Ian McCormick, M.A. (University of St Andrews), Ph.D (University of Leeds)
Freelance Film Director, Academic Researcher and Media Consultant.
Academic Experience
Dr Ian McCormick served as Professor in Community Regeneration and the Arts at the University of Northampton until 2009. He has also worked in literary and cultural studies (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer 1993-2004). He has a solid commitment to social inclusion projects.
Communications, Participation and Engagement
Project Delivery and Consultancy for major funded projects on voluntary sector Communications and Showcasing: Twelve Toolkits (£50k; 2004/2005); Going Public: Third Sector Multi-Media Training (£46k; 2006/7). These publications and media projects were developed with third sector partners.
He is currently writing a book called International Perspectives on Community Film.
Film Production as Director, Editor, or Consultant
Ian has served as the producer, director, and post-production editor in 17+ major films for Public Services and the non-profit sector since 2003. Recent work has been undertaken for Birmingham City Council and South Staffordshire Health (Addiction and Recovery Journeys 2009-11); DVD film on Creativity in Schools and the role of Governors (Bright Space / creative Partnerships, Birmingham 2010).
Commissions included a DVD to celebrate Birmingham City Council’s Artsfest 2006; Housing (Market Harborough District Council); National LGBT Consortium; Derbyshire NHS Disability Equality Scheme; CAN Drugs, Alcohol, Homelessness; Eligibility and Charging for Social Care Services; LGBT Youth Consortium; Support Needs of the Roma Community (Derby PCT); Birmingham Ethnic Education Advisory Service Jubilee.
Public Events and Civic Responsibility
Regional Arts/Community Development Event with 4 major international speakers and 200 participants (The Potlatch, The University of Northampton, 2004).
Designed and delivered a three-day International Community Film Festival in September 2006 and 2008. The festivals received over 300 community development films.
The Festival received excellent coverage on the BBC and in The Guardian. Please see www.icff.info for further information.
Our International Community Film Forum now has over 1,370 members worldwide. You can also join us on Twitter. (“PostFilm”)
Educational Qualifications
1989 MA (Hons) (University of St Andrews)
Awarded Lawson Memorial Prize and Class Medal (1985) and King James VI Prize (1989)
St Salvator’s College, The University of St Andrews
1994 Ph.D. (University of Leeds)
Served as Professor of Community Regeneration and the Arts at the University of Northampton until 2009.
Building a more robust and effective civil society for voluntary and community organisations
Ian was the Senior Consultant responsible for Northamptonshire’s Infrastructure Investment Plan 2004 which was awarded £1.024m from the Government Office for the East Midlands/ Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Commissioned research included: social enterprise; ICT support needs; volunteering and capacity building; rural proofing; income generation and sustainability; governance; sectoral mapping; partnership mapping; marketing, communications and PR; faith groups; BME; youth support needs (£300k). In all of these projects the aim was to combine approaches based on action and reflection …
Northampton
Regeneration
As a Consultant for the Third Sector/Public Services and the Local Area Agreement (LAA): developed strategy for community cohesion; youth development; rural development; each of these areas with local, regional or national perspectives. The emphasis in these projects was community engagement through empowering the Third Sector. Also served as Deputy Chair of the LAA Public Service Board.
Public services and the Third Sector
Public Sector and Third Sector (voluntary and community): Safer and Stronger Communities Board; Children and Young People’s Partnership Board; Northamptonshire Enterprise Ltd; Older People and Healthier Communities Board.
Social Inclusion in Education
At The University of Northampton I held responsibility for External Relations and International Development (including widening access/participation).
Served as the Project Leader for English Studies with The Raising Standards Partnership Trust/AimHigher/The University of Northampton,
http://www.rspnorthants.org.uk/
Widening Participation in the Arts: published contributions to the work of the Council for College and University English (CCUE National Body) ‘myriad-minded participation’;
Drama in Education: research station leader and tutor International Research Institute 2003; 2004.
Community workshops, consultancy, guest lectures; business development with community arts organisations (2003-7)
DVD film on Creativity in Schools and the role of Governors (Bright Space, Birmingham 2010)
Volunteering
I have worked with the police liaison committee, social, services, health, housing, community cohesion etc on equality and diversity issues especially for (The Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Alliance), frontline VCS services. Volunteer project consultant for the anti-homophobic bullying report, strategy and school guide. In 2008 I was invited to take part in the George House, Windsor Palace seminars on young people and global responses to HIV where I presented recent examples of international media and health education initiatives.
I currently serve as a Trustee of the Birmingham Ethnic Education Advisory Service and have recently made a film to celebrate their Jubilee (2009)
Publications
Chapter, “Pedagogic Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Studies” in Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Studies, ed. Gary Day (Continuum, 2010)
Chapter, “Romanticism” and “Gothic” in The Palgrave Literary Studies Companion, ed. Julian Wolfreys (Palgrave 2009)
“Poststructuralist Performances” in Research Methodologies for Drama Education, ed. Judith Ackroyd (Trentham Books, 2004)
“Myriad-minded participation” in Council for College and University English News, Issue 17 (Spring 2003).
Robert Graves’s Antigua, Penny, Puce (Carcanet, 2003) edited with introduction by Ian McCormick
Robert Graves’s They Hanged My Saintly Billy (Carcanet, 2003) ed. with introduction by Ian McCormick
Sexual Outcasts 1750-1850, Volume One. Sexual Anatomies. (Routledge, June 2000)
Sexual Outcasts 1750-1850, Volume Two. Onanism. (Routledge, June 2000)
Sexual Outcasts 1750-1850, Volume Three. Sodomy. (Routledge, June 2000)
Sexual Outcasts 1750-1850, Volume Four. Prostitution. (Routledge, June 2000)
Chapter, “Graves’s Milton” in New Perspectives on Robert Graves, ed. Patrick J. Quinn (Associated University Press, 1999)
Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th century writing (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). ISBN 0415139538.
“Gay, lesbian and queer theories” in A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory 4th editon, ed Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson and Peter Brooker (Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997)
Entries: “John, Lord Hervey”; “Priapus”; “Earl of Castlehaven” and “Phallus” in the Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality, 2nd Ed. (New York: Garland Press, 1995);
Entries: “John Locke”; “British Eighteenth-Century Satire”; “Henry Fielding” in The Reader’s Guide to Literature in English, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1995)
“Alasdair Gray and the Making of the modern Scottish Grotesque” in Proceedings of the Regional Europe Conference: Voice and Form (Vitoria, 1994)