Staff Directory

I am Professor of Creative Industries within the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries. My practice focuses on ethnographic and participatory filmmaking for social change. I seek to support grassroots marginalised and disadvantaged people, animals and the environment to have an effective voice in the discussion of issues that directly affect them. The theoretical underpinnings to my work draw on Paulo Freire's ideas of critical consciousness and the pedagogy of the oppressed. I have worked with communities in many diverse situations and countries, both in the UK and around the world. Much of my experience has been in Nepal where I lived for a number of years.

My ethnographic filmmaking is often empirical research, giving valuable insights into the lives of people and communities, making tangible connections between lived-experiences and policy. Utilising my skills in participatory methodologies, I have acted as Principal Investigator on numerous community-based development projects, using participatory, ethnographic and documentary filmmaking to describe processes and facilitate the sharing of recommendations and lessons learned. I facilitate relevant workshops for development organisations, utilising participatory methods that allow stakeholders to share experiences, explore issues, and produce recommendations to enhance sustainable development practice and policy.

A list of my publications is available at my:

USW PURE profile: link:https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/persons/michael-brown/similar/

ORCHID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9937-1359

Post Graduate Supervision

I welcome applications for PhD and MA candidates, especially in the areas of: filmmaking for social change, participatory filmmaking, development communication, and ethnographic filmmaking and video ethnography. For a fuller explanation of my supervisory interests and methodology please visit: www.marginalvoices.org/postgraduate-supervision.