- Title
- Filmmaking research network: surveying films, peers and creative practice
- Creator
- Kerrigan, Susan; Verdon, James
- Relation
- Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media Vol. 33, Issue October 15 2019
- Relation
- https://refractoryjournal.net/filmmaking-research-network-surveying-films-peers-and-creative-practice/
- Publisher
- Screen and Cinema Studies, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The Filmmaking Research Network (FRN) project commenced in 2016, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) with an aim to better define filmmaking research in the UK and Australian sectors, and to share information about how filmmaking researchers work. Activities to date include two workshops, conference panels and presentations, film screenings and an online survey collecting' activities. This paper presents and discusses key survey results and provides details regarding the capacity of filmmaking research or, as it is often referred to in Australia, screen production research (Batty and Kerrigan). The survey generated 168 responses from academics at 112 institutions across 24 countries. An overwhelming majority of respondents agreed that their filmmaking is a research activity, with two-thirds declaring that the status of filmmaking research inside their institution has improved over the past decade. More than half of the respondents were part of a peer network conducting research activities, including doctoral supervisions and examinations, and peer-reviewing of journals, books and funding body activities. Capacity and activity for post-graduate supervision was strong, with more than half of the respondents having supervised post-graduate students across their careers, including successful doctoral completions, and a third having examined more than five doctorates. The survey also collected information about research films for a Film Register. There were 152 films submitted by 130 filmmakers. Notably, traditional research outputs were generated from 40% of these films and a clear majority of researchers submitted an accompanying research statement. Survey data indicate that the sector is relatively small when compared to other creative disciplines although the quality of the research, as assessed by the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment exercises in comparative fields, does achieve international standing. Although these results indicate that there are high-quality research activities being conducted in the sector, it is clear that more capacity is needed for both countries' research excellence assessments. This paper interrogates these qualitative results to draw out detailed descriptions as to what can be learnt about the activities and capacity of the screen production sector operating within the academy. This qualitative information may also be useful to filmmaking researchers requiring evidence of the research field's activities.
- Subject
- filmmaking research; survey; peer-reviewing; creative practice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1461235
- Identifier
- uon:46144
- Identifier
- ISSN:1447-4905
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
- Hits: 1976
- Visitors: 925
- Downloads: 0
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format |
|---|