MEd, PgCert, PhD
Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- alejandra.rodriguez@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi trained as a teacher and educational researcher at the University of Concepción and went on to complete a PhD at Gray's School of Art. Her current research focuses on arts-based approaches to petroculture and the poetics of filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.
Qualifications
- PhD Arts2007 - The Robert Gordon University
- PgCert Research Methods2004 - The Robert Gordon University
- MEd Education2002 - Universidad de Concepción
- Licentiate (equivalent of BEd) Education1998 - Universidad de Concepción
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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George Washington Wilson Centre for Art and Visual Culture
LLMVC Cluster C
LLMVC Peer Support Research Group 4 (Environmental Group)
- External Memberships
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Reflecting Oil: Arts-Based Research on Oil Transitionings (2019-24)
New Social Art School (2005-10)
- Research
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Research Overview
- Arts-based approaches to petroculture.
- The poetics of filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.
- Film and exile.
- Film and dream.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Film and Visual Culture.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Film and Visual Culture
Accepting PhDsResearch Specialisms
- Film Studies
- Cinematics
- Cultural Studies
- Environmentalism
- Latin American Society and Culture Studies
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
Reflecting Oil: Arts-Based Research on Oil Transitionings (University of Applied Arts Vienna/Austrian Science Fund, 2019-24). Project website and colloquium opening and panel discussion.
Creative Approaches to the Energy Crisis (University of Aberdeen/Aberdeen Grants Academy, 2023-24). Video and podcast.
Past Research
Curricular innovation and educational reform in Chile (Universidad de Concepción/FONDECYT, 1998-2002).
The arts as means of cultural integration: A Chilean case study (The Robert Gordon University/ORS, 2002-2007).
Reflecting Oil Colloquium opening event
Welcome, performance, keynote and panel discussion (University of Applied Arts Vienna, 9 June 2022).
Knowledge Exchange
Q&A Masterclass with Mania Akbari (GWW Centre/Aberdeen City Council, 10 February 2020).
Reflecting Oil Colloquium panel discussion (University of Applied Arts Vienna/Austrian Science Fund, 9 June 2022).
Host a Film Screening Night! blog article (NESCAN Hub, April 2024).
Creative Approaches to the Energy Crisis interdisciplinary workshop (Aberdeen Grants Academy, 10-11 June 2024).
Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation Symposium poster/demonstration showcase (Interdisciplinary Institute, 4 September 2024).
Oil, Petroculture and the Transition out of the Oil Age panel discussion (Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab/Austrian Science Fund, 3 October 2024).
Guest blog: ‘Creative approaches to the energy crisis’ workshop (Creative Carbon Scotland, 22 October 2024).
Collaborations
Since 2017, collaboration with artist Ernst Logar on Reflecting Oil: Arts-Based Research on Oil Transitionings (2019-24). Headquartered at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the project has partnered with a team of researchers led by Professor Holger Ott at the University of Leoben's Geoenergy Department. International collaborators have included Imre Szeman, Sheena Wilson, Amanda Boetzkes, Heather Davis, Benjamin Steininger, and many others working across the arts and sciences.
During 2024, work with interdisciplinary fellow Dr Rebecca Macklin and Cree Métis activist and filmmaker Cleo Reece on a collaborative chapter about creative embodied resistance in Alberta and Aberdeen.
Supervision
Co-supervision with Dr Calum Waddell of PhD student Huaying Dai (September 2024 start).
Funding and Grants
- Premio Universidad de Concepción, 1998.
- Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORS) scholarship, 2002.
- Robert Gordon University Research Development Initiative (RDI) studentship, 2002.
- Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) postgraduate conference bursary, 2004.
- Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) postgraduate travel grant, 2004.
- Gray's Aberdeen Visual Artists Award (GAVAA), 2008.
- Austrian Science Fund's Programme for Arts-Based Research, 2018 (FWF-PEEK Project AR547, 2019-24).
- Internal Funding to Pump-Prime Research and Research Networks, 2023.
