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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 ...

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...