Researchers and Articles

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From Community to Classroom - The Expectancy of Creativity and Digital Media; A Practitioners Perspective
Emma Agusita

The purpose of this work is to research the expectations and experiences of digital media practitioners working in traditions of informal education in the context of partnership work with schools with the remit of collaboratively fostering creative use of digital media through production activity.
Essay, click here - (pdf)

Beyond Project: Working towards a definition of the Community Media sector, and exploring ways of charting its impact and sustainability.
Shawn Naphtali Sobers

To view a range of papers I have been writing in the process of my PhD research looking into Community Media, (including the setting up of this website),
please
click here

Digital Media & Society: Creative Learning
Gemma Price

This essay explores the rationale behind filmmaking initiatives with schools, and examines as a case study residencies in primary schools funded by Creative Partnerships, and discusses the impact such work will have.

MA in European Cinema Studies
Bath University
Essay, click here (pdf)

What is educational about arts activities?
Ruth Jacobs

What is educational about arts activities? This dissertation attempts to find out by studying a small group of adult learners engaged in a community photography project in Bristol.
Essay, click here - (pdf)

Moving Image Education Case Studies
Cathy Poole / South West Screen

South West Screen recently put together some good practice case studies for moving image education in the South West. These case studies were put together with the help of many schools, companies and organisations around the region. They showcase a range of innovative and exciting projects involving young people, and projects which demonstrate how moving image can transform learning.
 

Please click here to download a PDF version of case studies.
ffi please contact: info@swscreen.co.uk

NESTA Futurelab
Learning research programme which evaluates the impact of technology on learning and teaching, and publishes the learning outcomes of new educational prototypes. They support their partners by involving children, teachers, and parents in the research and development process. They maintain a pool of shareable knowledge and resources, and present their findings at conferences across Europe. Unconstrained by current curricula and practices, they are developing new ways of exploring the role of digital media in learning.

To visit website, click here

Culture South West - Research Group
Research Officer - Noreen Orr

Research is vital in establishing a clear picture of the cultural life of the region and in providing a knowledge base for policy development and planning. Culture South West sets out a clear intention to support the building of this knowledge base through a strong commitment to cultural sector research. To visit website, click here

Community Information Systems Centre (CISC) at UWE

The Community Information Systems Centre (CISC) is interested in the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in communities of all kinds. Our focus is on the understanding, use, development, impact and evaluation of these technologies in different contexts of use.

To visit website, click here

Welcome to SouthWestID

SouthWestID is an expanding on-line library of information about South West England. It has been set up by the South West Observatory to help promote the use of evidence in the region's policy making, and is also a resource for business, schools, students and the general public. It contains both narrative and numerical data.
To visit website, click here
Community Media: A Comparative Study
Dr. Isabelle Rigoni - email: I.Rigoni@warwick.ac.uk
Description, click here
Radio: What is the special significance of community media to civil society?
Article. click here
Evaluating Community Based Media Initiatives:
An Ethnographic Action Research Project
Jo Tacchi, Don Slater and Peter Lewis
Paper, click here

Research into Young People's Screening Events - 2004
Suited and Booted Community Video / South West Screen
Report, click here

Community Media in Transition
Javnost - The Public, Vol 10, Number 1, 2003
Abstracts, click here

An Evaluation of Alternative Education Initiatives
Sally Kendall, Kay Kinder, Karen Halsey,
Charlotte Fletcher-Morgan, Richard White, Celia Brown
National Foundation for Educational Research
Dfes Report (pdf), click here

How to evaluate education initiatives
Dfes
Report (pdf), click here

Do community-based arts projects result in social gains?
A review of literature

Tony Newman, Katherine Curtis and Jo Stephens report for Barnardos
Report, click here

Digital Video Report / Research Portal for Research Organisations
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta)
Website, click here

Source Watch - a project for the Centre of Media & Democracy
Article on the MacBride Commission, click here

A 12-Step Program for Media Democracy
Jeffrey Chester and Gary O.Larson
Article, click here

Arts - What's in a Word? - Ethnic Minorities and the Arts
The Arts Council of England
Report (pdf), click here

Government and the Value of Culture
Department for Culture, Media and Sport - Tessa Jowell, May 2004
Report (pdf), click here

Diversity and Inclusion
UK Film Council
Report (Bfi), click here
 
Critical Approaches to Culture, Communications and HyperMedia
Dr. Ron Burnett
Article, click here