Agata Lulkowska - Researcher, filmmaker, photographer

Interdisciplinary creative practice researcher with a background in film, photography and multimedia arts. Founder of the Rebellious Research Seminar Series for creative practice researchers, co-host of the Taming Your Inner Artist Podcast, and Founder and Director of the Communities and Communication Conference and Festival. Directof of the C3 Research Centre, Practice as Research group lead, Executive Committee Member at BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies), a vice chair of the MeCCSA Practice Network (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association), Editor of the International Journal of Creative Media Research and editorial board member of Media Practice and Education journal. I am also a former Artistic Director and Head of Programming at the Discovering Latin America Film Festival. Shortlisted for AHRC Research in Film Awards 2021, recipient of the International Award for Excellence for The Journal of Communication and Media Studies (June 2020). Currently appointed as an Associate Professor of Film and Creative Practice Research at Staffordshire University, and actively contributing to the positive culture around supporting practice-based research in filmmaking and other creative media (including extensive practice research PhD supervision). Experienced Research Ethics Coordinator and a steering member of the Diversity and Decolonisation Group. Recent publications include a monograph, Filmmaking in Academia. Upcoming publications: Fiction Filmmaking as Research, and book series on Creative Practice Research in the Arts, Intellect.