TEACHING

Learning
& practice.

Julie is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Drama at the University of Brighton, teaching screenwriting to MA students and undergraduates. Her approach centres on creating safe, supportive learning environments where students can develop their unique voices.

University of Brighton

Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science. Teaches screenwriting at MA and undergraduate level. Member of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing. Holds a Digital Learning Partners Initiative award to develop filmmaking skills with MA and undergraduate screenwriters.

Adult & Community Teaching

Screenwriting tutor at Lighthouse Film, Brighton. Has led scriptwriting courses at Theatre Royal Brighton’s Drawing Room development programme and at Chichester Theatre (Playwriting for Older People). Ran an online screenwriting course with New Writing South and the University of Sussex.

Community & Outreach

Collaborative projects include a poetry and photography project for Mid Sussex Council; an animated film project in schools for children with special educational needs; a writing project with visually impaired students at William Moon Lodge; a radio drama project with disabled young people for community radio CROW; and writing and publication projects with schools and libraries in Newhaven and Brighton.

For many years she worked with community publishers Queenspark Books, running writing groups, publishing pamphlets and organising open mic events.

Publications

Thoughts on Teaching and Learning — in Self Narrative and Pedagogy: Stories of Experience within Teaching and Learning, ed. Hayler & Moriarty. Sense Publishers, 2017.