NIEICI Research Centres and Groups

Centres and Groups located in NIEICI can be contacted centrally via coc606@bangor.ac.uk

Film Studies Research Network

The aim of the Film Studies Research Network is to provide a friendly academic forum for the discussion of film and cinema studies. The FSRM is open to all members of the university in all departments. We actively encourage papers of an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted approach to film and cinema.

ARTeFACT

ARTeFACT is an international creative practice research group, based at NIECI and in collaboration with the British Library and National Archives, which actively seeks out and analyses evidence of creative writerly practice. All writers ephemera from marked-up and annotated manuscripts, diaries, letters and journals to publisher communicational and edititorial commentary all help us to explore the nature of creativity and to understand the personal and public histories of such creation.

CREATiVE LAB

With CREATiVE LAB students and academic staff alike can explore through creative practice, a multitude of avenues of knowledge, and come to understand the diverse nature of that creativity in a myriad of different ways (whether through traditional practices such as theatre and creative writing or new technological creative practices such as new media or podcasts.

International Centre For Creative Writing Research (ICCWR)

ICCWR is an international forum for creative writing of the highest quality and a platform for debates about creative writing teaching and practice in universities and colleges. Members are located in UK, USA and Australasia, as well as in continental Europe and Asia, and activities include international video linked seminars on creative writing research, readings, symposia and conferences.

Research Centre For Video Games And Virtual Environments

The NIECI Research Centre for Video Games and Virtual Environments is interested in all aspects of video games research, e.g. narratology vs. ludology, gender, postcolonialism, multimodal textuality, discourse and ideology, interactivity, entertainment psychology, education, online communities and (cyborgian) identities, transmediality and adaptation, as well as the design, development and marketing of games and online environments.

Centre for Podcasting Research

The aims of the centre for podcast research is to explore all the uses and opportunities that podcast technology allow in the university environment and beyond.

Centre for East Asian Cinema and Media

The centre for East Asian Cinema and Media is part of National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries (NIECI) at the University of Bangor, Wales. The centre aims to provide a forum for research, discussion and collaboration on the cinema and media (although not exclusively) of East Asia.

Gender Studies Research Network

The aim of the Gender Studies Research Network is to provide a friendly academic forum for the discussion Gender studies in all its forms: from queer to camp from women to men from lesbian to transgender.

Digital Literature Research Centre

NIECI’s Digital Literature Research Centre looks at a wide range of electronic literary phenomena, including narrative, poetry and drama. Its scope of material ranges from 'serious' hypertext through multimodal hypermedia to state-of-the-art codeworks, blogs, fan fiction, (physio-)cybertext and integrated game-play. Scholars, critics, poets and writers alike are more than welcome to join our group, initially by emailing Dr Astrid Ensslin (a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk).