Dr Peter Deakin

Board membership (EDI Lead): The Met (live music and theatre venue)
2020

Recognition Type Committee/board/panel member or chair (external)

Description After having gained board membership at The Met (live music and theatre venue) in the summer of 2020, I quickly became their Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Lead, charged with the task of improving both their relationship with and offering to more 'marginalised' communities in the region that they service (primarily north Manchester).

In this role (and in an extension of my research interests on gender, race etc) I helped rewrite both their EDI statements and EDI policy (concerning all areas of the organisation, including board, staff and programming levels). For context, The Met, like a lot of other arts establishments, have traditionally found it difficult to cater for more “marginalised” demographics (they are a charity organisation, charged with providing both a space and arts content for the local community especially), and after I pushed them for an audit (staff and users), I led (and am currently leading) the new EDI strategy work to ensure that we meet the needs of some of the underrepresented groups they are seeking. Progress is ongoing of course, but hopefully this will translate to broader reach etc (this can/will be measured quantitively and qualitatively against our continued auditing practices too).

URL https://themet.org.uk/

Recognition Type	Committee/board/panel member or chair (external)
Description	After having gained board membership at The Met (live music and theatre venue) in the summer of 2020, I quickly became their Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Lead, charged with the task of improving both their relationship with and offering to more 'marginalised' communities in the region that they service (primarily north Manchester). In this role (and in an extension of my research interests on gender, race etc) I helped rewrite both their EDI statements and EDI policy (concerning all areas of the organisation, including board, staff and programming levels). For context, The Met, like a lot of other arts establishments, have traditionally found it difficult to cater for more “marginalised” demographics (they are a charity organisation, charged with providing both a space and arts content for the local community especially), and after I pushed them for an audit (staff and users), I led (and am currently leading) the new EDI strategy work to ensure that we meet the needs of some of the underrepresented groups they are seeking. Progress is ongoing of course, but hopefully this will translate to broader reach etc (this can/will be measured quantitively and qualitatively against our continued auditing practices too).
URL	https://themet.org.uk/

Research Supervisors' Network (UK Council for Graduate Education - UKCGE)
2019

Recognition Type Committee/board/panel member or chair (external)

Description As part of the UK Council for Graduate Education, I became a member of the Research Supervisors' Network (which provides a forum for discussion & learning, enabling supervisors to support each other in enhancing their own practice) in July 2019.

URL https://ukcge.ac.uk/networks/research-supervisors

Recognition Type	Committee/board/panel member or chair (external)
Description	As part of the UK Council for Graduate Education, I became a member of the Research Supervisors' Network (which provides a forum for discussion & learning, enabling supervisors to support each other in enhancing their own practice) in July 2019.
URL	https://ukcge.ac.uk/networks/research-supervisors

Race Equality Charter (REC): Self-Assessment Team member
2019 - 2022

Recognition Type Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)

Description As part of the self-assessment team for the Race Equality Charter (which aims to improve the representation, progression and success of minority ethnic staff and students within higher education), we worked collectively towards obtaining the award whilst examining data from university-wide surveys, focus groups, etc, whilst assembling an Action Plan and so on to meet those aims and this agenda.

Affiliated Organisations Advance HE

Research Themes Building Prosperity, Equity & Community

URL https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/equality-charters/race-equality-charter

Recognition Type	Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)
Description	As part of the self-assessment team for the Race Equality Charter (which aims to improve the representation, progression and success of minority ethnic staff and students within higher education), we worked collectively towards obtaining the award whilst examining data from university-wide surveys, focus groups, etc, whilst assembling an Action Plan and so on to meet those aims and this agenda.
Affiliated Organisations	Advance HE
Research Themes	Building Prosperity, Equity & Community
URL	https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/equality-charters/race-equality-charter

Consultancy workshop (for Odd Arts): ‘Masculinity and Misogyny: Political and Historical Contexts’
2023 - 2023

Recognition Type Consultancy

Description Odd Arts, based in Manchester, use theatre “to challenge inequalities and increase opportunities for young people facing the greatest level of discrimination and disadvantage”. They reached out to request some training/consultancy for their staff on areas of (toxic) masculinity and gender more broadly after they found themselves stumbling with how to deal with this more effectively with their users. This led to the delivery of a 5-hour workshop (in June ’23) whereby I offered (as an extension of my research) a contracted history of our relationship with masculinity (in the west) via film, whilst attempting to harness some strong (and safe) sustained discussion along the way. This is as Odd Arts tries to wrangle with the implications and fall-out of the contemporary gendered landscape that seems to be increasingly stoking up more division and hate (this session was designed to help salve some of that and also set out, by request, to help the organisation itself understand the complexities of gender so that they can enact with gender with more comfort and confidence, especially with their users).

