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CLIMATE CHANGE NETWORK
| Luca Antoniazzi | Eco-food documentaries in Northwestern Italy: Culture,Food, and Identities |
| Cara Bamford | Team Green: Seeking Sustainability in CollaborativeFilmmaking |
| Christopher Chadwick, Daniel Turner, Lau Jamero and MiguelEsteban | Racing the King Tide |
| Nazife Ebru Güney | Identity and Belonging in Cli-fi Cinema |
| Victoria Esteves | Identities of denial in the age of climate crisis |
| Claire Evans | Not always perfect but wearable: embracing wonky clothingto reduce fashion waste |
| Evripidis Karydis | Trash Walk |
| Jelena Krivosic | Attenborough: hero, environmental advocate, climate actioninfluencer? |
| Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau | How Art Can Help Us Save the Planet |
| Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Idrees | The Need for Advocacy Frames in Decolonizing Global ClimateCommunication: A Case Study of Climate Journalism in
Pakistan |
| Doug Specht | Media, Risk, and Resilience: Examining the INFORM RiskIndex in Climate Crisis Communication |
| Kirsty Styles and Elsie Roderiques | Workshop (60 minutes): Values in the media: Understandingour cultural values and exploring how these may appear in
our work |
| Tara Thomson | Animal Intelligence and Ecological Belonging in JerzySkolimowski’s EO |
| Photini Vrikki | Digital Sovereignty vs. Climate Responsibility: The EU’sData Center Dilemma |
DISABILITY STUDIES NETWORK
| Nicole Brown | “You’re the one that plays with LEGO®”: The piths andperils of activist practice research |
| Lynda Clark | The Sound of My (?) Voice: Identity and AI Vocal Synthesis |
| Harriet Fuest | How people with ME/CFS use cyberspace to mediate theirsuffering |
| Sih-Ying Hsieh | Reimagining Dementia Care: Art Practices, Citizenship, andLiteracies in Taiwan |
| Ngozi Marion Emmanuel | Examining the Role of Documentary Films in FacilitatingPositive Disability Identity and Belonging. |
| Iona Murphy | Creating community through Yorkshire’s Heritage: a holistichumanities approach to working with service users with
learning disabilities |
| Pratibha Ram | Healthcare and Identity: Addressing Systemic Inequities forVulnerable Individuals |
GIRLS STUDIES AND WOMENS NETWORK
| Laura Bower | Breaking the victim-survivor binary wide open: exploringhow ethnicity, gender and disability can fall through the
cracks in identity research of people with lived experiences of violence and abuse. |
| Lin Cheng and Lin Cheng | Exploring the subjectivity of Chinese female art in thepractice of self-expression: taking ancient Chinese female
painters and my artistic practice as a comparative case |
| Yiran Cheng | A Critical Discourse Analysis of Yellow Rumors: A CaseStudy of the Pink-haired girl event |
| Sarah Lahm | Women Replace Themselves: Parallel Realities and FragmentedIdentities on Contemporary TV |
| Eleanor Milne | Bedroom Culture and Shakespeare: Scrapbooks, Social Media,and Identity Aesthetics |
| Michele Paule, Nathalie Weidhase, Maike Dinger and IsabelSykes | Panel proposal: ‘I girlbossed too hard’: Gender, Labour,Visibility and Identity |
| Davinia Thornley | Learning to Float: Trauma, Auto-Ethnography, and StandpointTheory via “Days of Happiness” (dir. Chloe Robichaud, 2023) |
| Christa Van Raalte, Frances Pheasant-Kelly, Jenny Alexanderand Helena Bassil-Morozow | Action Heroines in the 21st Century: Sisters in Arms (PanelProposal) |
| Lily Wu | Far from Slacktivism: Risks and Strategies of Participatingin Chinese MeToo in China and from Abroad |
| Hanqi Yang | Cultural Identity and Memory in Media Representation:Comfort Women in Chinese Cinema |
| Altman Yuzhu Peng and Nicole Talmacs | A discourse-historical approach to the co-construction of agender-state entanglement in canonical Three Kingdoms fandom |
LOCAL AND COMMUNITY NETWORK
