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Our research centre and groups

The Film Department at Queen Mary University of London hosts the Centre for Film and Ethics, alongside four research groups; Film Cultures, Film Philosophy, Decolonising Film, and Film Practice. Find out more about each research area below.

Centre for Film and Ethics

Interdisciplinary practice-based and theoretical work involving the intersection between film and ethics in the context of moving image research.
Centre for Film and Ethics

Film Cultures Research Group

Film Cultures cluster investigates film histories, national cinemas, and various aspects of cinema as an institution.
Film Cultures Research Group

Film Philosophy Research Group

Film Philosophy boasts research not only within two main schools of Western philosophy (continental and analytic) but in Eastern thought.
Film Philosophy Research Group

Film Practice Research Group

Film Practice investigates the formal, ethical, and philosophical processes of moving image production and exhibition.
Film Practice Research Group

Decolonising Film Research Group

Challenging not only the Global North canons of films, filmmakers, and film scholars but also the underpinnings of film studies as a discipline.
Decolonising Film Research Group

Daoism, cinema and wellbeing: Meditative Cinema

This project reframes ecology, cinema and wellbeing through the lens of Daoist philosophy, challenging Western-centric film theory and philosophy.
Daoism, cinema and wellbeing: Meditative Cinema

Autism through Cinema

This project explores autism as a condition with benefits, using cinema to examine body language, its history, and its representation on screen.
Autism through Cinema

Cinemas of Extraction: Film, Deserts and the Making of the Planetary Frontier

Exploring the rise of deserts as cinematic settings in Euro-American war and sci-fi films, reflecting themes of heat and environmental decline.
Cinemas of Extraction: Film, Deserts and the Making of the Planetary Frontier

Filming the End of Life

Island (2017) is an award-winning documentary exploring end-of-life experiences, created with hospice patients on the Isle of Wight.
Filming the End of Life

Iconic Images of Political Violence

This project explores how iconic images move from national contexts into global circulation, examining their ethical impact and audience engagement.
Iconic Images of Political Violence

Films for Peace

This project explores how films depict peacemaking, conscientious objection and pacifism, and their role in wider peace movements.
Films for Peace

Stories without Borders

A series of short documentaries by young filmmakers across five countries, exploring displacement and lived experiences through global storytelling.
Stories without Borders
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