[Commlist] Methodologies for Screen Industries Research Symposium

Just a quick reminder about the forthcoming symposium, Methodologies for 
Screen Industries Research, which is taking place at Bristol’s Watershed 
Cinema and Digital Creativity Centre on January 15 2020. The event is 
funded by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies 
(BAFTSS) and the Moving Image Research Group at the University of the 
West of England (UWE Bristol), and is organised by the BAFTSS Screen 
Industries Special Interest Group.

For more info and to register, please visit: 
https://info.uwe.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?id=24699. The deadline for 
registration is 23.59 on December 22, but places are limited and filling 
up fast, so don’t delay!

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Methodologies for Screen Industries Research: Symposium, book launch and 
lecture with Professor Annette Hill

*Date*: 15 January 2020
*Venue*:**The Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX 
<https://www.watershed.co.uk/>
*Time*:**09:00-17:00; followed by book launch from 17.30-18.30

Industry-focused research projects and publications have increased 
significantly in recent years, and the research methods involved in this 
work are as diverse as the field itself - from archival research, 
interviews and participant observation to focus groups, questionnaires, 
surveys and statistical analysis. Yet what exactly does each of these 
methods involve in practice? What are their advantages and 
disadvantages? Moreover, how should the researcher navigate the myriad 
ethical issues involved in using them? With a handful of exceptions 
(such as Freeman 2016; Paterson et al 2015), in recent years there has 
been little focused discussion on the methodological processes that 
underpin screen industries research. This event will address that need, 
and aims to bring together leading scholars working in the field 
alongside those who are new to industry-focused research, including 
postgraduate research students.


  Schedule

**

09.00-09.30: coffee and registration

09.30-09.45: Introduction, Steve Presence (UWE Bristol)

09.45-10.40: Keynote address by Professor Annette Hill (Lund 
University), ‘Media Industries and Audience Research: an analytic 
dialogue on the value of engagement’

10.40-11.00: coffee

11.00-12.40: Panel 1

Chair: Dominic Lees

  * Anne O’Brien and Sarah Arnold (Maynooth University, Ireland),‘“I was
    very much aware of what I would have to sacrifice…”: Finding media
    graduates’ lived experience, memories of education and career
    narratives through qualitative methodologies’

  * Christa van Raalte, Richard Wallis and Fiona Cownie (Bournemouth
    University), ‘A workplace perspective on the value of creative
    education in the screen industries: a networked, case-study approach’

  * Zoe Glatt (London School of Economics), ‘Becoming a YouTuber:
    Auto-ethnographic explorations of the online video industry’

  * Tatiana Styliari (University of Nottingham), ‘Understanding the
    contemporary cinema-going experience by conducting multidisciplinary
    research’

12.40-13.40: Lunch

13.40-15.20:  Panel 2

Chair: Andrew Spicer

  * Caitriona Noonan and Ruth McElroy (Cardiff University), ‘Embedded
    Methodologies: researching screen ecologies in small nations’

  * Max Sexton (University of Surrey) and Dominic Lees (UWE Bristol),
    ‘Exploring Flexible Production in “Original Content” Television’

  * Paul Kerr (Middlesex University), ‘Management at The Mirisch
    Company: “A high degree of efficiency” (/633 Squadron/, 1964)’
  * Melanie Selfe (University of Glasgow), ‘Who persuaded Sam Goldwyn to
    hire Busby Berkeley and why should we care? Unpicking the academic
    consolidation of Hollywood myth’

15.20-15.40: coffee

15.40-17.00: workshop and plenary

·15.40-16.10: Ruth Barton and Denis Murphy (Trinity College Dublin), 
‘Ecologies of Cultural Production – researching career construction in 
the creative industries’

·16.10-17.00: Plenary, chaired by Steve Presence, Andrew Spicer and Amy 
Genders

17.00-17.30: wine and nibbles

17.30-18.30: book launch with Professor Annette Hill, /Media 
Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television/(Routledge 2019)//

A leading figure in media industry studies, Professor Hill's new book, 
/Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television/ 
(Routledge 2019), bridges the divide between industry and academia, and 
draws on interviews and observations with over 500 producers and 
audience members to explore how producers and audiences co-create 
experiences within emerging media landscapes.

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