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, January start
Courses
- Film and Dream FS35/4509
- Trapped on Film FS30/40GG
Teaching Responsibilities
Courses taught previously:
- FS40JA - The Shoot: Filming Drama (2009)
- FS5008 - Documentary and Visual Practice 1 (2009)
- FS2506/FS2507 - Cinema and Revolution/Visualising Revolution (2015-21 & 2023-5 as course coordinator)
- FS2003/FS2007 - Cinema and Modernity/Visualising Modernity (2015-20 & 2023-4, & 2021-2 as course coordinator)
- FS30/40GG - Trapped on Film: The Hero and the Captivity Narrative (2018, & 2019 as course coordinator)
- FS1008 - Introduction to Visual Culture (2019-24)
- FS35/45FD - Cinematic Cities (2019-21, & 2024 as course coordinator)
- FS5902 - Dissertation in Film and Visual Culture (2019-20 & 2023-5)
- FS5022 - Research Methods in Film and Visual Culture (2019 & 2021-4)
- FS1508 - Introduction to Film and the Cinematic Experience (2020-5)
- FS35/4509 - Film and Dream (2020 as course coordinator)
- FS4002/FS4506 - Dissertation in Film and Visual Culture (2020-4)
- FS5527 - Projects in Film and Visual Culture (2020 & 2023-4)
- EL5914 - Dissertation in Cultural and Creative Communication (2020-1)
- SX1022 - Arts for a More Sustainable Planet (2023)
- FS5526 - MLitt Special Study in Film and Visual Culture (2024)
- FS35/4516 - Art and Oil: Crude in Film and Visual Culture (2024 as course coordinator)
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
- Translation support and tutorial assistance for Prof. Raúl Ruiz (2007-9)
- Seminar tutor, FS35IB - On Documentary: history, theory and practice (3 March 2015)
- Undergraduate Open Day (5 October 2019)
- Moderation, FS30/40GB - Panoptic Digital Culture (2019)
- Moderation, FS35/45ZF - Images Adequate to Our Predicament: Art for the Anthropocene (2020)
- Video caption editor, FS2007, FS2507, FS35/45FD and FS5022 (2021)
- Moderation, FS5032 - Work-Based Placement in FVC (2022)
- PGT (2023) and UG (2023-4) personal tutor
- Offer Holder Day (26 April 2023)
- Internal Teaching Review (ITR) Pedagogic Partnership session (10 November 2023)
- Jan Komasa masterclass and Corpus Christi screening (1 March 2024)
- Naomi Holwill screening, workshop and Q&A (29 March 2024)
- Open Day (27 August 2024)
- Brae High School visit (1 November 2024)
- Publications
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The oneiric in Raúl Ruiz’s poetic system of storytelling
Contributions to Conferences: PapersIm Fokus: Reflecting Oil
EIKON - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art, vol. 121, pp. 45-55Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRaúl Ruiz, Speculative Bricoleur: Pedagogical and Televisual Ruptures
Raúl Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry. López-Vicuña, I., Marinescu, A. (eds.). Wayne State University Press, pp. 69-94, 26 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] https://muse.jhu.edu/book/57065
Evaluación de escuelas participantes en los Programas 900 Escuelas y Básica Rural en la Octava Región, Chile
Ediciones Facultad de Educación de la Universidad de Concepción, Concepción. 137 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksThrough a glass, darkly: Visualisation, revelation and reflection in Ernst Logar’s Invisible Oil
Invisible Oil. Logar, E. (ed.). Springer, pp. 47-69, 23 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRuizian ruptures of the mainstream: Chilean television and British film studies
Contributions to Conferences: PapersCofralandes: A Formative Space for Chilean Identity
Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America. Haddu, M., Page, J. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 87-103, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRuiz and the critical mainstream
Contributions to Conferences: PapersRuizian bricolage as philosophical approximation
Contributions to Conferences: PapersThe Student Protest Movement and Teacher Education in Chile, 2006-2008
Interactive Discourse: International Online Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 62-76Contributions to Journals: Articles