Research Interests
practice-based research, animation research, addiction and recovery,
mental health, representations on screen, documentary film-making
mental health, representations on screen, documentary film-making
PhD Thesis
Animating Addiction: a practice-based study on addiction and recovery
Research Films
Components of Recovery (2022)
The Click (2021)
Films act as tools to facilitate discussions around addiction, recovery and the recovery process.
Involved focus groups with clients of Aiséirí, an Irish rehabilitation organisation with 4 treatment centres.
Suitable for rehabilitation organisations, people with an addiction and their families.
Will also be available online as resources.
Involved focus groups with clients of Aiséirí, an Irish rehabilitation organisation with 4 treatment centres.
Suitable for rehabilitation organisations, people with an addiction and their families.
Will also be available online as resources.
Text Resource currently being developed with guidelines and providing readily available
information on both films for whoever was delivering a session with the materials.
information on both films for whoever was delivering a session with the materials.
Conferences
23 – 25 November 2022. Inter.GLAM EU video competition at Lisbon Addictions Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
June 26 - July 3 2022. ANIMATION UNLOCKED, 33rd Society for Animation Studies Conference, Teesside University, UK
4 November 2021. RUN-EU European Innovation Hub Virtual Conference
28-29 October 2021. CONFIA 2021 9 ed. Conferência Internacional em Ilustração e Animação, Portugal
6-8 Oct 2021. VII FAIA - International Academic Forum on Animation, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
14-18 June 2021. ANIMATE ENERGIES, 32nd Society for Animation Studies Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
28 May 2021. AHSS, Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Postgrad Conference, UL, Limerick
18-19 May 2021. SRPRC 2021: Shannon Region Postgraduate Research Conference
14 November 2020. ISAM (International Society of Addiction Medicine) - CSAM (Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine) 2020 Scientific Conference and Annual Meeting, International virtual conference
29 April 2020. AHHS, Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Postgrad Conference, UL, Limerick
18 June 2019. SAS, 31st Society for Animation Studies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
June 2019. LPRC, Limerick Postgraduate Research Conference, UL, Limerick
Components of Recovery (2022) Screenings:
> Waterford Film Festival 2022, UPCOMING: ODEON CINEMA in Waterford City 27th of Nov '22.
> Still Voices Film Festival 2022, Made in the Midlands and Student Shorts Programme.
Awarded 'Best Irish Student Short Film'
> The REEL Recovery Film Festival 2022, Documentary Programme, in Los Angeles 27 Oct '22.
> Waterford Film Festival 2022, UPCOMING: ODEON CINEMA in Waterford City 27th of Nov '22.
> Still Voices Film Festival 2022, Made in the Midlands and Student Shorts Programme.
Awarded 'Best Irish Student Short Film'
> The REEL Recovery Film Festival 2022, Documentary Programme, in Los Angeles 27 Oct '22.
The Click (2021) Screenings:
> Waterford Film Festival 2022.
> Still Voices Film Festival 2022, Student Shorts Programme.
> Shortlisted in the EU Inter·GLAM video contest, screening at Lisbon Addictions 2022 conference.
Lisbon Congress Centre, 23-25 Nov '22.
> The REEL Recovery Film Festival 2022, Short Film Programme, in Los Angeles, 27 Oct '22.
> Animation Dingle 2022.
> Semi-Finalist, DRAWTASTIC "GOLDEN PENCIL AWARDS" 2023
> Waterford Film Festival 2022.
> Still Voices Film Festival 2022, Student Shorts Programme.
> Shortlisted in the EU Inter·GLAM video contest, screening at Lisbon Addictions 2022 conference.
Lisbon Congress Centre, 23-25 Nov '22.
> The REEL Recovery Film Festival 2022, Short Film Programme, in Los Angeles, 27 Oct '22.
> Animation Dingle 2022.
> Semi-Finalist, DRAWTASTIC "GOLDEN PENCIL AWARDS" 2023
Article
CONFIA 2021 Peer-reviewed Proceedings Paper, Title: Animating Addiction: Rendering Themes from Lived Experiences to Animation in ‘The Click (2021)’, pp. 406-415, Available: https://confia.ipca.pt/files/confia_2021_proceedings.pdf
Podcast
Film Ireland Animation Panel, Oct 2022