Creative Media Academy Research Symposium
Schedule
Fri Oct 31 2025 at 09:45 am to 04:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Ayr Campus, University of the West of Scotland (UWS) | Ayr, SC
About this Event
Welcome to the Creative Media Academy Research Showcase!
Join us at the Ayr Campus, University of the West of Scotland (UWS) for a day filled with innovative ideas and cutting-edge research in the world of creative media.
This in-person event is your chance to connect with fellow researchers, industry professionals, and students who share your passion for all things media.
Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to learn, network, and be inspired.
See you there!
Room GT25
10.00am Introduction from CMA Director, Prof Nick Higgins
& VP Research & Enterprise, Prof Robert MacIntosh
10am -11.30am - Early Career Researcher Panel
Chair: Dr Catriona Fallow
Dr Clare Duffin, ‘Liminal Drum Circling’: Can You Positively Lose and Find Yourself in a Collective Rhythmic Circle?
Dr Ann-Christine Simke, Dramaturgies of Change: Stellar Quines and Intersectional Feminist Theatre Making
Dr Aislinn White, Art in Sites of Dislocation: The Curatorial as Critical Spatial Practice
11.30am-1pm - Post Graduate Researchers Panel
Chair: Dr Kathryn Burnett
Kate Cotter, Framing Gendered Experiences: Women Directing Factual Television in Scotland
Kennagh Spowart, Decolonising the Canon through Participatory Theatre: Using Visual Novel Dramaturgies in Scottish Secondary Education
Viknendran Sivalingam, Mend your Speech a Little: power, site and subversive speech in Malaysian Shakespeare
Theodoros Panagopoulos, Performing Diasporic Archival Counternarratives
1-2pm Lunch break
2pm Introduction to the afternoon from Dean BCI Professor Anne Luce
2-3.30pm - Impact Presentations and Performance
Dr Henry Bell and Dr Stephen Collins, The Decentered Shakespeares Network: international practice / local impact.
Dr Jo Collinson-Scott, Songs for Social Change – Impact from Distant Voices (ESRC) and Caring Scotland (YMI/National Theatre of Scotland). With live performance of songs from Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) and Jo Collinson Scott.
3.30-4.30pm Riverside Research Walk
Ends
Where is it happening?
Ayr Campus, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), University Avenue, Ayr, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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