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I Am Still Here (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
MacLeod, K., Guma, T., MacLean, G., & Sharapov, K. I Am Still Here. [Digital Video]. Exhibited at Glasgow Media Access Centre. 23 February 2022 - 23 February 2022

Premiere screening of "I Am Still Here" documentary film at Glasgow Media Access Centre as part of hybrid launch of project "Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid 19 outbreak."
Napier... Read More about I Am Still Here.

Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2021, October). Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education. Paper presented at Menstruation in the Media (in collaboration with Menstruation Research Network), Sheffield Halam University

This paper will discuss the a university produced social impact documentary, Bleeding Free, produced by an advocacy and impact collective, Bleedin Saor . The collective (meaning Bleeding Free in Scots & Gaelic) aimed to increase access to period prod... Read More about Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education.

The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2021, July). The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic. Paper presented at 2021 MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium, Solent University, Southampton

The presentation will discuss initial reflections on a UKRI funded impact and engagement project in the Pacific, aimed at addressing community based and participatory media production as a development methodology to tackle gender inequality and speci... Read More about The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic.

Bleeding Free (2021)
Digital Artefact
MacLeod, K., Morgan, L., & Cochrane, R. (2021). Bleeding Free. [Digital video]

A documentary film about period poverty and menstrual health. The film focuses on the importance of free access to period products and how this improves the life chances for women and girls, especially in relation to education but also for gender equ... Read More about Bleeding Free.

KUSWA: a case study of indigenous participatory filmmaking addressing gender violence and sorcery accusations, Papua New Guinea (2021)
Report
Crook, T., Fufurefa, E., Hukula, F., MacLeod, K., Munau, L., Sar, L., & Strong, T. (2021). KUSWA: a case study of indigenous participatory filmmaking addressing gender violence and sorcery accusations, Papua New Guinea. AHRC & ESRC

Case study produced for AHRC/ESRC project addressing indigenous engagement in research practice. Case study discusses community filmmaking within context of KUSWA organisation in Goroka, Papua New Guinea and its use as a strand in combatting gender b... Read More about KUSWA: a case study of indigenous participatory filmmaking addressing gender violence and sorcery accusations, Papua New Guinea.

The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2021, March). The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic. Paper presented at MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium 2021, Bournemouth University

The presentation will discuss initial reflections on a UKRI funded impact and engagement project in the Pacific, aimed at addressing community based and participatory media production as a development methodology to tackle gender inequality and speci... Read More about The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic.

Challenges of Self-Presentation and Athlete Branding Among Saudi Female Exercisers: An Auto-ethnography of a Muslim Saudi Personal Trainer Instagram User (2021)
Journal Article
Basabain, W., Macleod, K., Westbury, T., & Qutub, A. (2021). Challenges of Self-Presentation and Athlete Branding Among Saudi Female Exercisers: An Auto-ethnography of a Muslim Saudi Personal Trainer Instagram User. Asian Social Science, 17(3), 9-30. https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v17n3p9

Some athletes have attracted millions of audiences, even if being namely recognised. Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar JR., and David Beckham have the most Instagram followers on a global scale. Online Social Networks (OSN) allows users to establish their pr... Read More about Challenges of Self-Presentation and Athlete Branding Among Saudi Female Exercisers: An Auto-ethnography of a Muslim Saudi Personal Trainer Instagram User.

Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium (2020)
Digital Artefact
MacLeod, K., Sar, L., Crook, T., Ryle, J., Boodoosingh, R., & Montgomery, N. (2020). Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium. [Website including Video content]

A website showcasing the work of filmmakers, known as The Pacific Filmmaking Consortium. Consolidating this network of filmmakers, funding a slate of films and distributing their work has been the key work of this project. Due to Covid 19 there was l... Read More about Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium.

Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Film4Gender (2020)
Other
MacLeod, K. (2020). Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Film4Gender. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCay9m0ScfbKBOViR4GpIbvA

A Collection of Short community based films (1hour 25 mins) by Pacific Filmmakers focused on gender, gender based violence and local responses to the Covid -19 pandemic. The films were produced during 2020 by Pacific filmmakers from 7 countries - Pa... Read More about Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Film4Gender.

Film4Gender - Online Launch (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
MacLeod, K., Ryle, J., Crook, T., Sar, L., & Boodoosingh, R. Film4Gender - Online Launch. [Online event]. 1 December 2020

Online launch of the Film4Gender films by the Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium. Event to bring together the consortium filmmakers, shared discussion of the films, with Q&A. Public& international event, including participants from some of the... Read More about Film4Gender - Online Launch.

Film4Gender (2019)
Digital Artefact
MacLeod, K., Crook, T., Sar, L., Ryan, J., & Boodoosingh, R. (2019). Film4Gender. [Digital video]

Films made by Pacific Filmmakers, members of Pacific Community Filmmaking consortium. Executive produced by Dr. Kirsten MacLeod.
These films, made with the communities they represent, tackle gender based violence and the impact of the covid pandemic... Read More about Film4Gender.

Event: Women Working in Film & Television (2017)
Other
Macleod, K. (2017). Event: Women Working in Film & Television. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

Annual Networking and panel events to enhance gender diversity and promote women’s careers in film & Television. Held on International Women’s Day in School of Arts & Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier.

Participatory filmmaking as documentary practice (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2016, November). Participatory filmmaking as documentary practice. Paper presented at Challenging Media Landscapes Conference, University of Salford, University of Salford

This paper will examine participatory approaches to filmmaking, drawing on the author’s practice and research in community based, participatory documentary production in the Govan area of Glasgow. The paper examines the strengths and contexts of comm... Read More about Participatory filmmaking as documentary practice.

With a Song in your Heart (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Macleod, K. With a Song in your Heart. Exhibited at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. 11 November 2016 - 11 November 2016

Community based documentary film produced with Plantation Productions and National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. The film combines performances of the The Govan Allsorts community choir with their memories of childhood, drawing on NLSMIA... Read More about With a Song in your Heart.

Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016. (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Macleod, K. Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016. Exhibited at Govan, Glasgow. 2 May 2016 - 2 May 2016

Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening at Pearce Institute of films I have produced with Plantation Productions. This event was part of the 2016 Radical Film Network Festival.

Plantation Productions have been making films with, by and about t... Read More about Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016..

I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, January). I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking. Paper presented at Community Filmmaking Conference, British Film Institute, 2014

This paper will discuss Community Media as a networked knowledge practice through which participants mediate identity. It draws on examples from a community video project directed by the author on the Isle of Bute on the West coast of Scotland, supp... Read More about I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking.

“We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, January). “We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production. Paper presented at MeCCSA (Media, Communication & Cultural Studies) Annual Conference, University of Bournemouth (2014)

“We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production.

How can media production techniques enhance the participation and representation of marginalized groups and communities? In this paper I will draw on my resea... Read More about “We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production..

“I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2013, January). “I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project. Paper presented at MeCCSAAnnual Conference,Ulster University(2013)

What are the techniques of production that are used in local, small-scale media? How does the production process mediate identity and place, and how are these techniques reflected in locally produced media? And what can local representations of place... Read More about “I did not want to make this film, this film wanted to make me": techniques of production in the representation of place - examples from the Isle of Bute Video Project.