Dr Inge Sorensen
- Senior Lecturer (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
telephone:
01413303805
email:
Inge.Sorensen@glasgow.ac.uk
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She/her/hers
Room 410, 13 Professor Square, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8qq, Uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6687-3232Biography
I received my MPhil (Distinction) in Media and Culture from the John Logie Baird Centre, University of Glasgow, in 1998, and then worked for a decade as an award-winning producer and development producer of TV and fiction. I was awarded a PhD for the thesis, Documentary in a Multiplatform Context, from University of Copenhagen in 2013 and joined CCPR as a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Digital Economy & Culture that same year. I am now a Lecturer in Media Policy.
I research the practices, policies and political economy of national and global screen industries, with a focus on the UK and Scandinavia. As an award-winning producer of documentary and fiction with credits from BBC, STV, Channel 4 and National Geographic, I have strong links to the British and European screen industry, its production companies, institutions, agencies and working knowledge of their funding structures and production models. As an academic, and building on my professional experience, I research international and national media and screen production, with particular focus on Public Service Media, streamers, screen agencies and funding models. I am especially interested in the theory and production of interactive and VR factual screen media and documentary as well as the practical implications and policies of sustainability and EDI on and off set. I also have an interest in academic video and audiovisual learning in the classroom.
I am Principal Investigator on the Royal Society of Edinburgh Network grant Sustainable Screen Scotland (SSS) (2022-) as well as The Thunberg Test (TTT) (2022-), funded by an UKRI Arts Impact Acceleration Award and Screen Scotland. I am a Juror on the annual Media Education Film Awards (2020-), as well as a member of the Peer Review Councils for the UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (2022-) and the UKRI’s Talent Peer Review College (2021-).
Research interests
- Screen industries: funding, production and distribution
- VoDs, streamers and the multiplatform strategies of European Public Service Media
- Screen policy and practices around EDI and sustainability
- New documentary forms, especially interactive documentaries, docugames, ARGs and VR
- Academic video, interactive learning and Moving Image Education.
Grants
PI on Sustainable Screen Scotland (SSS) (2022-), a £19600.00 Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Network Grant. The network will connect the academics with producers and stakeholders in the Scottish film and television industry in order to facilitate the sector's transition towards net zero. The network aims to create a cross-disciplinary resource of expertise and know-how which will help provide an evidence-based response to the screen sector’s needs, and foster research and industry synergies and collaborations. The project is partnered with BECTU Vision (the education and training section of the Broadcast, Entertainment, Cinema and Theatre workers’ Trade Union) and Screen Scotland (Scotland’s national screen agency and funder). CI is Dr Mark Wong, University of Glasgow.
PI on The Thunberg Test (TTT) (2022-), an £9600 UKRI Arts Impact Acceleration Award and £10900 grant from Screen Scotland. TTT is a suite of educational resources as well as a traffic light assessment tool that monitors, educates, and raises awareness about the CO2 polluting messaging in film and TV drama. Mapped to specific productions, it educates learners and users about the climate-related content in film and empowers them to critically assess and evaluate the carbon footprint of storylines and narratives in films and high-end TV drama. TTT is like an enhancedBechdel Test for climate messaging of screen content. TTT is a collaboration with Screen Scotland & BAFTA’s Alberts designed to support the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence (CfE).
CI and Producer of the short film What Data Means to You? a short film project on public imaginings and lived realities of data futures (2021), funded by a £5000 award from the UKRI’s College of Social Sciences’ Impact Accelerator Award. The film launched the SHAPE conference at University of Glasgow in October 2021 and is available on
University of Glasgow's 'Social and Digital Change' research group‘s website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/socialdigitalchange/newsandblogs/whatdatameanstoyou. PI is Dr Mark Wong, University of Glasgow.
CI on a £37mio UKRI Strength in Places Fund bid for the project HotScot Unlocking Minewater Geothermal Energy Within Former Mining Areas of Scotland’s Central Belt (Ref 44067). The work package of £179K, led by Professor Kirstie Blair, University of Stirling, explored film, games, literature and art as community engagement. This project received 50K in seedcorn funding in June 2020, but the final bid was not funded. PI was Professor Zoe Shipton, University of Strathclyde.
PI on Commissioning Creativity and Funding Film (2016-17), a £9776.00 RSE Workshop Grant (172518), further supported by a £3815 grant from University of Glasgow’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Award (190784-59). This workshop series explored commissioning processes, funding frameworks as well as the role and practices of commissioners in the screen industries in Northern Europe. The project was a KE between academics and the Directors and Heads of Production from Creative Scotland, The Danish Film Institute, New Danish Screen, Screen Netherlands, Swedish Film Institute and Norwegian Film Institute. It was also an international collaboration with CI Dr Eva Novrup Redvall, Department of Film & Media at Copenhagen University.
