I am the new Knowledge Content Producer at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). In response to the Grenfell Tower Disaster and ICE's 'In Plain Sight' report, our team has been tasked with delivering the organisation's updated education programme through a mixture of lectures, podcasts, videos and written learning packs.
I assist the online curation of the five-year project Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies, which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), and present guest lectures at SOAS, University of London.
I previously worked for The Location Guide (TLG) and its three brands: makers, TLG's bi-annual magazine for film and media production; makers and shakers Awards, a prize ceremony owned by TLG that celebrates the achievements of the global film production community; and FOCUS - The Meeting Place for International Production, the company's business conference.
I studied at UCL and SOAS. My masters thesis won the SOAS School of Arts Postgraduate Dissertation Prize, and I was awarded a three-year PhD research scholarship. I submitted my doctoral thesis on 15 September 2021, and successfully defended the paper on 13 December 2021 with no revisions or corrections.
My PhD research project - 'Kahlil Joseph, New Media and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music and Moving Images between Africa, America and Europe' - examines the films, music videos, advertisements and installations of interdisciplinary filmmaker Kahlil Joseph. The director has collaborated with musicians Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, FKA Twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha, Shabazz Palaces and Shafiq Husayn as well as fashion labels KENZO and Vans, frequently subverting the underlying Eurocentricity on which Western notions of modernity are constructed. I am passionate about turning my final doctoral project into a book.
