In this talk, Dr. Catalin Brylla talks about his work on two impact-driven projects that leverage media practices to enhance wellbeing within and for the disability community. The first is the AHRC project “Youth Disability Activism in East Africa”, which employed participatory grantmaking to launch and support media advocacy campaigns in Tanzania. The second is the ongoing British Academy project “Media Engagement for Wellbeing in the Visually Impaired Community”, which collaborates with charities to organise and deliver media creation workshops for visually impaired people. Both projects address the intersection of disability, gender, age, class, and culture, as well as the positionalities of the researchers. They focus on participatory action research and public involvement strategies to harness the positive potential of media practices for marginalized communities. The projects’ impact is evaluated using a novel framework that assesses how communicative interfaces between stakeholder groups influence their knowledge, attitudes, and actions.
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Catalin Brylla is a Principal Lecturer in Film and TV and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion, and Social Justice at Bournemouth University. As a practice-led researcher, he has directed documentaries about marginalised communities, including Muslim women and disabled people. His publications include Documentary and Stereotypes: Reducing Stigma through Factual Media (2023), Documentary and Disability (2017), and Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (2018). He chairs the DEI Committees for Visible Evidence and the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, where he also serves on the board of directors.
