| 2023 | ELIA Executive Board |
| 2021-6 | Elected ELIA Representative Board |
| 2023-5 | National Film School, External Examiner |
| 2023 | MA Programmes Review, External Assessor, Goldsmiths College |
| 2022-3 | Panel Member REF Panel 34 (Research Excellence Exercise, UK; Outputs, Impact & Institutional assessment) |
| 2022 | Principal Fellow Higher Education Academy |
| 2019 | Professor of Documentary Practices |
| 2016 | Senior Visiting Scholar 2016/17 Columbia University, New York |
| 2016 – 18 | Teaching Scholar Award, University of the Arts London |
| 2015 | Elected vice-chair of National Committee of Association of National Teaching Fellows |
| 2015 | AHRC. Advisory Board and consultant Black Art Modernism (BAM) |
| 2014 | Editorial board of Spark (UAL Learning & Teaching Journal) |
| 2014 | Editorial board of Journal of Media Practice (JMP) |
| 2014 | Member of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, identity, Nation, (TrAIN) at University of Arts London |
| 2014 | Reader in Documentary Film, LCC, University of Arts London |
| 2013 | Appointed to National Committee of Association of National Teaching Fellows (NTFS) |
| 2012 | International Advisory Board, Moving Image Review & Art Journal |
| 2010-12 | Co-Investigator of AHRC-funded bid The Moving Image Research Network from which Moving Image Review & Art Journal developed (MIRAJ) |
| 2007- | Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK |
| 2006- | Course Director, MA Documentary Film, LCC, University of Arts London. Devised and wrote LCC’s first post-graduate film production MA. |
| 2005- | Executive Group of Institute of Communication Ethics, publishing Ethical Space, the Institute’s peer-reviewed quarterly journal |
| 2002-08 | Visiting Lecturer in Film, Department of Lifelong Learning, Birkbeck College, University of London. |
| 2002- | Voting member of British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), invited for contribution to documentary film. |
| 2002- | UK Trustee, Pragya Envoironmental Charity (Whitley Award-winning international environmental charity, with UN observer status) |
| 2001- | Specialist Tutor in the reporting of religion & ethics, Centre for Journalism, City University, London. |
| 1999- | Director, Lotus Films |
| 1998- | BBC TV Training; Associate, developing training for directors and individual learning consultancies for BBC TV documentaries |
| 1994- | Member, Directors UK (formerly Directors’ and Producers’ Rights Society) |
| 1994 | Consultant editor, The India Magazine (leading English-language magazine on Indian arts) |
| 1993 | Co-editor, New Internationalist magazine |
| 1991 -92 | Lecturer, English Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Co-wrote & delivered new BA strand Writing for Media. |
External Examining
| 2023 | Goldsmiths College MA Documentary Review |
| 2022 | National Film School MA Programmes |
| 2015 | External advisor, periodic review of Falmouth University’s film courses |
| 2014- | MA Screen Documentary, Goldsmiths College, University of London |
| 2013 | MA Documentary Practices, MA Journalism, MA Media Communication, MA Animation, UCA (Farnham) External Advisor for validation & revalidation |
| 2012 | MFA, Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, External Advisor |
| 2009-12 | MA in International Journalism at Brunel University, external examiner |
| 2010 | BA in Community Journalism at Lincoln University – external validator Validator, BA Community Journalism, Lincoln University |
| 2009-10 | BA Journalism at Thames Valley University |
contribution to teaching and learning
| 2016 | Seminar for Learning and Teaching Day, UAL Contemplative Pedagogies |
| 2015 | Seminar for Learning and Teaching Day, UAL on “collaboration” |
| 2014 | Keynote to Learning and Teaching Day on teaching/research practice |
| 2009- 2013 | Presented papers on pedagogy of own research and teaching practice each year at annual Teaching & Learning Day (UAL) & chaired debates / seminars. Including Widening Participation in Film; Cultural capital: in whose image? Show & Tell, University to Industry; Making A Difference; what students say about us’ a screening & paper on inclusive pedagogy). |
| 2010 | One Step at A Time, interview for video on widening participation research to develop new curricula, used at HEA conference Meeting the Challenge. |
| 2009 -13 | CPD: Reflexive practice research on documentary ethics for PhD by Published Work, (UAL). |
Selected Presentations / chair / convening national and international conferences
| 2022 | “The Steel Shutter”, Belfast, conference presentation on creating “restorative narrative” after conflict |
| 2022 | Chair ELIA Biennial keynote |
| 2016 | British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), Justine conference screening & debate. |
| 2016 | National Teaching Fellows’ Annual Symposium. Presentation of consultation paper on TEF & NTF responses. |
| 2016 | LSE “Journalism in Crisis” conference, chaired photography panel (Magnum / AP) “Power of the Image”. |
| 2016 | Fastnet Film Festival. Schull, Ireland showcased own practice alongside LCC/UAL films & debate. |
| 2016 | HEA Arts and Humanities Annual Conference< Brighton. Co-developed & co-presented “Contemplative Pedagogies” workshop with G. Barton. |
| 2016 | Screening Justine at ACT International Human Rights Film Festival (Denver) USA |
| 2015 | Panel Chair UAL Professoriate debate on practice based research |
| 2015 | Opening screening/debate Poetics and Politics of Documentary Research Symposium UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz) – the event reflected the conceptual interest in Justine. |
| 2015 | Paper for LCC symposium ‘Staging Disorder’, exploring contemporary representation of the ‘real’ in relation to modern conflict. |
| 2014 | Media & Myth: Mass Media and the Vietnam War panel discussion Hundred Years Gallery, London |
| 2014 | Panel Chair: Artists in Conversation, Lucinda Douglas-Menzies & Elina Moriya, 4 Corners, London. |
| 2013 | Panel Chair: Documentary Compassion at Visible Evidence XX, Stockholm. |
| 2012 | Panel Chair: Graduate School Public Research Platform debate ‘Art & Social Engagement’ Chelsea, Camberwell, Wimbledon Schools of Art. |
| 2012 | Panel Chair: Documentary Now! Panel Title: ‘YouTube Activism’, UCL London. |
| 2012 | Conference Chair (& co-Investigator) AHRC-funded Place, Landscape / Ecology. LCC, June 2012 |
| 2012 | Conference Chair (& co-Investigator) AHRC-funded Documentary & The Ethnographic Avant-Garde, LCC, January 2012 |
| 2011 | Panel Convenor: Documentary Now! Panel Title: ‘Ethics at the edge: documentary dilemmas in sound and image’, London. |
| 2010 | Panel Convenor: MECCSA, Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association, Chaired panel ‘Developing Stories: Narrative and Subjectivity’ |
| 2009 | Panel Chair: RNUAL summer forum. |