Following the success of this, Odd Arts also commissioned me to deliver an interactive workshop on 'British Black Masculinity' at the ‘Let’s Face Change’ clinical psychology conference at Stoller Hall in November ’23.

Research Themes Building Prosperity, Equity & Community

URL https://oddarts.co.uk/

Recognition Type	Consultancy
Description	Odd Arts, based in Manchester, use theatre “to challenge inequalities and increase opportunities for young people facing the greatest level of discrimination and disadvantage”. They reached out to request some training/consultancy for their staff on areas of (toxic) masculinity and gender more broadly after they found themselves stumbling with how to deal with this more effectively with their users. This led to the delivery of a 5-hour workshop (in June ’23) whereby I offered (as an extension of my research) a contracted history of our relationship with masculinity (in the west) via film, whilst attempting to harness some strong (and safe) sustained discussion along the way. This is as Odd Arts tries to wrangle with the implications and fall-out of the contemporary gendered landscape that seems to be increasingly stoking up more division and hate (this session was designed to help salve some of that and also set out, by request, to help the organisation itself understand the complexities of gender so that they can enact with gender with more comfort and confidence, especially with their users). Following the success of this, Odd Arts also commissioned me to deliver an interactive workshop on 'British Black Masculinity' at the ‘Let’s Face Change’ clinical psychology conference at Stoller Hall in November ’23.
Research Themes	Building Prosperity, Equity & Community
URL	https://oddarts.co.uk/

Guest Jury Member: Happy Festival Bury - short film commission
2023 - 2023

Recognition Type Other recognition

Description Happy is a Festival inspired by the work of Victoria Wood and the way she made her audiences feel. The Victoria Wood Foundation, Arts Council England, and Bury Council funded a project in which Happy Festival Bury 2023 commissioned an up-and-coming filmmaker from Greater Manchester/Lancashire to create a short film. After speaking previously on a panel discussing the late Victoria Wood as part of an earlier Festival offering, I was asked to help decide what film would be commissioned to this end as a jury member. The commissioned film was then shown as part of the Happy Festival in May 2023 and continued to be showcased in the Moving Image Gallery at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre until 19th August 2023

URL https://happyfestival.org/

Recognition Type	Other recognition
Description	Happy is a Festival inspired by the work of Victoria Wood and the way she made her audiences feel. The Victoria Wood Foundation, Arts Council England, and Bury Council funded a project in which Happy Festival Bury 2023 commissioned an up-and-coming filmmaker from Greater Manchester/Lancashire to create a short film. After speaking previously on a panel discussing the late Victoria Wood as part of an earlier Festival offering, I was asked to help decide what film would be commissioned to this end as a jury member. The commissioned film was then shown as part of the Happy Festival in May 2023 and continued to be showcased in the Moving Image Gallery at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre until 19th August 2023
URL	https://happyfestival.org/

Podcast: -Épisode #6 : Fight Club, de mâle en pire - Cinérameuf le podcast (Trans. Episode #6: Fight Club, from male to worse – Cinérameuf the podcast)
2022 - 2022

Recognition Type Other recognition

Description French film journalist, Alice Creusot, reached out to me to record this special podcast on the film Fight Club (1999) and the toxic masculinity messages in and beyond the film (and into the manosphere)

URL https://cinerameufpodcast.com/tous-les-episodes/episode-6-fight-club-de-male-en-pire/

Recognition Type	Other recognition
Description	French film journalist, Alice Creusot, reached out to me to record this special podcast on the film Fight Club (1999) and the toxic masculinity messages in and beyond the film (and into the manosphere)
URL	https://cinerameufpodcast.com/tous-les-episodes/episode-6-fight-club-de-male-en-pire/

Guest Panel Member: Happy Festival Bury - Victoria Wood symposium
2021 - 2021

Recognition Type Other recognition

Description Along with Jasper Rees (author of 'Let’s Do It', Victoria Wood’s authorised biography), two of Victoria Wood's musical directors (David Firman and Nigel Lilley), and comedy writer and performer Vikki Stone, I sat on a panel for a public facing symposium on the life and work of the late comedian, actress, and writer, Victoria Wood as part of the Happy Festival Bury.

