Social Documentary as a Pedagogic Tool
For this project, which involved nine countries, Julian McDougall worked with three English secondary schools implementing ethnographic social documentary-making in the Citizenship curriculum on the theme of European identity. Participating students’ films were screened at the Lisbon Documentary Film Festival in October 2012\
Europa 2111, as a EU Lifelong Learning Programme Project, developed a pedagogic methodology for social video-documentary making in the context of an ethnographic approach to reflecting on European identities.
Media | Information Education Policy in the UK
In 2013-2014, Julian McDougall from CEMP and Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green from the London School of Economics were commissioned by the EC COST: Transforming Audiences project to produce an analysis of media and information education in the UK. The reports from all EC members were presented at the Sorbonne, Paris and at a Unesco Forum on Media and Information Literacy, at which Julian co-drafted a Unesco Declaration on MIL: link
CEMP’s Marketa Zezulkova has been awarded a COST “Short-Term Scientific Mission” grant to conduct field media literacy research with 4-7 year old disadvantaged children in the Czech Republic and to establish a Child Research and Impact Group (CRAIG) with Charles University, Prague.
Julian McDougall is an expert reviewer for Horizon 2020 and Marie Curie Fellowships, a member of COST Action IS1401 – Strengthening Europeans’ Capabilities by Establishing the European Literacy Network (ELN) (2016): http://www.is1401eln.eu/en/action/ and was commissioned to provide UK media literacy data for the European Union Audiovisual Observatory’s 2016 report.
