Anfal Almesbah
- Email: edaalm@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: The Educational Potential of Alain Bergala's 'The Cinema Hypothesis': a Case-study of Film Education for Youth in Europe.
- Supervisor: Dr Lou Harvey, Professor Paul Cooke
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, in addition, I am a member of the organising committee of RSEC18 Conference. I am a Perfictionist, which is a double-edged sword I guess!
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