WED JAN 11TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204:

DR. ISLAM ABOHELA. Islam is an Architect with experience in research and teaching
Architecture, Interior Design, Building Science and Design related modules. His research interests and publications focus on implementing simulation tools in understanding building physics, energy performance in buildings, retrofitting micro renewable sources of energy in urban areas and the effect of behavioural interventions on energy consumption in buildings. His publications also cover his research on the image of future city and its architecture in science fiction films.

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks

COLLABORATIONS – Working across teams, co–creating and other fruitful research partnerships

WED DEC 7 TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204

DR. NEIL BROWNSWORD. Prof. Brownsword is an artist, researcher and educator. His
research into the legacy of deindustrialisation in relation to North Staffordshire’s ceramic industry has had national and international cultural impact, through reactivating associated post–industrial spaces and endangered industrial crafts.

DR. MARIA MARTINEZ SANCHEZ. Maria is Associate Professor of Architecture and the
Course Leader of the BArch (Hons) Architecture. She holds a PhD in Architecture and has a professional background in theatre and performance design, specializing in space design within devising theatre processes.

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks

WED NOV 9TH 3.30-5.00P.M : CA204 – BEGINNINGS – How do projects start? What are the catalysts for interesting research projects? (Michael Day, Alke Groeppel-Wegener)

BEGINNINGS – How do projects start? What are the catalysts for interesting research projects?#

WED NOV 9 TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204
DR. MICHAEL DAY. Michael is an artist, researcher, lecturer, and occasional curator. He is interested in the ways that digital technologies can structure experience, and produces  artworks that explore relationships between technology and agency. Michael’s practice is interdisciplinary and uses a range of media and technologies, including digital media, sound, installation, electronics and print.

DR. ALKE GRÖPPEL–WEGENER. Alke is Associate Professor of Creative Academic Practice at Staffordshire University, where her teaching focus is Animation Studies. Her research interests are two–fold: within Learning and Teaching she explores the links between creative and academic practice, developing a number of visual analogies and creative activities to help students understand ‘hidden’ academic practice. Alke’s
other research interest is Experience Design, with a particular interest in theme parks

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks

SESSION 5: Wednesday 22^nd February, 15:30-17:00 (GMT) – link to join

In the quest of creating a “Third Path in Cinema” in the Greek academic and filmmaking environment by Iakovos Panagopoulos (Ionian University)

This presentation will focus on the creation of film practice research field in Greece, the “Third Path in Cinema” as I like to call it. I will present the issues, challenges and possibilities of creating this path and the solutions that this field can provide to academia and independent filmmaking industry. I will present examples, case studies and my new book, that got published recently in Greece, entitled: “The Third Path in Cinema: The Academic Filmmaker Model” that is focusing on this specific topic.

SESSION 4: Wednesday 25^th January 2023, 15:30-17:00 (GMT) – link to join

Filming the non-human by Catherine Gough-Brady (Head of Postgraduate Studies at JMC Academy in Australia, and is an associate editor of Screenworks).

Dr. Catherine Gough-Brady is exploring ways to film the non-human. This includes filming a river system during a drought and attempting to capture a sense of place in the film. More recently Gough-Brady has been wondering what would happen if she interviewed the place, rather than observed it, and how this would change the way she films and edits the material. This work is leading to a larger project where she intends to film in an urban park and meld the stories of the people, the plants, the water, the sky and the animals, to combine rather than separate nature and culture. 

Gough-Brady will talk about how her practice interacts with research and theory, and how her practice forms part of the post-humanist, feminist and decolonising discussions in filmmaking, including on scale, the act of listening, methodology and precarity.

SESSION 3: Wednesday 14^th December 2022, 15:30-17:00 (GMT) – link to join

By Roy Hanney (Associate Professor of Media Production, Southampton Solent University) & Ben Harbisher (Head of MeCCSA Practice Network and Associate Professor at Coventry University).

Part 1: Roy Hanney: The best questions are often the last questions: making sense of experimental creative practice as research

Dr. Hanney will explore some of the issues that emerged from a recent paper that reflected on a creative practice project he ran in 2019. In particular, he will reflect on how the research question emerged after the practice and ask what this means for practice-based researchers engaged in experimental and sandbox projects.

Part 2: Ben Harbisher: Behavioural science, normative discourse, and the art of consent

The session will largely examine visual examples and advertising practices that emerged during the pandemic. In part this will also provide a critique of Thaler and Sunstein’s “Nudge” theory and its deployment during the crisis as a means to sway public opinion and shape conduct during the new normal.

SESSION 2: Wednesday 30^th November 2022, 15:30-17:00 (GMT) – link to join

So What? Film Practice Research and Impacts by Prof. Erik Knudsen (Faculty Director of Research, Faculty of Culture and Creative Industries, Professor of Media Practice, University of Central Lancashire).

Media practice research has over the past 25 years, or more, firmly established itself within the broader UK higher education research environment as important and legitimate research. In this wider context, research funding, and the evaluation of research, both in the UK and globally, is being focused on the impact the research being undertaken is having on both audiences, beneficiaries and industry partners. As an example of this, the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF), which measures quality of research every five or six years across the UK higher education sector, has unequivocally indicated that evaluation of impacts will be an increasing feature of research assessments going forward. Various funding bodies, too, while not always using the word “impact”, are equally concerned that their investments deliver meaningful impacts. Professor Erik Knudsen will explore how we as filmmakers working in the academy can shape, engage with and address the need for our creative practice research to deliver impact.