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Projects
In my role as Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics at University of Alberta I get to work with a lot of amazing people and inventive ideas.
After a three years of intensive research the final report for our study investigating the impact of gender equity policies (GEP) in the Canadian, German and UK film industry is out and I’m not going to lie – its a sobering read. The pace of change is at best glacial and uneven. Most current policy […]
As the Gender Equity Policies (GEP) project kicks off this month, I have been interviewed by FF2 Media and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada about the immediacy of this work. In my interview with Katusha Jin, we discussed the importance of looking at the issue of gender inequity in film […]
December 8th, 2020 it was officially announced that I have been awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant to fund the Gender Equity Policies (GEP) Analysis project alongside international collaborators Professor Skadi Loist (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF-Germany), Professor Doris Ruth Eikhof (University of Glasgow-UK), Professor Elizabeth Prommer (University of Rostock-Germany) and […]
Recent appearance on The Screen Show podcast November 5, 2020 where I discuss the origins of the body swap film, right back to the beginnings of cinema, to recent film festival favourites and Japanese animation. I also share my thoughts on U.S. comic Sarah Cooper, the woman who’s been using her own body to […]
