Menu ABOUT We aim to develop and produce creative and innovative research as a core activity within Bath Spa's School of Creative Industries. As today’s media industries become steadily transformed by social movements like #MeToo – with public debate and policy increasingly recognising interrelationships between issues of gender, the environment, and the media – it is crucial that film and media play a significant role in rethinking the media as a force for change. The Centre for Media Research instils precisely this thinking in its approach to research excellence and innovation. Based in the School of Creative Industries and comprising staff from its subject areas of Film, Media and Computing and Digital Creativity, the Centre puts film, media and computing at the heart of social, community and environmental dynamics that affect daily life. Its core membership brings together media artists and researchers, filmmakers, game and app developers, and well as researchers from Sociology, Theatre and Heritage. Our aims Multi-perspectival collaboration Creative research Creative enterprise Research funding Postgraduate community “The unit’s research strategy until 2030 focuses around the development of excellence and innovation in socially engaged media research. We aim to creatively rethink what film, media and computing can achieve in diverse communities, driving forward innovative approaches to collaboration across theory and practice, public engagement, and community/industry impact.” Clusters The Centre operates around three distinct research clusters, each of which serve as smaller collaborative hubs whose objectives are defined and overseen by different members. Digital Ecologies Film and Social Context Play and Multiplatform Process In order to facilitate our research activity, the Centre runs a highly innovative three-stage ‘research production process’ for driving forward collaborative projects that encompass socially engaged collaboration across theory and practice, public engagement, and impact. The first stage in the strategy is Thinking Out Loud, our work-in-progress seminar series (led by Dr Jamie Steele), where researchers pitch ideas for and gain feedback on new research projects. The second stage is We Make Stuff, our Centre-led public engagement event series (led by Public Engagement Champion, Claire Levy), where up to 50 people from the local creative sector are invited to engage and collaborate with our research. The third and final stage is Let’s Make Stuff, our-Centre led hackathon series (led by Centre co-directors, Dr Matthew Freeman and Dr Charlie Tweed), which sees staff and students working with a creative industry partner to prototype research-led media content. An example of this Centre-led activity includes our partnership with Bathscape, a Heritage Lottery-funded organisation who attended an earlier We Make Stuff event about new ways of using multiplatform media to narrate stories of place and community. Staff and students then came together for a two-day Let’s Make Stuff hackathon at Bath City Farm in 2019 to prototype research-informed film, 360-degree video and social media content, all of which was published on the Bathscape website. You might also be interested in RESEARCH CENTRES MIX CONFERENCE CCCI SCHOOL OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES Edit section | Website feedback to web@bathspa.ac.uk