| Ant Adkins, Ant Adkins and Ant Adkins | Sonic Aliveness: The Brilliance of Planetary Being |
| Ilhem Allagui | Building Identity and Belonging in Populist Nations |
| Carol Arnold | Constructing identity one story at a time: communitybuilding local media initiatives |
| Fotios Begklis | The ‘Strangers’ home – If you don’t tell your story,someone else will tell it for you. |
| William Burton | Queen Elizabeth’s passing, balance and identity in NorthernIreland |
| Yiran Cheng | Purify or Pollute the Opinion Field? -A Critical DiscourseAnalysis of Individual and State Media Accounts on Weibo
about the “20 New Guidelines” |
| Hatana El-Jarn | The Veiled Selfie: Performing Identity in Digital Spaces |
| Hasmik Gasparyan | Documentary: My Voice Journey |
| Mariana Gomes | Beyond news production: Citizen journalism as civicinfrastructure in marginalized communities |
| Agnes Gulyas, Dave Toomer, Francesca Tampone, GiovanniRamos and Dave Harte | Local journalism in transition: community, gaps, andchallenges |
| Dave Harte, Brian Martin, Richard Jones and Tabassum Islam | Panel: Narratives of place, identity and representation inlocal media |
| Jernej Kaluža | Peripheral Identities and Local Creators at Risk? MediaRegulation and the Future of Small Linguistic Communities |
| Aleksandar Kocic | Is there still a role for local radio in community building? |
| Rachel Matthews | Using the local newspaper archive to articulate our placein the world |
| Hollie Price | Four Corners Film Workshop: Experimenting with SocialRealist Traditions and Community Cinema in London’s East End |
| Jalal Rahim and Muhammad Sharif | Political Dynamics of Balochistan, Demographic Changes, andForced Migration of Native Baloch in District Gwadar: A
Case Study of CPEC |
| Paul Rekret and Henry Ivry | Small-Scale Online Radio Stations: Developing a ConceptualFramework |
| Vladimir Rosas-Salazar | Reframing Home: Family Archives, Migration, andTransnational Identity |
| Mac Wang | Bittersweet Optimism in Deafening Silence: Chinese StudentLGBTQ+ Activism’s Polymedia Strategies to Address Online
Censorship |
| Myrtle Ziwei Zeng | “TikTok Refugees” and the Search for Digital Belonging:Identity, Ideology, and Platform Migration |
POLICY NETWORK
| Anke Fiedler and James Morrison | How do different models of media regulation influenceapproaches to social inequality: A comparative qualitative
analysis of key legal texts from Germany and the UK |
| Tiago Lapa | The Language of Populism: Discursive Strategies andAgenda-Setting on Chega and VOX’s Facebook accounts |
| Maria O’Brien | Engaged research and ethics: an incommensurable position |
| Vincent Obia | A Continent on the Margins: Analysing Approach(es) to AIPolicy and Regulation in Africa |
| Meccsa Policy Network | MeCCSA Policy Network Roundtable |
| Alison Preston | Mitigating Misinformation: understanding people’s habitsand attitudes |
POST GRADUATE NETWORK
| Giulia Astesani | The Dissent Tactics of Brigate Saffo: Polyvocal Lesbian andFeminist Histories as Sites for Contemporary Resiliance. |
| Karen Dickinson | Investigating the Blythe Duff archive: Representations ofwomen, the LGBTQ+ community and the city of Glasgow in the
popular TV series Taggart (STV 1983-2010) |
| Vegas Dyce | Living life through the lens: How ‘foodstagramming’ shapesdigital identity and belonging |
| Matthew Floyd | Barriers and belonging in British television: Discourses ondiversity at the Edinburgh International Television Festival |
| Avril Gray and Christoph Bläsi | “Young Professionals in Publishing – Expectations,Challenges, Chances”. An international collaboration
between two universities and Springer Nature to publish the first AI-generated book on the publishing industry. |
| Wei Jhen Liang | Youths’ Digital Literacy Practices and Identity: Exploringthe Intersections |
