Nelson Correia
nelson correia

Nelson Correia

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  N.Correia@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Nelson has over 20 years' experience in the Media and Communication sector, working with factual television production, documentaries, and corporate communication in the UK, and as a television news reporter and editor in Brazil. He has undergraduate degrees in Journalism (UFSC, Brazil) and Television (Edinburgh Napier), and postgraduate master's degrees in Information Technology (Glasgow Caledonian) and Media Communication (Staffordshire University).

Nelson's PhD research project, 'Film Bang Communities of Practice', started in 2021, investigates the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland over the last half-century. The project is a collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive and was awarded an Applied Research Collaborative Studentship (ARCS) by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH).

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From Film Bang to Filming Boom: Fifty Years of Career Development Strategies in the Scottish Screen Production Sector

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Correia, N. (2024, April)
From Film Bang to Filming Boom: Fifty Years of Career Development Strategies in the Scottish Screen Production Sector. Paper presented at 12th BAFTSS Conference (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) 2024, University of Sussex, Brighton
This paper demonstrates how the Scottish film and television production sector has evolved during the last half-century and discusses the strategies of Scottish-based freelanc...

Filling archival gaps through academic-industry collaborations

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Correia, N. (2023, November)
Filling archival gaps through academic-industry collaborations. Poster presented at AMIA 2023: the Annual Conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Tulsa, USA
This poster outlines key points of the Film Bang research project on the history of the Scottish film and television sector. The project is an ongoing academic-industry collab...

The role of early Channel 4 commissions in the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland

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Correia, N. (2022)
The role of early Channel 4 commissions in the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland. [Online magazine]. London
The launch of Channel 4 in 1982 coincided with a period of fundamental change in the Scottish film and television sector. Prior to that, local production activity in Scotland ...

Channel 4 - then and now - the view from Scotland: the evolution of the Channel’s relationship with the Scottish production sector

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Scott, A., & Correia, N. (2022, September)
Channel 4 - then and now - the view from Scotland: the evolution of the Channel’s relationship with the Scottish production sector. Paper presented at Channel 4: Then and Now, BFI Southbank, London
This paper examines the historic relationship between Channel 4 and the Scottish independent production sector over four decades and investigate how the opportunities and supp...

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