Dr Jenny Holt
GLAD Secretary

Jenny is SODA MA Coordinator and Reader, at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and member of the Manchester School of Art Research Centre and SODA research hub leadership team.  Jenny’s background in fine art and film practice/research and documentary television production informs her  approach to learning and teaching and ignited an interest in how art and industry might cross-pollinate in the learning and teaching environment.  She is particularly interested in the synergy between practice, research and education towards an interdependent critical culture in the Higher Education environment, and pedagogies of filmmaking in the art and design context.

Jenny’s current practice-led research is concerned with dialogues between concepts, processes and poetics of socially-engaged documentary film and landscape, environment and work. Forthcoming research develops approaches to film practice as collaborative method in interdisciplinary research exploring landscape-scale rewilding and the future of nature-based economies. Her work has screened at film festivals and venues nationally and internationally.