Professor Claire Parkinson
Professor of Culture, Communication and Screen Studies
English & Creative Arts

Department: English & Creative Arts
Email address: [email protected]

Profile
Biography
Claire is Professor of Culture, Communication and Screen Studies, Co-Director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies and Creative Arts Director of Research. She has held academic posts at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Hope University and University of Brighton. She joined Edge Hill University as a professor in 2012 and was the founding Director of the Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE). She established the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS) in 2014.
Current projects:
PI: ‘Multispecies storytelling: more-than-human narratives about landscape’ (AHRCÂ AH/T006188/1).
PI: UKRI AHRC funded ‘Multisensory multispecies storytelling to engage disadvantaged groups in changing landscapes’ project (AHRCÂ AH/T012293/1).
PI: ‘Public perceptions of ‘dangerous dogs” (QR-SPF)
Research Interests
Media, film and animal studies
Critical Animal Studies
(un)sustainable consumption
Eco-media and eco-criticism
American independent cinema
Media, film and activism
Film and politics
Cultural history