Julia Bracegirdle's Recognition (8)

Academic Expert - Programme Validation Panel IADT, Dún Laoghaire.
2024 - 2024

Recognition Type	External Examiners and Validations
Description	Programme Validation Panel Member for Master of Arts in Animation at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.

External Examiner - Falmouth University
2021 - 2025

Recognition Type	External Examiners and Validations
Description	External Examiner for the Animation BA programme at Falmouth University, and the partner course Animation & VFX at AMDT, Sri Lanka.

Communications Censor (External Examiner), The Animation Workshop, VIA University, Denmark
2012 - 2016

Recognition Type	External Examiners and Validations

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
2024 - 2024

Recognition Type	Fellowships and awards
Description	Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Case Studies focused on 1) Curriculum Design for Animation - leading change, prioritising a process based approach for animation. 2) Introducing and leading the implementation of Dialogic Assessment methods for MA and BA Animation programmes at UWE
Affiliated Organisations	UWE Bristol
Research Areas	Digital Education Arts Education Film
Research Themes	Creative industries and technologies

How the Pictures Learnt to Walk (2012 -2014)
2012 - 2014

Recognition Type	International consortia and collaborations
Description	How the Pictures Learnt to Walk (2012 -2014) A collaborative project with Professor Birgit Beumers, funded by the University of Bristol with digital development by Aerian Studios. The touchtable was designed to bring pre-cinema assets and devices to life. Exhibited at: Museo del Precinema Minici Zotti, Padua (2013); International Stummfilmtage, Bonn (2013); Playable City Event, Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol (2014); Permanent collection, Bristol University Theatre Museum (since 2015)
URL	https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2013/9129.html

Finding Faces: Experimental Approaches to Character Design at Lego Design Academy, Billund, Denmark
2011 - 2023

Recognition Type	International consortia and collaborations
Description	CPD courses designed and delivered at Lego Design Academy, Billund, Denmark. Outputs include exhibition of work by designers. This work builds on my interest in extending techniques for design using non-traditional methods, and contributes to a body of work about the designed character.
Research Areas	Art Artificial Intelligence Applied Cognition Culture Facial Recognition

Short, Short Film Project - The Animation Workshop, VIA University, Denmark
2011

Recognition Type	International consortia and collaborations
Description	I am known for devising and leading the innovative Short, Short Film project, where students make very short films for a pre-school audience - to date, more that 96 films have been made. Many have been screened at short film festivals, including the Viborg Animation Festival (VAFF) and they have inspired students, and graduates to value and develop careers in this oeuvre of animated filmmaking.

Guest Lecturer, Curriculum Consultant - BA programmes - The Animation Workshop, VIA University, Denmark
1997

Recognition Type	International consortia and collaborations
Description	My career in higher education began whilst at Warner Bros. where I worked as an animation supervisor, manager and talent scout. This led to industry guest masterclasses at universities in Europe, notably at The Animation Workshop (TAW) Denmark (since 1997) where I am still an external curriculum consultant, and the longest serving guest lecturer. My work at TAW focuses on Ideas, Design and Storytelling; I am known for proposing the Short, Short Film Project - a capsule course where students collaborate to make short films for the pre-school 'Bridge' audience.
Research Areas	Arts CGI Cultural Education Digital Ethics Film
Research Centres/Groups	Screen Research Group