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Hello everyone, Just a quick final reminder about the forthcoming symposium, Methodologies for Screen Industries Research, which will take place at Watershed in Bristol on January 15th 2020. The deadline for registration is midnight on this Friday 22nd. For more info and to register, please visit: https://info.uwe.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?id=24699, and see the programme below. Merry Christmas all! Steve 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. _______________________________________________________________________________ Dr Steve Presence Senior Lecturer in Film Studies Department of Arts and Cultural Industries Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education Frenchay Campus Coldharbour Lane Bristol BS16 1QY -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. 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