{"id":1,"name":"tvpm","url":"https:\/\/tvpeoplemake.com","description":"TV PEOPLE MAKE (TVPM): Researcher Statement\r\n\r\nI am a practice-based researcher who explores how collaborative storytelling teams can be co-created across industry, education, and community settings to produce meaningful screen content. My research is driven by experimentation in real-world television and media production environments, where the creative process itself becomes a site of inquiry.\r\n\r\nThrough the TV PEOPLE MAKE (TVPM) model, I bring together students, graduates, educators, industry professionals, and community contributors to co-produce content for broadcast and digital platforms. The research investigates how these collaborative production environments can simultaneously generate high-quality screen content and develop the professional skills required by contemporary broadcasters and employers.\r\n\r\nMy work examines the relationship between storytelling, teamwork, and employability, asking how participatory production practices can help emerging media professionals develop the creative, technical, and interpersonal skills needed to enter and sustain careers in the screen industries.\r\n\r\nDrawing on theories of experiential learning, communities of practice, and participatory media, I use television production as both a creative outcome and a research methodology. The aim is to understand how co-production can foster agency, confidence, inclusion, and industry readiness while creating content that reflects diverse voices and local stories.\r\n\r\nAt its heart, TVPM is built on a simple principle:\r\n\r\nTelevision is not only something people watch\u2014it is something people make together.\r\n\r\nResearch Focus\r\n\r\n* Participatory television and screen storytelling\r\n* Industry\u2013education collaboration\r\n* Graduate employability and transition into the screen industries\r\n* Communities of practice and experiential learning\r\n* Inclusive and grassroots media production\r\n* Co-production as creative research methodology\r\n* Television production as a site for skills development and social impact\r\n\r\nPhD project TV PEOPLE MAKE: Participative Storytelling Practice with University, Local Community and Local TV, where the production process itself becomes evidence for understanding how collaborative television-making can support both creative excellence and career development.","link":"https:\/\/tvpeoplemake.com\/?author=1","slug":"tvpm","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b5f30358fd64154c291cad04eb61edf52284279c2351d84c6738e4c8fb2f64c7?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b5f30358fd64154c291cad04eb61edf52284279c2351d84c6738e4c8fb2f64c7?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b5f30358fd64154c291cad04eb61edf52284279c2351d84c6738e4c8fb2f64c7?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvpeoplemake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvpeoplemake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}