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Professor Sarita Malik
Associate Pro Vice Chancellor – Research Impact / Professor - Media, Culture and Communications
Marie Jahoda 236
- Email: sarita.malik@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266874
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
Research area(s)
Creative industries and Social Inequality; Communities and Creative Practice; Diversity and Public Service Broadcasting; Cultural policy, representation and production; Co-production; Lived experience and global challenges.
Research Interests
Example project: Principal Investigator on a large, international consortia project funded by the UK government’s Arts and Humanities Research Council examining how disenfranchised communities use the arts, media and creativity to challenge marginalisation in mainland UK, Northern Ireland, Palestine and India. Motivated by a concern to listen to largely unheard stories, this co-created project engages with past and emergent grassrooots art work that has responded to forms of social exclusion. Creative Interruptions brings together diverse practitioners, artists, activists, academics and non-University based collaborators to build a space where creative practices as well as theoretical, cultural and policy perspectives converge. Art is used as a forum to exchange knowledge about these experiences and research across divides.
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: September 2021 - August 2024
CI
Funder: Clore Leadership
Duration: October 2019 - February 2020
Funder: Leverhulme Trust
Duration: September 2017 - August 2020
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Duration: October 2016 - October 2019
Creative Interruptions will contribute to the AHRC's Connected Communities research cluster on 'diversity and dissent' by recognising the key role of the creative industries (including the arts, heritage, media and other forms of cultural production) as major agents for social change, but also by highlighting the role of communities to interrupt dominant discourses and representations in ways not available in authorised cultural discourse.
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: October 2014 - March 2015
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Duration: October 2014 - March 2015
Funder: AHRC
Duration: February 2013 - February 2014
Funder: AHRC
Duration: February 2012 - October 2012
Funder: British Academy
Duration: March 2011 - March 2011
Project details
Arts & Humanities Research Council The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry, £761, 286 (Co-I) [2021-24] - CI
Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Fellowship; Dr Grazia Ingravalle/Research Mentor; Sarita Malik) Beyond Film Heritage: Film Archives and Museums From A Postcolonial Perspective, £85,674,65 [2017-2021]
Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities Large Consortia Grant) grassroots culture, state structures and disconnection as a space for 'radical openness', £1,503,840 [2016-2020] - PI
Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities ‘Disconnection’ Research Development Funding grant) : grassroots culture, state structures and disconnection as a space for 'radical openness' £29,995 [2014-2015] - PI
RSDO Research Development Funding grant (Ë®¹ûÅÉAVUniversity) Creative Interruptions: grassroots culture, state structures and disconnection as a space for 'radical openness' £3000 [2014] - PI
Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities follow-on grant) : practice, innovation and policy £54,729 [2013-2014]; In partnership with the British Film Institute, London - PI
Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities grant) Diasporic Film in Communities: A scoping study of the relationship between screen culture, stakeholders and communities £38,905 [2012]; In partnership with the British Film Institute, London - PI
Ë®¹ûÅÉAVResearch Initiative & Incentive Fund (Ë®¹ûÅÉAVUniversity) Evolving understandings of communities: Connecting research, stakeholders and communities £15,000 [2012-2014] - PI