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 […]

A short introduction, written with Toby Burrows, on the new iteration of the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) platform. This new iteration enables visitors to take advantage of the platform’s graph searching capabilities. Network graphs, those familiar spiderweb images of interconnection, are a powerful way of uncovering the meaning and significance of the knowledge embedded in cultural collections. This article describes how some of these features work in HuNI. Continue…

The Cinema and Audiences Research Project (CAARP) database is an online encyclopaedia of cinema-going in Australia and aims to promote research into, and a deeper appreciation of, the history of film exhibition and cinema going in Australia. CAARP holds information about film-related events, capturing where and when individual screenings took place and the relationship between film distribution, […]

TUGG stands for The Ultimate Gig Guide and it tracks the history of the live music scene in Melbourne from organised dance hall events, to discos and the thriving pub music scene of today. On TUGG you will find data about: 7500+ gigs 600+Venues at over 500 locations 1500+ Bands and performers Maps of where the […]

Kinomatics: The Industrial Geometry of Culture The Kinomatics Project collects, explores, analyses and represents data about the creative industries. Our research is collaborative and interdisciplinary. Our current focus is on the spatial and temporal dimensions of international film flow and the location of Australian live music gigs. The Kinomatics Project collects, explores, analyses and represents […]

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BONZA is an online collection of national cinema databases (to date French, Australian and New Zealand) prepared by film researchers and students. bonza is also an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn film research by doing the work – investigating, evaluating, and publishing – of a film scholar and by actively connecting their […]

HuNI is a new research and discovery platform developed by and for humanities and creative arts scholars. HuNI: Helping Humanities Researchers Get Lucky from Bestqualitycrab on Vimeo. The Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) is a national Virtual Laboratory project developed as part of the Australian government’s NeCTAR (National e-Research Collaboration Tools and Resources) program. HuNI combines […]