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Faculty

Grace Brennan

Education Background

2020–2021 MRes Communication Design, Royal College of Art, UK

2014–2018 BA (Hons) Animation, Northumbria University, UK

Previous Employment

2022–Present External Examiner / Moderator, Northumbria University, UK

2025–2026 Assistant Researcher, “Flourish” Project, Northumbria University, UK

2024–2025 Lecturer in Digital Arts and Media, University of Greenwich, UK

2022–2024 Senior Lecturer / Pathway Lead, Media Production (FE), Ravensbourne University London, UK

2021–2022 Lecturer in Moving Image, University of Winchester, UK

Research Interests

Tactile animation practices; analogue and digital animation; embodied and tactile knowledge-led pedagogies.

Research ResultsSelected

2026 174 BPM 12FPS: Craft Animation and Subcultural Image-Making in Contemporary Drum and Bass and Jungle Visual Culture. Under review (Synoptique)

2025 Hands-On Learning: Why Touch Still Matters in Animation. Animation Studies Blog.

Available at: https://blog.animationstudies.org/hands-on-learning-why-touch-still-matters-in-animation/

2023 Reclaiming Presence: Haptic Thinking and the Politics of Touch in the Age of Digital Animation. University of Greenwich, UK

2022 Embodied Animation Pedagogy: Supporting Neurodivergent Learners through Tactile

Moving Image Practices. Ravensbourne University London, UK

2021 Haptic Thinking: Tactility and Tacit Knowledge through Animation Methodologies. Royal College of Art