This fellowship felt like a great opportunity to take the time to develop educational courses and initiatives that can hopefully make a difference and have an impact beyond my own individual initiatives and experiments while I teach at King’s College London. I was particularly keen on raising the visibility of Africa within the College more broadly, and to promote a higher education system that is exciting and decolonising.
Dr Estrella Sendra, Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education (Festivals and Events)
17 October 2024
Education fellows announced for Global Cultures Institute
The Global Cultures Institute has awarded two education fellowships to develop professional education courses and expand the MA Global Cultures programme.
Dr Estrella Sendra, Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education (Festivals and Events) in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, and Professor Elka Ikpe, Director of the African Leadership Centre, will be working on the development of two short professional courses.
I am delighted to work with the brilliant Dr Sendra to develop an education intervention that will partner with the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence on Creative Economies, co-led by King's College London. In addition to our research, our ways of working will also platform African practitioners and policy actors that are generating innovative, impactful and interdisciplinary knowledge beyond the academy. In doing so, we are speaking to King's principles of interdisciplinary research-led teaching to equip our learners as critical global thinkers.
Professor Eka Ikpe, Director of the African Leadership Centre and Professor in Development Economics in Africa
The first short course will focus on creative education and the design and integration of cultural events and festivals in higher education, while the second will target professionals in the creative industries to build critical collaboration across cultures.
Alongside this, the project will contribute to the MA Global Cultures, delivered by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, to bring in case studies and perspectives from world regions, with a particular emphasis on Africa.
Dr Sendra has researched the film, cultural and creative industries in Senegal, as well as African film festivals, in previous research projects, which have focused on the decolonisation of academia. The toolkits and resources developed in these projects will be expanded on during this fellowship.
As part of the project, Dr Sendra and Professor Ikpe will also organise a public-facing event featuring a leader within the African creative industries.
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Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education (Festivals and Events)
Director, African Leadership Centre