PI on Liveness Across Screens and Platforms (2015-16), a RCUK/CREATe workpackage (67195) of £4970. The work package explored second screen viewing practices around live media events.
Ph.D. funding of 1,550,000 Dkr from FMKJ (the Danish Research Council of Communications & Journalism) for the PhD project Documentary in a Multiplatform Context (2008-2013).
Grant Affiliations:
In 2018 I am appointed to the steering group of the AHRC Early Career research grant Screen Agencies as Cultural Intermediaries (AH/R005591/1) (2018-). PI: Dr Caitriona Noonan, University of Cardiff.
I am affiliated with the research project Reaching Young Audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young audiences (2019-23), funded by the Danish Research Council. PI is Dr Eva Norvup Redvall, University of Copenhagen.
Supervision
I would welcome students who are interested in researching any aspect of the screen industries, especially around production practice and policy as well as interactive factual formats and moving image education.
I supervise in the areas of:
- Screen funding, production, distribution and industries
- VoD, streamers, and the multiplatform strategies of European Public Service Media
- New documentary forms, especially interactive documentaries, docugames, ARGs and VR
- Sustainability in the screen sector, production and policy
- Academic video, interactive learning and Moving Image Education
- Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding of screen project.
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Lecturer in Media Policy - Oweis, Zein Almaha Rami Wahdan
How are people with disabilities perceived in traditional mainstream Jordanian media vs. Facebook?
I have supervised to successful completion the Doctorates of:
- Dr Jun Wu (co-supervised with Professor Gillian Doyle, CCPR, University of Glasgow), Multiplatform Strategies in the Chinese Television Industry. 3rd March 2022.
- Dr Siqi Li (co-supervised with Professor Raymond Boyle, CCPR, University of Glasgow), Chinese-language Internet-based Media Consumption of Chinese People in the UK and Their Intercultural Adaptation. 7th of July 2022.
Teaching
Since 2014, I convene and teach the course Research Methods 1 and 2 (CCPR5007 & CCPR5008) courses on CCPR’s Media Management MSc programme.
Professional activities & recognition
Editorial boards
- 2010: Audiovisual Thinking
- 2019: Nordic Journal of Media Studies
Additional information
Consultancy, evidence giving and steering groups
I regularly give evidence and act as a consultant to the screen sector. I consulted Screen Scotland on their new strategy for the Scottish screen industry (2021) and often engage with Ofcom (2017-) and the screen trade union BECTU (2017-). I have also given evidence to the House of Lords’ Communications Committee (2018-19), the Scottish Parliament’s Inquiries into the Scottish Screen Sector (2015 and 2018), as well as European screen agencies (European Documentary Network and Moving Docs).
I am a Juror on the annual Media Education Film Awards (2020-) and acted on the steering group of Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Focus (2017-2021). I regularly organise panel discussions and industry events in collaboration with Screen Scotland (formerly Creative Scotland, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022), Glasgow Film Festival (2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020) & the Danish Film School (2012), as well as national and regional screen funders and agencies in Scandinavia and the Netherlands (2016, 2017, & 2018).
Peer reviews and editorial
I am a member of the Peer Review Councils for the UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council as well as the UKRI’s Talent Peer Review College (formerly the Peer Review College of the UKRI’s Leadership and Innovation Fellowships).
I am on the editorial boards of Nordicom’s Nordic Journal of Media Studies (2019-) and Peter Lang’s book series Documentary Film Cultures (2017-). I am a founding editor of the pioneering, peer-reviewed journal of academic videos Audiovisual Thinking (2010-2018),and was a guest editor of Internet Policy Review (2016), Journal of Media Education (2019), and a CREATe Working Papers special issue on Chinese Creative Industries (2019).
I regularly peer-review for the leading, international journals in my field (Media Culture and Society, Television & New Media, New Media and Society, International Journal of Communication, Cultural Trends, Mass Communication & Society) as well as emerging and tone-setting journals (Critical Studies in Television & Journal of Internet Policy Review). I also review for publishers (Sage, Routledge, Palgrave & Taylor Francis) and high-profile international conferences (Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and International Communication Association (ICA)).
Keynotes, invited talks and conference papers
Keynote speaker at the launch of JOMEC's new Feminist Media Studies research group, University of Cardiff, May 2022.
