Dr Clive Nwonka is Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society at UCL, and Faculty Associate of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, UK. Nwonka’s research centres on the study of Black British and African American film, with a particular focus on the images of Black urbanity and the modes through which Black identities are shaped by representations of social environments, architecture, social and political conjunctures and the hegemony of neoliberalism within forms of Black popular culture. Nwonka has published extensively on racial inequality in the screen industries. Dr. Nwonka’s research is interdisciplinary and spans across Film Studies, literature, Cultural Studies, Black Studies and Sociology.

Elaine Lillian Joseph is an Afro-Caribbean audio describer based in London and Birmingham. She has a BA in Modern Languages (German) and English Literature and trained as a describer at ITV under Jonathan Penny. She is a founding member of SoundScribe, a global majority collective of audio describers and consultants specialising in access for performance work, arts institutions and moving image.

Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a social practice. She produces audio documentaries, collects oral histories, builds DIY radios, and works on creative projects in community settings. Alongside her artistic practice, Hannah is an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London, where she is also an AHRC-funded PhD student, working on a project considering 'listening' as a tool for unsettling entrenched hierarchies within socially-engaged art.

Dr Sarah Hayden is a writer and Associate Professor in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Southampton. Recent publications include an essay on captioning as "unvoiceover" for Angelaki, ‘In which Decibella escapes audition’ for Bricks from the Kiln and 'Me mouth noise/ fox ears twitch': the text of the artists’ book produced by secession Vienna for Charlie Prodger | The Offering Formula (2023). From 2019-2023, she led an AHRC Innovation Fellowship project on intersections of voice, text, access and art called “Voices in the Gallery” for which she worked in conjunction with Wysing Arts Centre, Nottingham Contemporary, John Hansard Gallery among others. In 2022, she collaborated with LUX

This programme is a Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative, programmed by Ben Stoll and Jessica Boyall.  It is funded by the School of Performing and Digital Arts, RHUL.