| Alžběta Kovandová-Bartoníčková | A Dying Fox Turns its Head to Home – multidisciplinaryexploration of the meaning of home in London |
| Yixiang Li | Citywording: Haunting Characters in the Urban Spaces ofHong Kong and Dung Kai-Cheung’s Hong Kong Type |
| William Muir-Kirk | Who are The Masters of the Universe? He-Man’s Negotiationof Masculinity within a Transforming Society. |
| Gil Sharon | TikTok and the reactionary right around the 2024 US election |
| Jayne Stynes, Rebecca Wallace and Ashley Stein | Barriers in Music: Change-making through pedagogicalpractices, institutional accountability and creative
expression |
| Ioan Suhov | New Dimensions of Identity and Belonging in RomanianPolitics and Media |
| Qiang Zhang | The Nomenclature of the ‘Islamic State’ in Chinese News:Media Representations and Politics of Naming |
| Yifan Zhao | When the Dead Speak Back: Digital Resurrection, Algorithmicphantasm and the Ontological Crisis of Digital Identities |
| Yifan Zhao | Ephemeral Epitaphs: Memory, Loss and the Recomposition ofidentity in Device Formatting Practices |
| Yifan Zhao | Why Do They Choose To Be Tomgirls? An Ethnographic Study ofChina’s Tomgirl Communities |
| Yifan Zhao | Memory production, forgetting malfunction, and thepatchwork identity of memorial pages: An ethnographic study |
PRACTICE NETWORK
| Shivangi Asthana and Shivangi Asthana | Faith, Politics, and Resistance – The Quest for ReligiousFreedom in India |
| Ana Rutter | how to ‘share’ the praxis….. |
| Sana Bilgrami | Diasporic Identity and Scottish Land/Cityscapes inDocumentary Film |
| Chris Birchall and Simon Popple | AI-imagined Spaces and Community-led Redevelopment ofHeritage Assets |
| Lee Cadieux | No Waves of Low Fi: Punk Experimentation in Video Art andSuper 8 |
| Nelson Correia | Building a National Screen Workforce: Scottish Filmmakersand the Late-20th-Century Drive for Self-Representation of
the ‘Film Bang’ Movement |
| Jill Daniels | Place, Identity and the Imagined Witness |
| Seána Dubh | The Other Edis: Exploring audiovisual concrète and theenvironmental uncanny within non-narrative work |
| Hakan Ergül and Nicole Brown | Writing the unwritten: Exploring GenAI, crises of identity,and emotional burden in higher education through Social
Fiction |
| Martinez-Pastor Esther, Miguel Nicolás-Ojeda and MarianBlanco-Ruiz | Digital Identity in Young People on Social Networks andHealth Risks |
| Magz Hall | Expanded Radio Research and Immersive Practice.Wastelands:Walleys Quarry. An Immersive radiophonic documentary |
| Roy Hanney | Rethinking Peer Review for Non-Screen and Non-Text-BasedCreative Practice Research |
| Sharon Hooper | Creative Practice as Community Building: Feminist SocialActivism and Resistance |
| Zoë Irvine | Conversations on Belonging: conversation recording andnonlinear, polyphonic composition as methodologies for
encounter in the 900 Voices project |
| Garrabost Jayalakshmi | Who am I?: The Experiences of a Diasporic Filmmaker |
| Sarah Kennedy-Parr | Can animating cultural artefacts reposition historicalevents within in a tradtional historical research framework. |
| Yanqi Liang | Intercultural Women Representation Through Animated ShortFilm Practice as Sensory Autoethnography |
| Yutong Lin | Youth Engagement in Opera: Key Challenges |
| Kirsten MacLeod and Lesley Ingram-Sills | How can media and arts practice support and promote greatersports participation for women and girls? |
| Kainaat Maqbool | Creative Method(s) of Resistance: Racial (Cyber)Bullying,Identity Politics, and Belonging for AfroGreek Youth |
| Kainaat Maqbool | Mapping Youth Narratives: An Interactive Workshop On Artand Creative Methods for Decolonial Research |
| Nariman Massoumi | Short film screening: POURING WATER ON TROUBLED OIL (2023,26 minutes) |
| Scott McLaughlin, Agata Lulkowska and Jenny Evans | [Round table] Future Paths for UK Practice Research: ARepository? |
