Above: Vasco Alexandre at the RTS London Student Awards 2021. Source: Royal Television Society
in Care, Contagion, Community – Self & Other at the Autograph gallery in autumn 2021-spring 2022. Dexter talked about inclusion in photography at the Bristol Photo Festival, and Florian Grosset, a Children’s Book Illustration and Graphic Novels graduate, published The Chagos Betrayal (Myriad Editions).
This has been another year of achievements for our academics. Daniel Quirke, BA Animation lecturer, was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Short Animation. Senior Lecturer in Jazz Nikki Iles won the Seattle Jazz Composition Award for large Jazz Ensemble and published two books for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In Illustration, Lecturer Paul Barritt’s theatre company 1927 became a National Portfolio Organisation – whose funding requires us to do outreach work – and Senior Lecturer Martin Ursell became a mentor on the Pathways, an Arts Council England-funded programme supporting a diverse group of talented artists who want to be the next generation of children’s illustrators.
RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
A significant volume of research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Dr Maja Simunjak, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, won an AHRC Leadership Fellowship award for work on journalists’ emotional labour in the era of social media. In Fine Art, Associate Professor Simon Read collaborated on ‘Imagining the Measure of Change: Art, Science and the Estuary Community’, and Senior Lecturer Dr Loraine Leeson worked on ‘Spaces of HOPE: the Hidden History of Community Led Planning’ and ‘The Art of Healing in Kashmir: How Creative Activities can Support Child Wellbeing in Areas Of Conflict’. Senior Lecturer in Film David Heinemann and Film alumna Elvina Nevardauskaite won the AHRC Research in Film award for Voices Apart.
The Economic and Social Research Council funded research on musicians’ and audiences’ experience of livestreamed concerts, which was led by Senior Lecturer at Middlesex Julia Haferkorn as principle investigator, with co-investigator and Middlesex Senior Lecturer Sam Leak. The project, which involved King’s College London and other partners, resulted in the ‘Livestreaming Music in the UK’ report.
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Associate Professor at Middlesex Dr Richard Osborne together with the University of Leeds and Ulster University, undertook groundbreaking UK Intellectual Property Office commissioned research on music creators’ earnings. Outcomes by 31 July 2021 included an advisory appearance before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport parliamentary Select Committee in October 2020, with the research report due to be published in autumn 2021.
Research and knowledge exchange produced by the Faculty brings cultures together to create solutions to global problems. For example, Professor Chris Bannerman is Middlesex lead on the ‘Japan-UK Dance and Healthy Ageing’ project, and Pedro de Senna is the Middlesex lead on ‘FUTURES – future laboratories for professional and personal development’, an Erasmus+ funded project with partners in Greece, Poland, the Netherlands and Italy. Lecturer in Illustration Samantha Lippett won grants from the Lithuanian Council for Culture for her work on social practice and art production in the Baltic region and from Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
OUR CONTRIBUTION TO INDUSTRY
Publications from Middlesex Lecturers included Dr Adesola Akinleye’s Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue) (Bloomsbury), Dr Lara Thompson’s novel One Night, New York (Virago) and Dr Luke White’s Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films (University of Hawaii Press). In addition, Senior Lecturer in Scriptwriting David Cottis edited two volumes of Welsh plays (Parthian Books) and Head of Department of Media Dr James Charlton was commissioned to write a script by Just Some Theatre Co.
Other highlights from 2020/21 included Illustration Senior Lecturer Louise Weir being chosen by Artillery Arts/Barbican for a residency, Animation Programme Leader Dr Lilly Husbands presenting a research project with Los Angeles Filmforum and the Getty, as well as 3D Animation and Games Programme Leader Ben Wheele exhibiting at the Casino Luxembourg Gallery and releasing non-fungible tokens for a project with Gazelli Art House. A research project by Illustration student Lorraine Teresa Ansell, ‘Are We All Still Pink Princesses In Fairy-Tale Land?’, looking at gender equality and stereotyping, is being used in a resource for the Kate Greenaway Award.
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