Awardees
Professor Sarah Atkinson (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries), in partnership with Ida XR Studio and featured panellists Kady Marriott (WithYouWithMe), Sara Whybrew (British Film Institute), and Nicalia Thompson (Black XR Network UK)
Led by Professor Sarah Atkinson (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries), the SPECTRUM project brought together researchers, policymakers, and industry professionals to address urgent equity challenges in the UK’s immersive technology sector. Partnering with Ida XR Studio, the project culminated in a high-profile panel at BEYOND 2024, one of the UK’s flagship conferences for creative innovation… Read More >>
Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (Department of History), Rokhaya Diallo and Grace Ly (Activists and Co-creators of Kiffe ta race), with contributions from Professor Nicola Rollock and filmmaker Rajesh Thind
Race Across the Channel is an Activist-in-Residence project led by Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (Department of History) in collaboration with French antiracist activists and podcasters Rokhaya Diallo and Grace Ly. The project explores how political and media elites in France and the UK construct narratives that deny, invert, or demonise antiracist scholarship and activism. Through a series of bilingual podcast episodes and public-facing media outputs, the team tackled questions often left unspoken in public discourse: What makes racism “deniable”? How are antiracist voices reframed as threats? And what can transnational solidarity offer in the face of these discursive attacks?… Read More >>
Adriana Ford (Department of Geography), Rahina Sidiki Alare (PhD Researcher), Godwin Dzekoto (Project Manager, A Rocha Ghana), Daniel Kwaku Anetang (Artist, Ghana), Kate Schreckenberg (Professor of Environment and Development, King’s College London)
This project brought together researchers, artists, and local fire users in Northern Ghana to explore more inclusive approaches to environmental governance. Led by Dr Adriana Ford (King’s College London) in partnership with A Rocha Ghana, the project centred the experiences of herders, farmers, and hunters—whose knowledge and needs are often overlooked in fire policy. Through a participatory workshop in Damongo, 31 stakeholders came together to reflect on the social, ecological, and cultural dimensions of fire… Read More >>
Dr Estrella Sendra (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London), in partnership with EUNIC Sénégal (Stefanie Peter, Javier Mantecón, Valérie Lesbros, Jean François Pakula, Mélanie Sadio-Goudiaby, Morgane Quemener, Maka Traoré, Serena Cinquegrana, and the members of the ASHIA cabinet, Danielle Fonceka Sagna, Myriam Axelle Hounsounou and Fanta Hemeryck), with research collaborators Laura Feal, Ken Aïcha Sy and Mamyto Nakamura
The Tomorrow Party, led by Dr Estrella Sendra (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries), brought Senegal’s festivals community together to co-imagine a more sustainable ecosystem. On 12 April 2025, over sixty organisers, artists, partners, policymakers and journalists met at Instituto Cervantes in Dakar for a one-day creative policy lab structured in three acts: naming present aspirations, imagining futures, and planning how to get there… Read More >>
