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Global Lives

The First Step or Short Vision?: The Influence of the British Film Institute on British Women’s Filmmaking
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Duration: October 2023 - October 2026

Techne AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Research Award

Gaming Censorship
Funder: British Academy
Duration: September 2023 - September 2025
Brunel Research Initiative and Enterprise Fund
Funder: Brunel University London
Duration: -
Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership � Studentship - ISABEL SYKES
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: October 2022 - March 2026
Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership � Studentship Amna Nasir
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: April 2022 - September 2025
Designing Hybrid Mixed Reality/Heritage Performance Experiences to Support Decolonisation of Heritage Sites
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: April 2022 - March 2024
Designing Hybrid Mixed Reality/Heritage Performance Experiences to Support Decolonisation of Heritage Sites
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: March 2022 - February 2024
Policy recommendations from a hyper-local coastal community case study within Margate
Funder: British Academy
Duration: February 2022 - May 2022

An exploration of entrepreneurial attempts to tackle existing digital poverty and inequalities and the impacts of cooperation between disparate communities on sustainable economic resilience necessary for COVID recovery in the decade ahead.

Digital poverty in Margate: a study of two hyperlocal communities
Funder: British Academy
Duration: January 2022 - December 2022

This report presents the findings of an in-depth, qualitative study of digital poverty from the perspectives of two hyperlocal communities in the UK seaside town of Margate. Specifically, the study examined members of the Roma and Creative Diaspora.

Educational Innovation Brunel-Tampere
Funder: Seed-corn funding: Educational Innovation Brunel-Tampere
Duration: September 2020 - August 2021

Developing and piloting an international remote design model to boost interdisciplinary co-learning, motivation and creativity.

AHRC-FUNDED techne STUDENTSHIP - J Nijjar
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: October 2019 - October 2024
Ambiguity controversy and the politics of marginal religiosity in black metal
Funder: Leverhulme Trust
Duration: September 2019 - August 2022
A framework for designing Mixed Reality situated learning experiences in cultural heritage sites
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: May 2019 - January 2020
‘Beyond a Joke’: Comedy and Critical Thought
Funder: Brunel University London: Research Seminar Series Award
Duration: October 2018 - May 2019

Seminar Series

Visiting Researcher
Funder: Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, Exeter University
Duration: June 2018 - June 2018

Research into Gavrik Losey's and Don Boyd's work at EMI, via their personal papers held at the museum.

Investigate Tudors
Funder: Brunel University - Student Success Project
Duration: May 2018 - August 2018

A game to help HE students develop note-taking skills.

Televising Childbirth
Funder: Wellcome Trust
Duration: -
From Script to Screen
Funder: Brunel University
Duration: January 2016 - December 2016

Production of a short film and the creation of an online module in filmmaking

Make Your Own Film Heritage
Funder: Film London
Duration: October 2015 - March 2016

Research into the history of amateur filmmaking in Hillingdon

Calling the Tune: EMI on Film
Funder: Film London
Duration: January 2013 - July 2013

Research into the history of films produced at the EMI factory in the 1930s, including the first ever examples of stereo sound on film.

Watching One Born
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
Duration: October 2011 - April 2015

PhD funding

Sun, Sea, Sand and Silicone
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
Duration: September 2011 - March 2014

Explores cosmetic surgery and medical tourism from the UK to Eastern Europe and North Africa, from Australia to East Asia and from China to South Korea.

The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: Analyzing the role of humour in racism
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
Duration: April 2009 - March 2010

Postdoctoral Fellowship