Experience

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  Auckland University of Technology

  • New Zealand
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head, Virtual Creative Precinct, DCT/AUT

    • Mar 2024 - Present

    Heading up an exciting new initiative to connect and combine the virtual and real creative spaces on the AUT CBD campus in Auckland,NZ.

  • Associate Professor, Communication Studies

    • Sep 2018 - Present

  • Acting Head, School of Communications

    • Jul 2022 - Mar 2024

  • Deputy Head - School of Communications

    • Oct 2021 - Mar 2024

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  Peter Lang

  • https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/DFC

  • Co-editor: Documentary Film Cultures (Book Series)

    • May 2017 - Present
    • https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/DFC

    This series provides a space for exploring the development of documentary film cultures in the contemporary context. The series takes an ecological approach to the study of documentary funding, production, distribution and consumption by emphasizing the interconnections between these practices and those of other media systems. It thus encourages new ways of understanding documentary films or practices as part of other, wider systems of cultural production.Volumes may focus on specific sociopolitical environments, such as that of a nation or region. Alternatively, they may explore specific themes or production practices, such as new wave documentaries, environmentalism or indigenous film communities. Studies of shared technological platforms, including films that make use of embodied technologies or using emergent distribution platforms, are also welcome.The series reflects not only the maturing of literature on documentary film and media production studies over the last two decades but also the growing interest amongst nonacademic and professional audiences in documentary texts as they occupy an increasingly hybrid cultural space: part journalism, part art cinema, part activism, part entertainment, part digital culture.

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  Aberystwyth University

  • United Kingdom
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director of Postgraduate Studies, Institute of Arts and Humanities

    • Sep 2014 - Jul 2018

    I am responsible for recruitment, curriculum development, student success and quality assurance for postgraduate studies across 6 departments at Aberystwyth University: Education English Cymraeg/CelticModern Languages School of Art Theatre Film and TV

  • Lecturer in Media Production Cultures

    • Oct 2006 - Jul 2018

    Teaching: (BA) documentary practice and theory, media studies, media history, studying television, factual screen media production, media industries, surveillance society; (MA) textual analysis, research methods, cultural industries, Co-ordinator of: Production Research Placement (creative industry work placement module)Thesis Supervision [including]: (MA) Marketing Strategies in Youth Theatre; Folk Music and Social Media; (PhD) Japanese Anime; The Essay Film and Broadcasting; Climate Change and Affect in Documentary; Hyper-local news.Research: screen media practice as research; political economy of the media; media production studies; the creative industries; interactive digital media; the history of documentary film.

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  Atlantic Productions

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Programme Development Co-ordinator

    • Jul 2003 - Dec 2003
    • London, United Kingdom

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  Seventh Art Productions

  • Brighton, United Kingdom

  • Development Executive

    • Apr 2001 - Oct 2002
    • Brighton, United Kingdom

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  Victoria Real

  • Brighton, United Kingdom

  • Producer

    • Jun 1998 - Mar 2001
    • Brighton, United Kingdom

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  Teliesyn

  • Assistant producer

    • 1997 - 1997

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  Fulmar West

  • Researcher

    • 1997 - 1997