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Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E. (2023, March). Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices. Presented at CKC 2023: New Futures for Creative Economies, Bristol, UK

This workshop presents and explores initial findings from a pilot research study that considers ways in which young people’s emerging and developing entrepreneurial creative practices might challenge and disrupt prevailing discourses about creative a... Read More about Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices.

Visualising the hostile environment: Creative studies of family immigration and separation (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E. (2022, February). Visualising the hostile environment: Creative studies of family immigration and separation. Presented at Research Seminar Series – Disruption in the Creative Industries., Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University

In this talk, Dr Emma Agusita discusses her research work that uses creative digital methods to explore people’s experiences of encountering UK family immigration regulations that result in prolonged periods of separation from their partners and fami... Read More about Visualising the hostile environment: Creative studies of family immigration and separation.

Divided by Law (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E., & Davies, K. (2021, November). Divided by Law. Presented at Lunchtime Talk Seminar Series, Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol

In this talk, Dr Emma Agusita and Dr Katie Davies discuss their research project in which film was used to explore and bear witness to the experiences of binational families and couples trying to cope with the UK’s hostile immigration environment. Ca... Read More about Divided by Law.

Design thinking as a pedagogic tool (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E., Gillet, M., Palmer, M., & Newbutt, N. (2019, June). Design thinking as a pedagogic tool. Presented at UWE Festival of Learning 2019, UWE, Bristol

This presentation shares the findings of research study that explored ways in which the use of design thinking might contribute to innovations in teaching and learning approaches in a range of different subject areas. Funded by a UWE Pedagogic Projec... Read More about Design thinking as a pedagogic tool.

Relationships at risk: Family migration, regulation and communication (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E. (2019, March). Relationships at risk: Family migration, regulation and communication. Paper presented at Risky Relationships: Navigating Immigration Regulation in Family and Intimate Relationships, Arnolifini, Bristol, UK

This paper reflects on the findings of a research study investigating the communications practices of partners and families geographically separated due to restrictive UK immigration controls. The study examined the nature and effects of cross-border... Read More about Relationships at risk: Family migration, regulation and communication.

Visualising love: Disrupting migrant datafication (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E. (2018, May). Visualising love: Disrupting migrant datafication. Presented at Data Justice 2018, Cardiff, Wales

Amid rapidly tightening immigration control by powerful nation states, migrants are increasingly subject to data discrimination, not least through processes of border management that exact individuals’ information for the purpose of social sorting an... Read More about Visualising love: Disrupting migrant datafication.

Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study) (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., Dovey, J., Agusita, E., & Baidoo, V. (2014, December). Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study). Paper presented at Engage Conference 2014: Unlocking the Potential of Curiosity-Driven Engagement, Bristol, UK

This presentation shares the approach and findings of a case study that explored how ‘South Blessed’, an informal youth network of creative citizens in Bristol, generates value through its activities. South Blessed showcases a diversity of young, cre... Read More about Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study).

Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study) (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., Dovey, J., Agusita, E., Baidoo, V., West, T., & Chapain, C. (2014, September). Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study). Paper presented at Creative Citizens: The Conference, Royal College of Art, London, UK

This session shares the work of the Creative Citizens strand that set out to investigate the impact of informal creative networks on their communities. In Bristol we worked with the network of young people that work around the very informal South Ble... Read More about Creative citizens: Researching the value of creative citizenship through co-creative action research (A ‘transmedia’ case study).

Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., Agusita, E., & Dovey, J. (2014, January). Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises. Paper presented at Community Filmmaking & Cultural Diversity: Practice, Innovation and Policy, BFI Southbank London

South Blessed is a community media operation based in Bristol, specialising in Hip Hop music videos, activist documentary, and live topical debates streamed online. The editorial ethos of South Blessed is one of promotion of talent and opinion from... Read More about Cultural hybridity as the fuel of creative enterprises.

Socially engaged practice, higher education and research – what’s the future? in demanding conversations: Socially engaged arts practices in a changing political climate - Panel chair (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Thomson, S., Fryer, L., Asante, B., & Boldon, A. (2010, September). Socially engaged practice, higher education and research – what’s the future? in demanding conversations: Socially engaged arts practices in a changing political climate - Panel chair. Presented at Demanding Conversations, Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol

This workshop session in Demanding COnversations focuses on the connections and relationships between Higher Education and community and arts organisations exploring a range of issues identified by key contributors and conference delegates. Demand... Read More about Socially engaged practice, higher education and research – what’s the future? in demanding conversations: Socially engaged arts practices in a changing political climate - Panel chair.

Design Hacks: Flips and Tips for Pedagogic Innovation
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E., Gillet, M., Palmer, M., & Newbutt, N. Design Hacks: Flips and Tips for Pedagogic Innovation. Presented at CIHE Annual Conference 2019: Creative Approaches to Pedagogic Research, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

This conference presentation summarized the findings of the 2018/19 UWE Pedagogic Project "Design Thinking as a Pedagogic Tool: Innovating the Liminal Learning Process". The project investigated how design thinking approaches could be used as an effe... Read More about Design Hacks: Flips and Tips for Pedagogic Innovation.