Recent project grants relating to Practice-as-research include:

• 2003 Countryside Agency: £5,000 for a landscape restoration and characterisation project in the Mendip Hills.
• 2003 University of Bristol £5000 matching funding to establish Bristol Docs, a collaborative research and production initiative with the University of the West of England.
• 2003 HEFCE: £38,500 Research Grant for the Expanded Cinema and Screen media project (see 9.1).

He has given a large number of conference papers on different aspects of practice-as research in film and related media. Professional commitment in the field include:

• Membership of the RAE 65 (Media and Communications) sub-panel of practice-based research submissions (2001), with responsibility for evaluating sub
• PARIP (Practice as Research in Performance) AHRB funded research group. Member of Management Group (2001-present)missions under this category.
• Membership of the HEFCE RAE 2008: Research Panel O, Sub-Panel 66 (Media and Communications)

This work has produced a number of conference papers and is the subject of a major work in progress that explores contexts in which land and landscapes have been authored and understood within signifying systems of film from 1895 to the present. Other work includes:

• (2006) ‘Location scenography: wilderness space and place in early film’ in (eds) Giannachi, G. and Stewart, N. Performing Nature: explorations in ecology and the arts, Bern: Peter Lang Publishing, pp. 85-101.
• (2008) ‘The Wellhouse’ (work in progress) a landscape media installation.

The term 'expanded cinema' has been applied to a range of film-based installations over many years, gaining a significant degree of currency in the 1960s although with antecedents that may be traced back to the earliest days of cinema. The Expanded Cinema and Screen Media research project (ExCiSM) based at the University of Bristol has developed as a collaboration between academics and practitioners in the creative arts and computer science together with industry partners. It is driven by a strong sense that digital technologies are redefining cinema as an inter-connected medium in which narrative and ideas are distributed across a number of media. In addition, the proliferation of multi-screen environments in work and leisure spaces contributes to a culture of fragmented and dispersed images and narratives that point towards new possibilities for the sites and experience of cinema.

The research field is defined in terms of inter-related areas, each with specific aims and methods:
(1) a scaleable audio-visual platform for a multiple-screen environment (MSE) with spatialised acoustic;
(2) a screenplay and screen work , to explore some exemplary relations between the MSE form, narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematic style and idea;
(3) development of model forms of documentation appropriate to practice-based research outcomes.

Work in the field includes a multi-screen film installation with spatialised acoustic entitled Hindsight, is funded by a major AHRB Research Grant. In a contemporary reading of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, the narrative dimension of Hindsight takes the pivotal act of the story and explores relations between identity, image and desire centred on the double-edged power of 'the look' in contemporary culture. One strand takes the act of 'looking back' as the cue to engage with interaction between memory and the material record (film, video, the internet), where fragments of past events and experience reside, open to challenge and interpretation; another strand explores senses in which the look consumes.

Performance and the performative in screen media. Concepts of screen performance from a number of theoretical and empirical positions, with a strong practice-based dimension, that is being developed in the context of current teaching (the ‘Screen performance’ and ‘Screen Acting’ units). Earlier work in this field includes:

• (1993) `Yes,Prime Minister: Social Reality and Comic Realism in Popular Television Drama', in (ed.) G.W.Brandt, British Television Drama in the 1980s, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• (1998) 'Screenplay: towards an aesthetic of performance in television drama', in Boxed Sets, Luton: John Libbey / Arts Council of Great Britain, 1998.

2000-2007. Founding editor of the Journal of Media Practice (Bristol: Intellect Publications), a peer-review journal with 3 issues annually (January, May, September). The Journal is supported by subscription from both the main subject associations (NAHEMI and AMPE) and by the accredited Industry Training Organisation, Skillset