NAHEMI Talking Shop 2025 - Call and Save the Date
Collaboration in Practice - Thursday 3rd July 2025
We are delighted to announce that our annual Talking Shop symposium will take place at The Orla Gough Lecture Theatre, University of Westminster, 35, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS. This event will bring together Higher Education, Film and Media specialists from across the UK in an open and friendly forum, with a rich programme of presentations reflecting innovative pedagogy and sharing good practice, along with an opportunity for networking and debating key issues in Higher Education media production.
The Call
In our current unpredictable world of global economics, environmental uncertainty, changing cultural discourses and the metamorphosising of Higher Education, it is vital that we find a way to work together to tackle the challenges that lay ahead. In film production education, collaboration is a key aspect in how we progress ideas, pedagogy, research, production skills and understanding, enhancing the student experience and contributing to new knowledge. NAHEMI Talking Shop 2025 will explore this in a one-day symposium under the heading of Collaboration in Practice through discourse, discussion and sharing good practice, We invite presentations, papers, and case studies, on how academic colleagues are collaborating with each other, with students, external and internal partners, fellow filmmakers, writers, creatives, institutions and industry, to enhance the student experience, embrace knowledge exchange and develop pedagogy.
Proposals should address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
· Cross-disciplinary Collaboration
· Collaboration and the Student Experience
· Co-Creation and Cooperation
· Student / Academic Collaboration
· Collaboration and Pedagogy
· Cross-institutional Collaboration
· Knowledge Exchange
· Industry and Education
· Authorship in Collaboration
· Networks and Learning Communities
· Technology and Collaboration
· Development, reseach, and Writing Collabs
Please send you proposal for a 20-minute paper, case study, or presentation to Chair@nahemi.org by June 20th. We also encourage NAHEMI members to join us for our AGM, which takes place on the morning of the event. Details to be announced.
Our Keynote presentations for the day are Sara Whybrew, Director of Skills and Workforce, Development, British Film Institute and Matt Dowling, Founder, Freelance Club. And Dr Christa van Raalte and Richard Wallis, Bournemouth University on higher Education and the Screen Industries in the UK.