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Climate Emergency Writer In Residence  800 words on why you want the role and what you’d like to achieve with it I was delighted to learn of this opportunity from my friend and colleague ___. I am a freelance writer, researcher and podcaster with a background in humanities academia. This residency offers an ideal chance for me to develop and hone my writing and research skills with a view to publishing for general audiences on important topics. The challenge of communicating pressing messages about the ecological emergency offers a testing ground for my communication skills – one for which I am ready and equipped. My academic interests centre around social change with emphasis on intersections between society, culture and politics. My PhD research examined ways that artists and filmmakers respond to ongoing issues stemming from conflict and their continuing implications in post-conflict society. Place and human interaction with landscape are recurrent themes, and are rooted in my l

I was delighted to learn of this exciting new programme assistant post with your organisation as it is just the opportunity I have been seeking for some time. As a creative freelancer and researcher based in Newcastle, I am keen to help facilitate the city and region’s cultural life while maintaining my own practice, and this part-time role offers the ideal chance to do so. As a podcaster and published author myself, I understand many of the challenges and tasks involved in the role as shown in my CV and detailed further in this statement. While the job specification lists no required or desired qualifications, I would like to point out the ways my tertiary qualifications have given me excellent training for the programme assistant role. Firstly, on a personal note, I am from a working-class background and my university attendance hinged on being awarded scholarships and bursaries due to my economically underprivileged upbringing. This has afforded me a high-quality arts and

Application for Lecturer in Film and Television Dear Prof. ___ and Selection Panel, I felt tremendously enthused when learning of this post as it is exactly what I am looking for to re-enter academia after a period away due to illness. As my CV indicates, my postgraduate studies involved a blend of film and visual culture and my subsequent research has been underpinned by concerns with convergences between different modes and practices in contemporary moving image production. Informed by these research specialisms, my teaching will be a great asset to the Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media. Knowledge of television has figured significantly in my research on contemporary film, visual culture and moving image production, largely in the ways artists and film-makers engage with television archives. This is the focus of my article currently under review at Screen which compares the ways historical narratives of real events in 1980s Chile and Northern Irela

Writer In Residence In the past couple of years I have been transitioning from an academic career to becoming an active contributor to cultural production who troubles and teases the boundaries between the creative and the critical. As my CV indicates, I do so through my Audiovisual Cultures podcast and in continued writing projects aimed at broader audiences than my previous academic output. Since 2013 I have pursued an interest in various forms of written and verbal documentation of live performance art, and am interested in finding ways of capturing and articulating the live experiences of spectators during arts and culture events. As shown in my writing sample from my recent residency responding to the Yorkshire Sculpture International engagement programme (due for online publication in late September), I experimented with poetic and direct address approaches to capture the liveness of the workshops I attended and the diversity amongst the participants. In using s