Anfal Almesbah

Profile

Instructional Designer and lecturer of Film Education at The College of Basic Education, The Public Authority for Applied Eduation and Training (PAAET) - Kuwait. Prior to joining my PhD studies at Leeds, I worked for the Educational Television Department at Kuwait Ministry of Education.

I am currently volunteering as a PGR Rep at The School of Education, and I co-chaired the organising committee of RSEC18 Conference 2025. I have recently discovered that I may be neurodivergent (undiagnosed ADHD), which informs a distinctive learning and production style that often brings creativity, adaptability, and unconventional problem‑solving to my work.

My personal interestrs are:

• Film Editing.
• Islamic Geometry Design.
• Art, Nature, Cats and Coffee.

Research interests

My PhD research explores Alain Bergala’s The Cinema Hypothesis as a promising model of film education for youth. I am looking into its educational potential through the lens of Multi-Literacies Theory (New Literacies Studies).

My research interests are:

• Film Education (the practical element of filmmaking pedagogy).
• Multi-Literacies Theory and Multimodality.
• The Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (Mayer’s).

Qualifications

• MA Digital Literacies, Culture and Education - University of Sheffield
• MA Learning, Technology and Education - University of Nottingham
• Diploma is TV Production - Video Editing

Research groups and institutes

• ICY: Inclusion, Childhood & Youth Research Centre
• Centre for Curriculum, Pedagogy and Policy
• Centre for Digital Learning
• Centre for Language Education Research