fire can be considered a state crime. She is particularly interested in whether the government knew, but deliberately ignored, the dangers involved with the use of cladding on high-rise buildings. She will consider whether this behaviour can be linked to the political economy. She teaches a variety of modules at Royal Holloway, including Crimes of the Powerful and Criminal Law. She has been a Racial Justice Fellow with Techne for over a year, working collaboratively on the Hub to create a supportive space for doctoral students of colour.
Prof. Ted Vallance is a historian of 17th-century England, focusing on its two revolutions and is currently working on a new history of the trial and execution of Charles I. In his role as Director of the Graduate School and Institutional lead for Techne at Roehampton, he has led the Techne digital hub project in collaboration with the Techne Racial Justice Fellows.
StoryTrails: Creating Immersive History
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StoryTrails is a UK-wide project giving creative practitioners access to film archives (including the BBC and BFI) and cutting-edge immersive technologies from Niantic in one of the biggest people’s history projects ever undertaken, as part of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK. The StoryFutures team will explore how they worked with six STEAM partners develop formats and a ‘kit of parts’ for creatives new to immersive storytelling, enabling them to realise the possibilities of lidar scanning, augmented reality and installation media.
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Doctoral researcher in inclusive innovation, Angela Chan, and audience insight researcher Maruša Levstek from StoryFutures will describe how Royal Holloway's cluster programme came to lead one of ten national projects creating the UK's biggest immersive experience to date. They also want to share a story of how academic research has become the driving force for ambitious projects in the creative industries.