Videos

View our range of video essays and ethnographic films.

  • Making the new from the everyday: the art of the linguistic landscape

    Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield (7 Oct​ 2022)

    How do we experience language(s) in everyday life? How are our identities shaped through our engagements with language(s) in public space? How do people make the new from the everyday and the banal?

    In this presentation I share some current ideas relating to visual arts, creative practice and linguistic landscapes (visible languages), with examples from different research projects which explore everyday experiences of language(s) or Spracherleben through and with creative methods.

  • Lived Research Experiences: Ethnography across Disciplines (Online workshop)

    Seth Giddings, University of Southampton (24 May 2021)

    This workshop facilitated discussion about the meaning and value of ethnography in and across disciplines and to encourage networking and future research collaborations.

  • Lived Research Experiences: Ethnography across Disciplines

    Online Workshop

  • Care for Older People in Indonesia: Reality and Challenges

    This short film shows the diversity of circumstances in different areas across Indonesia, and the challenges that older people and families face in achieving a good level of care. The film results from a comparative, ethnographic research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on Older People’s Care Networks in Indonesia. The study was led by Associate Professor Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill from the Gerontology Department and was a collaboration with Atma Jaya Catholic University in Jakarta, HelpAge International, and the Universities of Oxford and Loughborough.

  • Common Ground​

    Andover College art students worked collaboratively with artists Salmagundi Films and the researcher to produce playful and provocative work which invites us to look at familiar landscapes with fresh eyes. As a starting point we explored the concept of ‘personal landscapes’, how we interact with our environment, in and around Andover. We make landscape personal through what we see, hear, smell, touch and absorb around us. How we embody spaces in the presence of other human and non-human bodies and structures. We make landscape personal through how we experience and explore ‘Common Ground’. In the routine movements of the everyday and shared photography walks in Rooksbury Mill and Andover town, students explored familiar territory in new ways. Personal Landscapes presents their unique viewpoints and the diversity of the semi-urban experience.

  • Faces of Andover Digital Portraits Making community visible in new ways

    This work resulted from a collaboration with the Test Valley Borough Council community engagement office in Andover. Recognising the barriers to inclusion for refugees and ethnic minorities in Hampshire’s small towns, Andover residents were invited to take part in digital self-portrait workshops, to explore identity and belonging. Children and adults responded to playful metaphorical questions through colour and design. The workshops and vibrant conversations they created gave rise to the foundation of a new Cultural Sharing Forum in Andover. The Forum is a space for different and diverse cultures to meet and network. More than a mirror image, Faces of Andover offers an insight into the human experience.