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Dr Sarita Malik

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Dr Sarita Malik is a Lecturer in Media and Communications in the  Department of Sociology and Communications at Brunel University. She previously worked for the BBC as a Researcher, and later as an Arts Programmer specialising  in Asian Arts, a research bid writer and Research Fellow on a large ESRC project exploring public understandings of regulation. Her doctoral research, based at  the British Film Institute, analysed the history of Black and Asian  representation on British television and was supervised by the renowned  sociologist, Stuart Hall. Sarita’s academic research is focused on how social  processes and systems operate in relation to ideology and inequalities, with a particular focus on the relationship between the media and cultural  representation. Current projects examine cultural diversity and public service broadcasting, reality TV and discourses of equality, and black and Asian British cinema. She is also  working on helping the British Film Institute develop its Diversity  policies through related research. She  has been the Principal Investigator on two Arts and Humanities Research Council
Connected Communities projects looking at the relationship between communities and screen culture. The first project, Diasporic Film in Communities (2012), in partnership with the British Film Institute, was a scoping study of  the relationship between Diasporic screen culture, stakeholders and communities.  The ‘Community filmmaking and cultural diversity’ follow-up grant turns the  focus to debates around community filmmaking in cultural diverse contexts. 

dr caroline chapain

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Dr Caroline Chapain is a lecturer at the Business School, University of  Birmingham. Previously, Caroline studied and worked in France and in Canada. From 2002 to 2005, she worked as a research advisor on public finance, economic development, and cultural issues for the Montreal Metropolitan Planning Organization. Since 2005, she has been looking at the way creative industries emerge, operate and develop at the local and regional levels in the UK and in Europe. She was part of ACRE, a FP6 project which aimed to assess the impact of the emerging 'creative class' and the rise of the 'creative industries' on the competitiveness of EU metropolitan regions. She was involved in a project   looking at the links between creative clusters and regional innovation in Great Britain for NESTA (the British national agency for innovation). In the last two years she has been involved in various projects exploring the links between creative practices and online media as well as the development of creative systems for the Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities Programme in the UK: one looking at 'Crafting communities of practice and
  interest: connecting "online" and "offline" making practices', one looking at ‘Complexity theory and the creative economy’ and a large project looking at 'Community, Media and Creative citizenship’; this latest project is running
until 2014. Caroline co-chairs with Roberta Comunian and Nick Clifton the Regional Studies Association Network on Creative Regions in Europe (www.creative-regions.eu)

Dr Roberta comunian

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Dr. Roberta Comunian is Lecturer in Cultural  and Creative Industries at  the Department for Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London.  She previously worked at the University of Kent and at the University of Southampton. She holds a European Doctorate title in Network  Economy and Knowledge Management. She is interested in: relationship between public and private investments in the arts, art and cultural regeneration  projects, cultural and creative industries, creativity and competitiveness. She  has been Marie Curie Fellow at University of Newcastle (Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies) investigating the relationship between creative industries, cultural policy and public supported art institutions. She has also undertaken research on knowledge transfer and creative industries within an AHRC Impact Fellowship award at the University of Leeds.  She is currently researching the role of higher education in the creative economy and has recently explored in various papers the career opportunities and patterns of creative graduates in UK

ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERS

The project is supported by two associate researchers, funded by external funds, Dr Patricia Romeiro, based at the University of Birmingham and Clive Nwonka based at Brunel University.

dR PATRÍCIA  ROMEIRO

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Patricia Romeiro is visiting scholar at the University of Birmingham. She has  as an academic
background in  Geography and
in Innovation and Development  Policies. Being  a researcher at CEGOT - U. Porto (Portugal), her main purpose is research to
improve strategies, practices and knowledge of the environments within which she
practice. The Creative Industries (CI), the Economic and Social Innovation, and  the Social Network Analysis are the most used "tools" that she uses to think  about the dynamics of cities and regions. She has been involved in some projects related to Territorial Development and CI in
the Northern Portugal (Knowledge Economy and Creativity, Creativity and Urban Regeneration, Creative Projects and Governance; Design and Industrial  Revitalization).



CLIVE JAMES NWONKA

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Clive  James Nwonka is a PhD candidate in screenwriting and Film at the School of Arts,
Brunel University.  His creative submission is a feature length screenplay and critical essay on its development process. In addition, his research-based thesis is a retrospective analysis of British Social Realism as a film genre, considering the affect on social realism by New Labour’s cultural policy, Film Four, BBC Films and the UK Film Council.  The contribution of Clive James Nwonka to the project Community Filmmaking & Cultural Diversity: practice, innovation and policy is supported by a Brunel
Research Initiative and Enterprise Fund.


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The  project is supported by the Arts & Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) as part of the Connected Communities Programme  
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