Diane Maclean
Diane Maclean

Prof Diane Maclean

Dean of the School of Arts and Creative Industries

 0131 455 2515

  D.MacLean@napier.ac.uk

  

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Bafta - Best Documentary Award
  • Royal Television 麻豆社区 New Media Awards
  • Film G - Gaelic Short Film Awards

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Oral history and subjectivity in curating a national archive
  • Memory and Identity: Filmmakers and 'natives' collusion towards constructed identity.
  • The Angel's Share: Jazz whisky and the rural economy
  • Commissioned Programmes as Ethnography. Visual Methods and Ethnography, 麻豆社区
  • MeCCSA Conference Jan 2016, Canterbury: Manufacturing an island identity: How media practitioners and island communities construct an ideal of the Gaelic homestead

 

External Examining/Validations

  • University of South Wales
  • PhD Viva examination
  • Southampton Solent
  • Brunel University
  • Southampton Solent University
  • Leeds Beckett University, BA (Hons) Journalism 鈥 2014 - ongoing
  • University of Greenwich, BA (Hons) Media & Communication 鈥 2013 - ongoing
  • University of the West of England - International validation of programmes in Kuala Lumpur, 2011
  • University of Lincoln, BA (Hons) Media Production 鈥 2007-2011
  • De Montford University, BSc (Hons) Media Production 鈥 2010-2014
  • Abertay University, BA (Hons) Media 鈥 2007-2010

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • SFHEA

 

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • Carnegie Trust UG Vacation Scholarships

 

Media Activity

  • Bruadar sa Bh脿s (Dreaming of Death) Broadcast on BBC Alba 10th March 2016 and subsequently available on BBC iPlayer. Production Credits: Writer, Producer and Director.
  • R猫iteach (Betrothal). Duration: 30 minutes. Broadcast on BBC Alba 3rd, 5th and 6th August 2011 and subsequently available on BBC iPlayer. Production Credits: Writer, Producer and Director. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wylt
  • Leasan sa Bh脿s (A Lesson in Death). Duration: 1 hour. Broadcast on BBC Alba 19th September 2011, repeated 23rd September 2011 and subsequently available on BBC iPlayer. Production Credits: Writer and Producer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014w3jg
  • Clann Pheter R貌raidh (Peter R貌raidh鈥檚 Children) currently in production for BBC Alba. Transmission date October 2015. Production Credits: Executive Producer.
  • Beatha-Ph貌sd sa Sgarp (Married Life in Scarp) 鈥 Programme One. Duration: 20 minutes. Broadcast on BBC Radio nan G脿idheal, 26th December 2011 and subsequently available on BBC iPlayer. Production Credits: Producer.
  • Balaich na h-脌irde (The Aird Boys) Broadcast on BBC Alba 31st December 2014 and subsequently available on BBC iPlayer. Production Credits: Writer, Producer and Director. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g3w29/p02g3vjh
  • Beatha-Ph貌sd sa Sgarp (Married Life in Scarp) 鈥 Programme Two. Duration: 20 minutes. Broadcast on BBC Radio nan G脿idheal, 2nd January 2012 and subsequently available on BBC iPlayer. Production Credits: Producer.

 

Non-executive Directorship

  • Board member Scottish Jazz Archive
  • Sorbier Productions
  • Skillset Screen Academy Board

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Eric Liddell Centre
  • Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival: Scottish Jazz Archive
  • Edinburgh Science Festival: Material culture of beachcombing
  • Public engagement 鈥 co-organised 鈥楥onflicts, reporting and propaganda鈥, chaired by Joyce McMillan
  • Media Mondays 鈥 2011-2012, speakers included: Kirsty Wark, Alan Clements, Alex Thomson (Channel 4), Allan Little etc.

 

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Oral histories in the Scottish Jazz Scene

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2022, August)
Oral histories in the Scottish Jazz Scene. Paper presented at Jazz Then and Now, Amsterdam

Vivid Stories: Oral histories, collective memory and constructing Scottish jazz pasts within the contemporary scene

Book Chapter
Maclean, D. (in press)
Vivid Stories: Oral histories, collective memory and constructing Scottish jazz pasts within the contemporary scene. In 脕. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. Routledge
This chapter draws on the production and content of the Scottish Jazz Archive (SJA) oral histories collection alongside interviews from a PLACE (Scottish Government) funded re...

Islay Jazz Festival

Journal Article
Medboe, H., & Maclean, D. (2020)
Islay Jazz Festival. Jazz Research Journal, 12(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.40304
This article considers the ecologies and stakeholder interests that overlap in the staging of an annual jazz festival on a small Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. Through...

Jazz Stories: Oral History and Subjectivity in Curating a National Archive

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D., & Medboe, H. (2020, February)
Jazz Stories: Oral History and Subjectivity in Curating a National Archive. Paper presented at International Conference on Oral History, London

From the Crofthouse to the Cutting Room: Mediated Memory and Identity Construction in the Gaelic-speaking Hebrides of Scotland, Nostalgia

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2020, February)
From the Crofthouse to the Cutting Room: Mediated Memory and Identity Construction in the Gaelic-speaking Hebrides of Scotland, Nostalgia. Paper presented at 2nd Global Interdisciplinary Conference, Amsterdam

Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes

Book Chapter
Maclean, D. (2019)
Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes. In C. Batty, M. Berry, K. Dooley, B. Frankham, & S. Kerrigan (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production (19-31). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21744-0_2
This chapter uses documentaries to examine the processes, thinking and practices that a filmmaker undergoes, from the initial idea through to production. It will consider how ...

Oral History Methodologies

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2018, May)
Oral History Methodologies. Paper presented at 12th International Jazz Research Conference, Graz, Austria

Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw

Journal Article
Maclean, D. (2018)
Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw. International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, 11(1), 6-28
This article considers the role and place of Gaelic television output looking at how Gaelic content was delivered prior to the creation of BBC Alba in 2008 and up to the prese...

The Angel's Share: Jazz, Whisky and the Rural Economy

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2017, May)
The Angel's Share: Jazz, Whisky and the Rural Economy. Paper presented at Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals, Sienna

2017Scarp: An ethnographic study of a lost culture.

Digital Artefact
Maclean, D. (2017)
2017Scarp: An ethnographic study of a lost culture. [Carnegie Trust]

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