| Holger Mohaupt and Tracey Fearnehough | Behind The Horizon |
| Regina Mosch | Opaque Bodies, Opaque Methods: Queerness, Trauma and VideoArt |
| Regina Mosch, Jess Orense and Rowan Quinn | Trust in Arts-Based Research |
| H. Natural Langdon | Surviving Whiteness: A documentary-practice led explorationof a Black PhD Student Experience in a Predominantly White
University |
| Alexander Nevill | Landscapes of belonging and exclusion: a practice-researchjourney around the UK’s borders. |
| Shreepali Patel | Preserving and Re-framing Identity and Belonging: surfacingencoded memory in inherited media archives and objects. |
| Lynne Rosenberg | Screening with Presentation & Talkback: Famous Cast Words |
| Alistair Scott | Un-hidden from history: examining how the re-discovery ofthe forgotten feminist photography of Franki Raffles and
the creation of archival access unlocked multiple areas for new research |
| Pavel Slutskiy | Virtual Team Collaboration: Lessons from GlobCom and GlobalPR Campaigns |
| Walter Stabb, Hadi Bastani and Natasha Bird | Exploring situated cultural heritage and belonging throughchild-centred sound/image and immersive storytelling. |
| Daniel Turner | Precious – Reclaiming Value From Personal Data |
| Brandon Walker | Flamenco, cultural identity and perception |
| Jillian Wallis and Walter Stabb | AMBITIOUS PANIC PROJECT: SCREENING OF 35 MINS. FOLLOWEDBY Q and A. |
| Michael Wamposzyc, Leo Philp and Michael Wamposzyc | From pen to pixels. Your handwriting in transition frompaper to screen. |
| Jing Wang | From Self-Video to People’s Cinema: Mediating Identitythrough User-Generated Documentary |
| Annie Watson | Bonjour Tristesse Reimagined |
| Jane Wilkinson, Sibylle Ratz, Linden Rennie Taylor andYuliia Vasylieva | Intercultural explorations of identity and belonging in thework of hospitality and integration |
RACE ETHNICITY AND POST-COLONIAL NETWORK
| Michael Austin | “New Romantics” or Old Discrimination: Race and Romance inTaylor Swift’s Music Videos |
| Veysel Bozan, Francesca Belotti, Simone Mulargia, FrancescaComunello and Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol | Tell me what you search for and I’ll tell you who you are.Stereotypical identities encoded in and reproduced by
generative AI chatbots. |
| Alia Carter | Colonial Archives in the UK and South Asian diasporaidentity and heritage |
| Lina Fadel, Katerina Strani and Jo Drugan | Work and the Nuanced Production of Migrant Identity: HighlySkilled Syrians in the UK |
| Ruth Garland | Racism, political branding and Rishi Sunak – how ananglicised online persona and biased storytelling were
punctured by a complex reality |
| Dr Idil Osman | Digital Technologies, African Diaspora Youth andCulture-Centred Development |
| Mita Lad | Gujarati-speaking British Indian Hindu Diasporic women’spleasure through the narrative and characters of Prime-time
Hindi language serials. |
| Max Mauro | Race, nation and sport in Italian media: The representationof Paola Egonu and Mario Balotelli. |
| Chiara Minestrelli | Indigenous Digital Futures: Disrupting Algorithmic Power inthe AI Era |
| Laura Mora | Transnational mediated solidarity with Palestine based onsituated interpretation |
| Muhammad Nabil | Mediatised digital memory of humanitarian crisis: A case ofRohingya refugees |
| Muhammad Sharif | Exploring Baloch Music and Art as Medium for Resistance andActivism In Balochistan, Pakistan |
| Naomi Smith | Constructing and (re)constructing indigenous Americanidentities in broadcast news media |
| Annalisa Toccara-Jones | Colonial Legacies and Digital Identity Narratives Among UKAdult Adoptees |
| Stefanie Van de Peer | Global Women’s Film Movements: from Legacies to Heritage |
| Sinuo Wang | Redefining Asian Masculinity: Tensions, Resistance, andNegotiations on Reddit |
RADIO STUDIES NETWORK
