Professor Lizzie Jackson

I am a senior Professor in the School, Co-Director of the Creative Technologies Research Centre, and Principal Investigator of the Hi3 Network. The Hi3 Network is a £6.1m European Regional Development project to create three sets of connected studios across Essex, Kent, and East Sussex. The network provides an innovation infrastructure enabling SMEs and researchers to explore emerging technologies in the moving image.

Since 2004 my research has supported the evolution of public service media (PSM) to keep pace with contemporary media, audience, and organisational aspects. I also developed policy at international level, working with six other advisors drawn from across the EU to co-draft the Declaration and Recommendation on the governance of public service media for the European Commission. The Declaration and Recommendation was enshrined in European law in March 2012. I have published widely on PSM and the implications of emerging technologies for the media and communications sector. More recent research looked at the organisational culture of creative clusters through an international three-year funded project (2015-2019) investigating ten high technology clusters across Europe and North America. My current research looks at the implications of Virtual Production (VP) in the UK from production and industry perspectives. VP draws together the pre and post-production of televisual media with live shoots augmented by virtual backgrounds generated by the Unreal and Unity gaming engines.

External activities:
Advisor to the UK Intellectual Property Office (Research Advisory Group) 2015 to date.
President of the International Association of Public Media Researchers (2019-2021).
Member of the UK Home Office Internet Safety Task Force (2000-2002).
Founder member of Emint, the first International group for Social Media Managers (1998-2005).
Conference Presentations:
I have presented keynotes and papers over the last 30 years at over 100 national and international conferences. These range from academic to industry events including the key media and communications scholarly conferences in the UK to workshops and consultations organised by the European Commission, the European Broadcasting Union and international Social Media industry meet ups.

Principal Investigator of the Hi3 Network, a £6.2m European Regional Development Framework (ERDF) project
Co-Director of the Creative Technologies Research Centre

Third year dissertation for students in the Creative Technologies Division, School of Arts and Creative Industries.