Don Duncan

Dr Don Duncanis a journalist and academic who lectures in Journalism and Documentary (above the bar) in the School of English, Media and Creative Arts. He joined Ollscoil na GaillimheUniversity of Galway in 2023 from Queens University Belfast. As ajournalist and documentarian, Dr Duncan has significant international correspondence experience from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Afghanistan, the Emirates, east Asia, North Americaand across Europefor clients including the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy , Le Monde Diplomatique , BBC, NPR, RTÉ, among others. As afilmmaker, he has written and directed films - in English and in French - that havebeen screened at some 30 festivals internationally and has picked up a half dozen prizes. He has also been an active member of an 8mm and 16mm film collective, shooting, developing and editing in analogue formats. He has written and performed experimental spoken-wordlive documentary hybrids to an international audiences at the HearSay International Audio Festival and through the Irish language atthe Liú Lúnasa fringe festival in Belfast.As amedia trainer and teacher, he has worked across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia with BBC Media Action, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and theInstitute forWar andPeaceReporting (IWPR),delivering training, mentorship and management to diverse media projects and broadcasters. Dr Duncansresearch interestsinclude: media practice and how it canintersect withlanguage and multilingualism; folklore and oral history; marginalised identity; voice and agency. Additionally, he is interested in factual animation, sound, sound design and non-verbal media components as vectors of meaning making.He haspublishedin a variety of peer-reviewed journals and is the co-editor of an anthology of Irish writing: Opulent Syntax (2023). Since 2019, he has been thePrinciple Investigator of an ongoing factual animation project called a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:vimeo.comshowcase8805128Ulster Gaeilge: Its Yours Too , which explores ways to represent and articulate various experiences of discovering, engaging with, and internalising the Irish language among Protestants and Unionists in East Belfast. This project is run in conjunction with the East Belfast NGO Turas and its founderLinda Ervine, and has received funding from Foras na Gaeilge, the Northern Ireland Executive, Urban Villages, and the Community Relations Committee.In 2021, Dr Duncan led a practice-based project exploring political disenfranchisement and youth voice in Northern Ireland in relation to climate change. The practice-as-research project - a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:vimeo.comshowcase8713350Civil Rights, Climate Wrongs - involved mastersstudents as co-investigators, exploring how animation can be used to express specific emotions and political states in the context of youth and climate change in Northern Ireland. Funded by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissions (NIHRC).Heteachespractice-based subjects (such as journalism, documentary craft, podcasting,and experimental media practice)as well as theory-based subjects in the areas of: politics and power; language amp; identity; minorities, minority rights and visibility; environment and ecology; folklore; and migration. He has a particular interest in inter-disciplinary teaching, a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:issuu.comnualafloodqubdocsPublic - No restriction_colab_2020_book_-_final_edit_-_high_qualitysuch as Public - No restriction CoLab , aco-taught practice focussed module he has run)with the School of Architecture at Queens University Belfast. Dr Duncan is also interested inCollaborative Online International Learning (COIL), such asa target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:vimeo.com644930300?share=copyExpressing a Youth Perspective on Climate Damage -a live, factual magazine TV show his MA students produced in collaboration MA students at Columbia University (New York).Dr Duncanholds a PhD from the University of East Anglia; masters degrees in politics and journalism from Columbia University in New York; and abachelors degree in literature from Trinity College Dublin. In 2016, he graduated with an MA in Film Directing from INSAS, the Belgian state film school. He holds a PGCHET diploma from Queens University Belfast. He speaks fluent French and Gaeilge as well as intermediate Arabic and Portuguese. a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.donduncan.netwww.donduncan.net

Practice-based research in media (journalism, documentary, podcasting, fiction, animation, experimental hybrid formats) exploring how media practicecanintersect withlanguage and multilingualism; folklore and oral history; marginalised identity; voice and agency. Factual animation, sound, sound design and non-verbal media components as vectors of meaning making.

Journalism, media practice, audio-based story telling (including podcasting), video-based storytelling, documentary (audio and video based), long-form print journalism