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Karen Patel is an Associate Professor in Media and Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the College of English and Media. Karen’s research interests lie in the broader field of cultural studies, with a particular focus on creative industries, cultural policy and cultural labour. Karen’s research has addressed issues such as diversity and inequalities in craft work, cultural workers’ use of social media, socially engaged craft and the fringes of the craft ecology, the effect of AI on artistic identity and more recently the intersectional political economy of platforms. Karen is author of Craft as a Creative Industry (Routledge, 2024) and The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work, Inequalities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). She is on the Board of Culture Central and is a member of the Community Advisory Board of the Goldsmiths Centre.
Annette Naudin is Associate Professor with responsibility for Learning and Teaching at Birmingham Institute for Media and English, at BCU. Annette’s research is concerned with inequalities and the challenges faced by creative and cultural entrepreneurs, the relationship to cultural policy, to place and to higher education. Recently, Annette was awarded a British Academy / Leverhulme Small Grant for a project entitled Gender Equality: 40 years on! which included curating an exhibition, producing oral history podcasts and roundtable discussions.
Panayiota has been research-active for more than a decade and her research lies in the broader field of digital media research. Panayiota’s research has addressed phenomena concerning Internet studies and digital/Internet research, and her work has explored various facets of digital divides/digital inclusion, as well as topics and case studies concerning digital media and civic activism, children and the Internet, gender and the Internet, and digital policy and regulation. Panayiota’s recent projects have explored the digital inclusion/exclusion of vulnerable people and have aimed to contribute to innovative and evidence-based solutions to issues arising in vulnerable people’s relationships with digital media.
Dr Matt Grimes is course director for Music Business and his research interests lie in the broader fields of music industries, music business, DIY music cultures, music entrepreneurship and innovation. Alongside this, his research explores ageing within music cultures, with a focus on ageing identities, memory and nostalgia. Matt also co-manages the current BCMCR research theme (2024-26) on transgressive identities and subjectivities. Matt is a Keychange advocate, supporting their campaign for gender balance within the European music industries, through his course content and industry collaborations. He also works with a number of businesses, organisations and entrepreneurs within the music industries that have a focus on inclusion and supporting marginalised groups and communities.
Dr Gemma Commane is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the Birmingham School of Media. She has always been interested in culture, voices, and marginalisation. Her research specialisms include dangerous femininities, feminist cultural studies, ethnography, sexual cultures, and queer studies. She leads a range of core and optional theory modules on the BA in Media and Communication and supervises a range of PhD research projects on the Media and Cultural Studies PhD programme. Gemma is research active and her research informs her teaching practice. Gemma’s first monograph ‘Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Femininity’, was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. She is one of the founding members of Bean Flicks (BCU academics in ADM, HELS, and BLSS), Birmingham’s first and only queer and ethical feminist porn festival. She co-wrote a successful funding application for the BFI Film Hub Midlands Pitch Pots. BFI Film Hub Midlands Pitch Pots awarded us £2,000 to fund the launch of Bean Flicks: Ethics and Desires, 2020 at CENTRALA. Gemma is the Deputy Co-Chair of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media Academic Ethics Committee.
Dr Yemisi Akinbobola is a Senior Lecturer and Research Degrees Coordinator for CoEM. Her research interests are in African Feminism(s) and media in Africa, particularly the intersections of Women's Rights and Media, and Media and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda. She has an emerging interest in gender, media and AI. Yemisi is the co-founder of African Women in Media (AWiM), an international non-governmental organisation and annual conference, which aims to impact positively the way media functions in relation to African women. She hosts two podcast series, including 'Her Media Diary', in which she interviews leading African women working in media industries, capturing their lived experiences and career journey. The podcast resulted in a book chapter titled ‘Podcasting African Women: Lived Experiences and Empowerment’. Her work at AWiM as led to her contributing to conferences and policy, and her first monograph which is in production. She recently completed a research report on the Barriers to Women Journalists in Ethiopia with a $5,000 funding from Fojo Media Institute’s Ethiopia Media Programme. She is a member of the Faculty EDI Committee and the College of English and Media EDI committee. In 2021, Yemisi was recognised as one of the 100 Most Influential African Women.
Dr. Nazlı Alimen is an educator and researcher based in the School of Fashion and Textiles at Birmingham City University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on contexts outside the West, as well as on people of the Global Majority in the West, with research interests in historical and contemporary fashion and dress, consumer cultures, and marketing and management in creative industries. She is the author of Faith and Fashion in Turkey: Consumption, Politics and Islamic Identities (Bloomsbury, 2018) and has published widely in scholarly journals and edited volumes on fashion, dress, religion, gender, and consumer culture. Nazlı’s current research, funded by the AHRC, explores sustainability and equitability in traditional Indian textiles and crafts sectors.
Sana Ali is a visiting lecturer in Journalism and Scriptwriting at British Creative Institute. Her research interests include Child Abuse, Children and New Media, Digital Education, Children's Rights, LGBT Rights, Women and Media, and Human Rights in Contemporary Societies. Her PhD is now being completed at Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, Pakistan. She focuses on social constructivism and highlights how traditional South Asian culture is represented by media, shaping attitudes and aggravating the marginalization of vulnerable groups.
Indy Hunjan is founder of Kala Phool, a collaborative studio which develops and delivers a range of projects which take place domestically and internationally. Working in partnership for a mutual outcome is rooted Indy’s work to bring equality of access to all. She has worked extensively with marginalised creative communities (Mela, Hip Hop) in the UK seeing them thrive from her provocations and advocacy. Her most recent work has been with the National Trust working across the contemporary art programme, exploring new ways of working and challenging the cultural structures in place. Indy has presented work across the globe whilst remaining as free of systems and structures as possible.
Lara Ratnaraja is an independent Cultural Consultant who specialises in culture and diversity, innovation, leadership, collaboration, and cultural policy and placemaking within the cultural, higher education and digital sectors.
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