Agata Lulkowska Interdisciplinary Arts/Practice Researcher
Dr Agata Lulkowska is a photographer and filmmaker, currently an Associate Professor of Film and Creative Practice Research at University of Staffordshire.
Founder of the Rebellious Research Seminar Series for creative practice researchers, co-host of the Taming Your Inner Artist Podcast, and a former artistic director of the Discovering Latin America Film Festival. She is also a vice chair of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and a vice chair of the MeCCSA Practice Network (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association), co-editor of the International Journal of Creative Media Research and editorial board member for Journal of Creative Research Methods and StoryLab Conversation.
Recent publications include a monograph, Filmmaking in Academia (2024, Routledge), Taming your inner artist – creative practice research as a form of conceptual art (of jazz players of academia) (2024, Media Practice and Education), or a special issue on Black sheep of academia? - Recontextualising Creative Practice-based Research, (2022, The International Journal Of Creative Media Research), Rebellious Academia – “The Potential of Creative Practice Research” - Collaborative Experimental Provocation for Rethinking History, and Responsibility of representation – ethics of transcultural filmmaking practices (a chapter in an edited collection: The Ethics of Documentary Film, EUP). Upcoming publications include: Fiction Filmmaking as Research (Routledge, an edited collection co-edited with Lee-Jane Bennion-Nixon), book series on Creative Practice Research in the Arts, Intellect, a photo essay chapter: Geography of the Image: ‘Between Here and There.’ And ‘Out of context – place, transcultural communication, decolonialism, and John Berger (a chapter in an edited book on Geography with John Berger, Lexington), (In: Geography and John Berger. Lexington).
