Tony Dowmunt
Position held:
Senior Lecturer in Communications
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7765
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7616
Email:
t.dowmunt (@gold.ac.uk)
Tony Dowmunt is the Course Convenor for MA Screen Documentary and has main responsibility for practice-based doctoral research in the Department (AVPhDs). He was a Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, funded by the AHRC, from 2003-6, doing a project investigating autobiographical documentary and the video diary form, in both theory and practice, which he then converted into a practice-based PhD awarded in 2010.
Previously, as well as teaching, he worked as a television Producer/Director for twenty five years, and as a community media activist. His more recent work involved innovative arts documentaries. His other research interests have included 'alternative media' and the growing field of practice research in the moving image. He was a founder member of the steering group of AVPhD, a training organisation for all those involved in audio-visual practice/research doctorates.