Creative Encounters provides opportunities and funding to enable researchers to work with creative professionals and students through a variety of media including film, animation, photography, theater, sculpture, performance, graphic design, illustration, and poetry to produce creative responses to their research.
Are you a University of Cambridge researcher looking for a creative adventure to boost your research, engage with new audiences or to get a fresh perspective on your work? Or a freelance filmmaker, illustrator or animator interested in working with and getting inspired by research? The University of Cambridge Public Engagement Team supports creative projects.
We expect that Cambridge Creative Encounters will open for applications in Spring 2025. If you have any questions regarding a potential application please contact creativeencounters@admin.cam.ac.uk
The combined skills of researchers and creative professionals bring research at Cambridge to life. Through these creative pieces, we hope to inspire and continue to reach wider audiences, to create opportunities for conversations and questions where we can each share our knowledge and understanding.
One of the long-term outcomes of the project has been continued collaboration between some of the researchers and filmmakers, films and animations have been screened in film festivals and researchers have used their outputs to reach new audiences including schools, charities, policy makers and patient groups.