New Thinking: AHRC Research in Film Awards 2019

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🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Hetta Howes is on the red carpet at this year's AHRC Research in Film Awards at the British Film Institute on London's South Bank, where she talks to the winners: Laura Hammond of SOAS, Benjamin Dix of PositiveNegatives, and director Osbert Parker, who won Best Social Media Short for their film Life On The Move Shreepali Patel of StoryLab, Anglia Ruskin University, who won in theMental Health & Wellbeing category for The Golden Window Ed Owles of the University of Leeds and his producer Kasia Mika for Intranquilities, which won in the Best Doctoral or Early Career Film category. And Paul Basu whose film FACES/VOICES won the awards for Best Research Film. There are more details and links to the films at the RIFA website https://ahrc.ukri.org/innovation/research-in-film-awards/previous-winners/ This episode is one of a series of conversations - New Thinking - produced in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research & Innovation. Producer: Luke Mulhall

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0:40.3	Hello, you're listening to the Arts and Ideas podcast. I'm Heta Howes and this edition is part of our series New Thinking, looking at new research in UK universities.
0:47.3	And this is a very special edition because we're out of the studio and on the glitz and glamour of the red carpet at the Arts
0:54.5	and Humanities Research Council Research in Film Awards being held at the British Film Institute
1:00.5	at the South Bank in London. The champagne is flowing, everyone is looking incredibly well-dressed.
1:06.7	I've even spotted a faux fur stole that I'm very jealous of. And it's particularly exciting because we've got behind the scenes access for you today.
1:15.9	In a minute, the first award will be announced
1:18.7	and we'll be grabbing the winners one by one
1:20.8	and getting to ask them to tell us more about these fabulous films.
1:25.3	Usually on this podcast, we're used to interviewing people
1:28.0	who are publishing in journals or perhaps monographs, academic books. But today we're going
1:33.6	to be talking to researchers who found the best medium for communicating their research to be
1:38.2	film. We'll be finding out why that medium speaks to them as a researcher. What can they do in film? How can they tell
1:45.6	us more about their research through those images than through the sort of standard academic textbook or
1:51.0	journal? So the winner of the social media short award goes to Life on the Move. First up was the
2:00.7	winner in the social media short category.
2:03.7	Life on the Move is an innovative stop frame animation,
2:07.6	a collaboration between the London International Development Centre migration leadership team
2:12.9	at the School of Oriental and African Studies, or SOAS, at the University of London,
2:18.4	and the creative partnership, Positive Negatives.
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