My research interests include the impact of digital media on culture, transmedia and multimedia production, open access and open education, particularly within the creative arts and the humanities, as well as transformations in the ways that people can access and make media. This includes working on a range of projects funded by the AHRC, JISC, UN, HEFCE, AWM as well as a number of commercial and charitable organisations.
In particular, I am interested in the way that new modes of cultural production and distribution are creating a demand for a re-evaluation of the role of knowledge and research within the arts and humanities. As part of this, I currently work with the Open Media Research Group at Coventry University exploring projects and issues around the critique and impact of digital culture on traditional forms of knowledge and cultural organisation.
Central to all my research is the way that new ecologies of knowledge and networks of participation are working to challenge institutions such as the university and traditional media organisations. Areas I am currently exploring include:
- Guerilla Creativity (in filmmaking in particular) and how independent makers are coming together to produce work without the need for traditional industry, and developing new ways to distribute, learn, make and fund their practice.
- Open and Collaborative forms of cultural production and what this means in terms of wider social and cultural questions such as ownership, power and identity.
- What participatory and open knowledge means for the University (in particular academic publishing and Teaching)- and how we need to disrupt the elitist models of education that are emerging in our neoliberal academic institutions.
In the past I have been involved as a researcher in a range of research media-based research projects in the areas of Digital Archiving in the Arts and Diversity and Equality as well as a number of knowledge transfer and community based projects and initiatives. I primarily use film, documentary and multimedia to create and disseminate this work.
I have spoken at a number of conferences and consulted with a number of Universities and conferences as far as China, Australia and Africa. Find out about some of these projects.
Or take a look at my conference papers and publications
