Ciara Chambers
University College Cork Head of Film and Screen Media
Cork
Dr Chambers has worked on a range of archival projects and digitization initiatives with the Irish Film Archive, Northern Ireland Screen (as their Digital Film Archive outreach officer), UTV (as supervisor of two joint PhD projects) and the BBC (Chronicle). Author of Ireland in the Newsreels (Irish Academic Press, 2012) and co-editor of Researching Newsreels (Palgrave, 2018), she was also scriptwriter and associate producer on Ireland in the Newsreels (2017-2019), a six-part television series broadcast on TG4, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. She is a member of the International Association for Media and History's council and recently organised its annual master class and symposium on the theme of archival appropriation, bringing together academics, filmmakers and archivists to discuss archival reuse in a variety of forms.