| Utsha Roy and Utsha Roy | Listening Through the Static- 1946 |
| Tareq Zeyad Mohammed | The poem Artificial Intelligence is a critical vision |
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS NETWORK
| Isidoropaolo Casteltrione | Tweeting for Solidarity: Social Media as a Catalyst forUnion Activism during the UCU Marking and Assessment
Boycott |
| Hal Conte | NFTs as an Art Movement— A retrospective look at a phase ofonline art |
| Julie Feng | Belonging, Solidarities, and Worldbuilding in StudentMovements for Palestinian Liberation |
| Dom Holdaway | Populist Screens. Political Structures of Feeling in andaround Fictional Film and TV |
| Chiadikaobi Ihuoma | Nigerian Social Media Influencer’s Feminist ContentStrategies for Effective Engagement with Audiences |
| Pablo Nabarrete Bastos | Impacts of the techno-aesthetic pattern of social mediaplatforms on the communication of ALBA Movimentos and Via
Campesina and possible alternatives to platformization |
| Pratibha Ram | Navigating Consumer Activism: Identity, Belonging, and theDuality of Impact |
| Paula Serafini | Claiming audiovisual sovereignty: work, memory and identityin Argentina’s film sector under Milei |
| Maire Tracey | Documenting belonging and ownership in urban space |
| Felicity Wilcox | Reclaiming opera for women and gender minorities throughprocess and practice. |
| Anna Zsubori | Famous and Foe: Social media activism and resistance amongLGBTQ+ influencers in an illiberal regime |
SOUND STUDIES NETWORK
| Melissa Avdeeff | Humanizing the Algorithm: Community and Belonging in AIPopular Music |
| Jacob Danson Faraday | Labour, Mobility, and Value on Large-Scale Music Tours |
OTHER
| Colin Alexander | It’s not “just a pop song”: A Critical Analysis of the BandAid at 40 media debate |
| Amanda Allen | Transmedia and the Forgotten Generation. Cantransmedia techniques be used to engage the older
generation, as part of a family audience? |
| Stephen Andriano-Moore | Messages of Fatherhood in the Complex Identities of Fathersof Sons versus Fathers of Daughters in New-Era Chinese
Sci-Fi Cinema |
| Victoria Antonio | Outsourcing Digital Intimate Labour |
| Angelica Barajas | “This Will Make a Man Out of You”: Testosterone Boostersand its Cultural Ties to Raced Masculinity |
| Helena Bassil-Morozow | Semiotic Shaping of Brand Identity on Social Media:Charlotte Tilbury on Facebook |
| Darren Berkland | The Invaluable Place of Mirrors within Media Studies |
| Susan Berridge | Collective Action: Community responses to reformingproduction practices in the UK screen industries |
| Richard Bramwell | Victim behaviour and trauma recovery: Representing blackBritish femininity in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You |
| Eva Cheuk-Yin Li | Deepfakes for Fun? Navigating Play, Ethics, and Creativityin Fan Interactions with AI |
| Mark Collington, Carla Abbott, Penelope Allen, Matt Petoeand David Nayagam | Constellations of Aesthetics – Developing Aesthetic VisualScenes with Retinal Prosthesis Patients |
| Burcu Dabak Özdemir | Migration and Cultural Memory: Audience Study of TurkishImmigrant Film Festival in Germany |
| Sara Davies | Dreaming the Between: an arts-based exploration into theeffects of migration on our memory and imagination |
| Maike Dinger, Darren Lilleker, James Morrison and AntjeGlueck | Marginalisation and belonging in deindustrialisedcommunities in England’s North |
| Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Marcela Pizarro, GholamKhiabany and Marcos Ortiz | Panel Title: Journalism in ruins: Dependency, power andresistance |
| Matthew Franks | Media, Theatre, Citizenship: Performing Identity withOfficial Messaging |
| Noam Gal and Ido Ramati | Post-digital memetics: The case of commemorative bumperstickers |
| Hiroko Hara | Cellphilming with digital youth: A participatory visualmethod for advancing diversity and belongingness |