Invited speaker with all costs covered at the Cultural Transformations symposium, University of Aarhus, Denmark (2018); the Docmedia workshop at Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Germany (2018); MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives in Amsterdam (2014); Television 3.0 conference in Stockholm, Sweden (2013) and Didaktikk & Teknologi conference in Lillehammer, Norway (2011).
I regularly present at national and international academic conferences e.g., Nordicom (2021), MeCCSA (2010 & 2019) ICA (2017), AoIR (2017), RIPE (2014), Visible Evidence (2010), ECREA (2016), Media Industries Conference (2018), as well as smaller, subject-specific conferences.
Public dissemination & other scientific contributions
I am on the Danish broadcasters’ database of experts on British Media and regularly interpret British media and politics in Danish TV, radio and press. was interviewed on television for the 2010, 2015 and 2019 UK General Elections, the Scottish referendum (2014) and the EU referendum (2016) on DR Deadline, DR News and TV2News. I regularly contribute feature articles and ‘analyses’ on British media in the Danish broadsheets (Politiken) and radio (DR & 24/7), and comment on digital business models in the international press.
I regularly contribute feature articles and ‘analyses’ on British media for the Danish broadsheets (Politiken) and radio (DR & 24/7), and comment on digital business models in the international press.
Producer and screen industry professional
I am an award-winning producer of interactive media, film and TV and consultant for TV companies in Scotland. Prior to becoming an academic, I worked for a decade as an award-winning documentary producer for BBC, National geographics, Five, Channel 4 and STV, and I have strong links to and regular collaborations with the British and European screen industry, its production companies, institutions, agencies, and working industry knowledge of their funding structures and production models.
Special Awards and Distinctions
2014 Winner of the Best Feature Award at Terror Film Festival for Timelock, Pittsburgh. I was the Producer of this film.
2006 Winner of The Scottish Refuge Council’sMedia Award 2006, and shortlisted for Amnesty Internationals’ Scottish Media Award for the documentary Asylum, A Place of Refuge. I was the Assistant Producer.
2006 ‘Special Mention’ at the International Film Festival Cinerail in Paris for the documentary Last Train to Beechwood. I was the Producer of this documentary.
2005 Winner of a Scottish BAFTA and shortlisted for a UK BAFTA for ByeChild. I was the Associate Producer.
Broadcast and film – selected credits
Timelock, Producer for Timelock Productions
A 93’ theatrical feature film. Thriller starring Alton Milne & John Gilmour. Director: David S.C. Griffith. Release: 2013.
Firefighters, Series Producer for Saltire Films
A 6x30’ observational documentary series for BBC Scotland that follows the life and work of the fire fighters and trainees of Strathclyde Fire and Rescue, Europe’s largest fire brigade. Transmission: From 12th September 2006.
Asylum – A Place of Refuge, Associate Producer for Saltire Films
A 60’ documentary for BBC Scotland about five asylum seekers in Glasgow. Transmission: 3rd November 2005.
Last Train to Beechwood, Producer for Hopscotch Films, Glasgow
A 30’ documentary for Scottish Screen, Scottish TV and Grampian TV about childhood, growing up and apart. The film follows the reunion of four 40-somethings who ran the world largest tinplate train set as children. Transmission: 14th July 2004 and 29th December 2005.
When Daddy Came Marching Home, Producer for Hopscotch Films
A 2x30’ social history documentary series for Border Television about fathers returning from WWII and the difficulty this caused in family life. Transmission: August 2004.
Jessie M King, Producer for Hopscotch Films
A 30’ arts documentary for Border Television about the life of the artist, Jessie M King. Transmission: June 2004.
Bye Child, Associate Producer for Poetry in Motion, Glasgow
Bernard Mac Laverty’s cinematic adaptation of Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney’s famous poem.
The Clash of the Celtic Giants, Insert Director for Extreme Productions, Belfast
A 2x30’ OB on the annual Highland Games and strongman competition in Northern Ireland for BBC Northern Ireland. I was a Researcher on this annual programme in 2000 and Insert Director in 2002. Transmissions: July 2000 & 2002.
Top Dogs, Assistant Producer for Ideal World Productions, Glasgow
A 6x30’ observational ‘dogumentary’ for BBC Scotland. Top Dogs was my original idea. Transmission: Autumn 2001.
Bits, Assistant Producer/Researcher for Ideal World Productions
Series 4 of Channel 4Later’s computer games review show. I sourced and cleared copyright for games and directed and edited news item and gameplay inserts. Transmission: September-December 2000.
