The Teaching and Technical Staff involved in running the courses at the Granada Centre
Rupert Cox.
rupert.cox@manchester.ac.uk
GCVA Director.
My regional specialism is Japan: I conducted fieldwork in the Kansai area, Kyushu, Tokyo and Okinawa. Some of my research interests include Zen art, art practice as ethnographic research, visual and sensory studies, the political ecology of military systems, soundscape studies and sound art practice.
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Lorenzo Ferrarini.
lorenzo.ferrarini@manchester.ac.uk
Lecturer in Social and Visual Anthropology.
My research interests include hunting, perception, the senses, visual anthropology, sound, phenomenology and embodiment. I worked on donso hunters in Burkina Faso, West Africa, looking at their relationship with a changing environment and embodied knowledge. I make documentary films, photography and sound recordings.
lorenzoferrarini.com
Paul Henley.
paul.henley@manchester.ac.uk
GCVA Founder (Leverhulme Research Fellow 2014-2016).
My current research project, The Silent Time Machine, funded through a Leverhulme Major Fellowship, is an investigation of ethnographic film prior to portable synchronous sound. Longer standing interests include the work of Jean Rouch (presented in The Adventure of the Real, Chicago 2009), the ethics of documentary film-making and the classical ethnology of indigenous Amazonia. I am also engaged in a long term film-making project about memory and landscape in rural Tuscany.
Andrew Irving.
andrew.irving@manchester.ac.uk
Professor of Anthropology.
My regional specialisations are Kampala, Uganda and New York, USA. I do research on experiences of illness, death and dying (especially from HIV/AIDS), in relation to the aesthetic appreciation of time, existence, and otherness; I am also interested in phenomenology, art, performance and creativity, time, comparisons of personhood, religious change, gender and urban experiences.
Andy Lawrence.
andrew.lawrence@manchester.ac.uk
Part-Time Senior Lecturer in Visual Anthropology.
I make documentary films on subjects relating to anthropology and experiment with new methods and technologies for filmmaking as research. I am interested in the uncertainty that surrounds momentous life changing experiences. I have made films about childbirth, death, adolescence, old age, adventure and identity in the UK, India and Peru.
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Angela Torresan.
angela.torresan@manchester.ac.uk
Director of MA in Visual Anthropology.
My area of studies ranges from indigenous politics, through transnational migration to postcoloniality (Brazil, Portugal). The research project I’m currently developing, Emerging Urban Convivialities: Everyday interactions between foreigners and long-term residents in a pacified favela in Rio de Janeiro, brings together my previous work with middle-class migration and a recent interest in processes of neo-liberal urban renewal and gentrification.
Gavin Searle.
Honorary Lecturer in Visual Anthropology.
Since 1992 I have worked as a director and cameraman for documentaries on British TV, including the BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winning series Welcome to Lagos, Tribe and Meet the Natives for BBC and Channel 4. At the GCVA I transmit to students my experience in production to help them translate their skills into employability.
gavinsearle.com
Richard Werbner.
richard.werbner@manchester.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor, Ethnographer and Filmmaker.
A Manchester graduate (PhD, 1968), I began long-term southern African fieldwork in 1960, first among Kalanga and later among Tswapong in rural and urban Botswana. My seven films include Counterpoint Botswana (2011) and Holy Hustlers (2009), which accompanies my book, Holy Hustlers, Schism and Prophecy (2011).
Rachel Fox.
rachel.fox@manchester.ac.uk
Media Coordinator
I worked as an editor at ITV Granada and BBC News, with around 600 on screen credits, then moved onto camera work starting in 16mm film and then digital. I have worked on animations such as Bob the Builder and Postman Pat as well as on the world’s longest running TV soap opera Coronation Street. I offer technical support to the students at the GCVA as well as give away TV secrets of how to make a good film. I’m interested in popular culture, the queer scene and all things Manchester.