| Matthew Hilborn | High Price Toupee: The Cost of Baldness in ContemporaryScreen Media |
| Margaret Hughes | Should we be acknowledging activism in journalismeducation: is it the way for journalism to challenge
growing authoritarianism? |
| Helen James | In memoir writing how can photographs and words creativelyfit together to offer insight into the experience of being
adopted? |
| Max Kandhola | The Embodiment of The Aging Make Body |
| Katarzyna Kosmala, Gareth Rice and Eleni Koumpouzi | Cultivating Belonging with Heritage: (Re)ActivatingWaterways through Crafts |
| Audrey Laing | Identity, belonging and place: An exploration of remoteScottish book festivals |
| Yunyi Liao | Engaging with User-Generated Nation Branding: Audience,Positionality, and Orientalist Gaze |
| Shuhan Lin | The ‘Postmemory Generation’ filmmakers in Chinese cinemaand their films’ representation of the historical trauma
during the Maoist past (1949-1976) |
| Susan Luckman, Michelle Phillipov and Alexander Beare | Artisanal Identity, the ‘theatrics of craft’ and peakonline storytelling |
| Anastasiya Maksymchuk | REENACTING TRAUMA: Working with Documentary Charactersthrough Fiction Film |
| Mandy Troeger and Dan Schiller | A brief NATO communications history |
| Sophie McCooey, Greg Nixon and Thomas McCooey | Developing AI literacy in journalism students |
| Haftor Medboe | Hvor En Var Baen – Places of Childhood |
| Tamires Oliveira | Frames of Belonging: Everyday Expressions of BrazilianIdentity on Instagram |
| Funke Osae-Brown | Through the Lens: Documentary Film as a Tool for ExploringIdentity and Belonging Among Nigerian Migrants in Scotland |
| Neil Percival | A career in TV: love affair, or abusive relationship? |
| Nahiyan Rashid | Embodied Masculinities: Masculine Identity in ContemporaryFitness Culture |
| Paul Reilly | The Blame Game? Social media and affective ritualisedresponses to civil disorder in divided societies |
| Paul Reilly, Catherine Happer, Cairsti Russell and GavinHawkton | Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: a GlasgowUniversity Media Group panel |
| Matthew Robinson | ‘We Need to Hear Your Voice!’ Silence, Rhetoric and FemaleAgency in the British Biopic |
| Giovanna Santaera | The National Science and Media Museum and the Challenges ofGlocal Media Museums’ Histories |
| Corey Schultz | Auteurial Identity, Auteurial Sites: The PingyaoInternational Film Festival |
| Saheed Ibrahim and Rukayat Taiwo | “Our lecturers don’t know how”: Examining Fact-CheckingCompetence among Journalism Students in Nigeria |
| Sana Bilgrami | Test Abstract |
| Dafydd Sills-Jones | Where does Virtual Production belong in Higher Education?:Balancing Technology-Enhanced Learning with Pedagogical
Freedom and Institutional Challenges |
| Tamara Spitzer Hobeika | How campaign software mediates citizen identity |
| Ruth Stoker and Beth Parkes | Designing learning programmes for journalists and mediaworkers in dispersed and diverse spaces: an Impress case
study |
| Kirsty Styles and Elsie Roderiques | Presentation: Values in the media: How cultural valuesshape media content – and how media content shapes cultural
values |
| Liza Tsaliki, Despina Chronaki and Olga Derzioti | Selfie Pedagogies: Audience Reception of Sexual/SensualSelfies |
| Rosana Vivar | Assembling Festival Memories: Narratives of Belonging andSurvival in Rural Galicia |
| Nathaniel Weiner | Imaginative Geographies of Britishness, HistoricisedSubcultures and the National Past: British Heritage
Menswear’s Branded Content on Instagram |
| Shirley Xue Yang | “The Chinese Daughter with a Westernized Life”: NavigatingQueer Invisibility and Feminist Resistance Online |
| Hantian Zhang | When things go wrong: Exploring YouTube influencers’ crisismanagement practices for their branded products |