Professor Sarita Malik
Associate Pro Vice Chancellor – Research Impact / Professor - Media, Culture and Communications

Research area(s)

Creative industries and Social Inequality; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Creative Industries; Communities and Creative Practices; Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Diversity in the Creative Industries; Public Service Broadcasting and Cultural Representation; Cultural policy; Co-production; Lived Experience and Global Challenges. 

Research Interests

Example project: Principal Investigator on a large, international consortia project funded by the UK government’s Arts and Humanities Research Council examining how disenfranchised communities use the arts, media and creativity to challenge marginalisation in mainland UK, Northern Ireland, Palestine and India. Motivated by a concern to listen to largely unheard stories, this co-created project engages with past and emergent grassrooots art work that has responded to forms of social exclusion. Creative Interruptions brings together diverse practitioners, artists, activists, academics and non-University based collaborators to build a space where creative practices as well as theoretical, cultural and policy perspectives converge. Art is used as a forum to exchange knowledge about these experiences and research across divides. 

https://creativeinterruptions.com/

 http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH/N004094/1 

Grants

Project details

Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Fellowship; Dr Amani Hassani/Research Mentor; Sarita Malik) The Other's Right to the City: a comparative ethnography of Denmark's ghetto policy [2022-2025]

Arts & Humanities Research Council The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry, £761, 286 (Co-I) [2021-24] - CI 

Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Fellowship; Dr Grazia Ingravalle/Research Mentor; Sarita Malik) Beyond Film Heritage: Film Archives and Museums From A Postcolonial Perspective, £85,674,65 [2017-2021]

Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities Large Consortia Grant) Creative Interruptions: grassroots culture, state structures and disconnection as a space for 'radical openness', £1,503,840 [2016-2020] - PI 

Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities ‘Disconnection’ Research Development Funding grant) Creative Interruptions: grassroots culture, state structures and disconnection as a space for 'radical openness' £29,995 [2014-2015] - PI

RSDO Research Development Funding grant (Brunel University) Creative Interruptions: grassroots culture, state structures and disconnection as a space for 'radical openness' £3000 [2014] - PI

Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities follow-on grant) Community Filmmaking and Cultural Diversity: practice, innovation and policy £54,729 [2013-2014]; In partnership with the British Film Institute, London - PI

Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities grant) Diasporic Film in Communities: A scoping study of the relationship between screen culture, stakeholders and communities £38,905 [2012]; In partnership with the British Film Institute, London - PI

Brunel Research Initiative & Incentive Fund (Brunel University) Evolving understandings of communities: Connecting research, stakeholders and communities £15,000 [2012-2014] - PI