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Special interest group:
Documentary

Convenors:  
  • Lorena Cervera (Arts University Bournemouth)
  • Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex)
  • Patrick Brian Smith (University of Warwick)

Overview

The Documentary SIG aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, and researchers to exchange ideas, generate debates, and form collaborations on various aspects of the documentary. Documentary—as a theoretical and epistemological frame—cuts across many different types of film and media. The SIG aims to define it as broadly as possible, engaging with a wide range of emerging ideas and research in this burgeoning field. We invite ideas and contributions from all parts of the world, and actively encourage suggestions for, and participation in, documentary SIG-related events—be they screenings, talks, book launches, discussions, reading groups and the like. We are particularly interested in hearing about projects that place the documentary in dialogue with activist, queer, decolonial, anti-racist, migratory and environmental methods and practices.

Reports on activities

  • Report: Book Launch: Intimate Sovereignty by Laliv Melamed (University of California Press, 2023), Queen Mary University London. 8 June 2023.
  • ​​Documentary SIG Report 2019

Founding members

  • Nic Blower (University of Essex)
  • Catalin Brylla (Bournemouth University)
  • Martin Carter (Sheffield Hallam University)
  • Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent)
  • Jill Daniels (University of East London)
  • Demelza Kooij (Liverpool John Moores University)
  • ​Yael Friedman (University of Portsmouth)
  • ​Jeffrey Geiger (University of Essex)
  • Bella Honess Roe (University of Surrey)
  • Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University)
  • Helen Hughes (University of Surrey)
  • Barbara Knorp (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
  • Searle Kochberg (University of Portsmouth)
  • Kate Nash (University of Leeds)
  • Domitilla Olivieri (Utrecht University)
  • Ania Ostrowska (University of Southampton)
  • Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University)
  • Steve Presence (University of the West of England)
  • Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork)
  • Pratap Rughani (University of the Arts London)
  • Cecilia Sayad (University of Kent)
  • Anna Viola Sborgi (King's College London)​
  • Lizzy Thynne (University of Sussex)
  • Leshu Torchin (University of St. Andrews)
  • Sue Vice (University of Sheffield)
  • Brian Winston (University of Lincoln)
  • Nicole Wolf, (University of London)
  • Kiki Tianqi Yu (University of the West of Scotland)
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        • Statement in response to UK Supreme Court ruling re. the Equality Act 2010
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        • REF29 Guidance Summary (February 2025)
        • Letter to Education Secretary - 4 February 2025
      • 2024
        • Racism and Islamophobia
        • Letter to Chair of REF29 Steering Group, 18 June 2024
        • Statement on Gaza
        • Response to threat of possible job cuts at University of Kent (February 2024)
      • 2023
        • Response to REF 2028 Consultation (October 2023)
        • Open letter opposing AHRC cuts to PhD studentships
        • Response to possible compulsory redundancies at UEA, March / July 2023
      • 2022
        • Response to Falmouth University re. Falmouth Staffing Ltd (FSL), November 2022
        • Response to Job Cuts at Birkbeck, November 2022
        • Future Research Assessment Programme 2022 (FRAP)
        • Joint MeCCSA and BAFTSS letter regarding Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
      • 2021
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