Agata Lulkowska

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Interdisciplinary creative practice researcher with a background in film, photography and multimedia arts. Founder of the Rebellious Research Seminar Series for creative practice researchers, co-host of the Taming Your Inner Artist Podcast, and Founder and Director of the Communities and Communication Conference and Festival. C3 Research Centre Director, Practice as Research group lead, Executive Committee Member at BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies), a vice chair of the MeCCSA Practice Network (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association), Editor of the International Journal of Creative Media Research and editorial board member of Media Practice and Education journal. I am also a former Artistic Director and Head of Programming at the Discovering Latin America Film Festival. Shortlisted for AHRC Research in Film Awards 2021, recipient of the International Award for Excellence for The Journal of Communication and Media Studies (June 2020). Currently appointed as an Associate Professor of Film and Creative Practice Research at Staffordshire University, and actively contributing to the positive culture around supporting practice-based research in filmmaking and other creative media (including extensive practice research PhD supervision). Experienced Research Ethics Coordinator and a steering member of the Diversity and Decolonisation Group. Recent publications include a monograph, Filmmaking in Academia. Upcoming publications: Fiction Filmmaking as Research, and book series on Creative Practice Research in the Arts, Intellect. ​

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Lecturer in Film Production, Staffordshire University

Education

  • 2018 
    Birkbeck, University of London, Practice-based PhD in film and Latin American Study
  • 2009 
    London Southbank University, 1st Honours Degree in Digital Media Arts
  • 2004 
    Jagiellonian University, MA in Film, Media and Communication
  • 2002 
    Silesian University, Film Department, MA in Film Direction (unfinished)

Publications

  • 2019
    Title: Voice of the Arhuacos: Transcending the Borders of “Indigenous” Filmmaking in Colombia, The Journal of Communication and Media Studies
  • 2018
    Intercultural communication and decolonial strategies in the Arhuaco filmmaking and collaborations, AnthroVision SI: Epistemic Disobedience: Transcultural and Collaborative Filmmaking as a Decolonial Option
  • 2005
    Sexuality and solitude in contemporary French cinema, ‘Reżyserki Kina. Tradycja i współczesność’

Professional Memberships

  • International Association For Visual Culture
  • LASA - Latin American Studies Association
  • SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies
  • WISPS - Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American Studies
  • AHGBI - Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland
  • Corkscrew – Practice-based research network at Birkbeck
  • Communications & Media Studies Research Network

Contact Agata for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision