Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Royal Holloway is one of the leading Media, Film and Television departments in the UK with an international reputation for the excellence of its research. We are a lively and diverse community of researchers working in a range of areas and employing a variety of theoretical, critical, historical and practice-based approaches. The research of the unit is focused on the analysis and practice of film, television, digital media and contemporary art. This includes specific interests in television history and technology, screen narrative, Hollywood, Asian and European cinemas, the representation of class, ethnicity and gender, cultures of celebrity and modernist art practices as well as the production of dramas, documentaries and installations. These research interests coalesce into three main research clusters: Television Culture, Screen Narrative and Identity and Place.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Rosaline Akintonwa
- Department of Media Arts - Lecturer in Producing for Film & TV
Person: Staff - Academic staff
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The VP Futures programme: a fractionated training environment for UK creative companies
Heath, C. P. R. & Richardson, P., 5 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Convergence.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Thinking through Film: Thinking through Film: Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinematic Practice
Dass, M., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Global Circulations of Film Theory. Cooper, S. & Sanogo, A. (eds.). Edinburgh University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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‘“[A] writer of murk”: Oswell Blakeston’s Obscurity’
Hember, P., Aug 2026, Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity & Early Twentieth Century British Literature. BloomsburyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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P3R: Performance, Participation, Provenance and Reward in Responsible AI
Parker-Starbuck, J. (PI), Saunders, W. (CoI), Lycett, M. (CoI) & Whittaker, L. (CoI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC
1/02/25 → 31/01/28
Project: Research
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CoSTAR: National R&D Lab for Creative Industries
Bennett, J. (PI), Ganz, A. (CoI), Richardson, P. (CoI), Parker-Starbuck, J. (CoI), Dalton, P. (CoI), Lycett, M. (CoI), Reppel, A. (CoI), Duarte Marques Barreiro, N. (CoI), Strange, N. (CoI) & Smyth, S. (CoI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC
1/10/23 → 31/03/29
Project: Research
Activities
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Inited research presentation at INHA, Paris: Post-socialist nostalgia and exoticism in The Road Home and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Berghahn, D. (Speaker)
8 Apr 2026Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Invited talk
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Invited research paper at INHA, Paris: Post-socialist nostalgia and exoticism in The Road Home and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Berghahn, D. (Speaker)
8 Apr 2026Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Invited talk
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Keynote Transnational Encounters with Cultural Difference in Exotic World Cinema
Berghahn, D. (Speaker)
1 Apr 2026 → 2 Apr 2026Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Invited talk
Prizes
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AHRC Postgraduate Studentship
Markaki, L. (Recipient), Oct 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Failla, T. (Recipient), 28 Jan 2026
Prize: Other distinction
Datasets
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Workshop outputs - October 29 2025 (Sheerwater rediscovered event)
Córdoba-Pachón, J.-R. (Creator) & Loureiro-Koechlin, C. (Creator), Royal Holloway, University of London, 1 Nov 2025
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