URL https://happyfestival.org/

Recognition Type	Other recognition
Description	Along with Jasper Rees (author of 'Let’s Do It', Victoria Wood’s authorised biography), two of Victoria Wood's musical directors (David Firman and Nigel Lilley), and comedy writer and performer Vikki Stone, I sat on a panel for a public facing symposium on the life and work of the late comedian, actress, and writer, Victoria Wood as part of the Happy Festival Bury.
URL	https://happyfestival.org/

Guest Panel Member: post-screen discussion of Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas, 2019)
2020 - 2020

Recognition Type Other recognition

Description Requested to sit on the post-screening panel for a special screened event at HOME Manchester concerning the film Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas, 2019)

Recognition Type	Other recognition
Description	Requested to sit on the post-screening panel for a special screened event at HOME Manchester concerning the film Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas, 2019)

Guest Jury Member: KinoFilm Manchester International Short Film Festival
2018 - 2018

Recognition Type Other recognition

Description Requested to sit on the judging panel for KinoFilm Manchester International Short Film Festival

URL https://kinofilm.org.uk/

Recognition Type	Other recognition
Description	Requested to sit on the judging panel for KinoFilm Manchester International Short Film Festival
URL	https://kinofilm.org.uk/

Peer review book chapter: 'Send in the Clowns: Joker, Vigilante films and Populist Revolt'
2021 - 2021

Recognition Type Peer reviewer for journal/other publication venue

Description I was asked to peer review a book chapter entitled 'Send in the Clowns: Joker, Vigilante Films and Populist Revolt' (by Scott Doidge and Adrian Rosenfeldt), for an upcoming (now published) edited collection: Redmond, S. (Ed.). (2023). Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy. Routledge.

Recognition Type	Peer reviewer for journal/other publication venue
Description	I was asked to peer review a book chapter entitled 'Send in the Clowns: Joker, Vigilante Films and Populist Revolt' (by Scott Doidge and Adrian Rosenfeldt), for an upcoming (now published) edited collection: Redmond, S. (Ed.). (2023). Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy. Routledge.

'The Cool Pose' @ the 'UCU Equality Research' conference
2024 - 2024

Recognition Type Presentation - external invited/selected conference contribution (talk/poster)

Description Under the banner of 'Nothing Without Us - Pride, Diversity, Respect and Liberation', UCU organised their first hybrid equality research conference (at the University of Manchester). Here I delivered a paper exploring the reductionist parameters of the theoretical notion of the 'cool pose' (Majors & Billson, 1993) on the lives of young black men in Britain.

Research Themes Building Prosperity, Equity & Community

URL https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/13595/UCU-equality-research-conference-2024

Recognition Type	Presentation - external invited/selected conference contribution (talk/poster)
Description	Under the banner of 'Nothing Without Us - Pride, Diversity, Respect and Liberation', UCU organised their first hybrid equality research conference (at the University of Manchester). Here I delivered a paper exploring the reductionist parameters of the theoretical notion of the 'cool pose' (Majors & Billson, 1993) on the lives of young black men in Britain.
Research Themes	Building Prosperity, Equity & Community
URL	https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/13595/UCU-equality-research-conference-2024

'There's no School like the Old School: Fraternal Kinship, Bromance and the Bromantic Comedy' @ 'Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue Between Screen Studies And Kinship Studies'
2024 - 2024

Recognition Type Presentation - external invited/selected conference contribution (talk/poster)

Description Clawson (1980) suggests that, “Fraternal associations are characterized by the fact that their members use kinship as a model relationship, defining themselves as brothers (or more rarely as sisters) and accepting that definition to create and sustain relationships among biologically unrelated individuals”. This paper explored the phenomenon of the “fraternity” and its ties to kinship via a very deliberate exploration of its most projected cinema: bromance and the bromantic comedy.

Seemingly tied to an overarching kinship model (or rather principle), where men are asked to forge and importantly maintain an unwavering bond with each other (away from the apparent shallow and capricious bonds between a man and a woman), this paper examined the projected gendered and social messages within this cinema, with an aim to evaluate how the model of kinship is utilised to either prop or upend heteronormativity and the modern patriarchy.

Are the projection of male-to-male kinship as expressed in this genre examples of radical honesty within a “post-patriarchal” promise (Alberti, 2009), or rather do these fraternal projections have an emphasis on “hegemonic brotherhood” (Beasley and Brook, 2019) that is intent of
perpetuating social hierarchies; a “fictive kin relation” that “can help us understand the ways in which relations among men contribute to the maintenance of male dominance” (Clawson, 1980)?

Research Themes Building Prosperity, Equity & Community

URL https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/ffkcw/

Recognition Type	Presentation - external invited/selected conference contribution (talk/poster)
Description	Clawson (1980) suggests that, “Fraternal associations are characterized by the fact that their members use kinship as a model relationship, defining themselves as brothers (or more rarely as sisters) and accepting that definition to create and sustain relationships among biologically unrelated individuals”. This paper explored the phenomenon of the “fraternity” and its ties to kinship via a very deliberate exploration of its most projected cinema: bromance and the bromantic comedy. Seemingly tied to an overarching kinship model (or rather principle), where men are asked to forge and importantly maintain an unwavering bond with each other (away from the apparent shallow and capricious bonds between a man and a woman), this paper examined the projected gendered and social messages within this cinema, with an aim to evaluate how the model of kinship is utilised to either prop or upend heteronormativity and the modern patriarchy. Are the projection of male-to-male kinship as expressed in this genre examples of radical honesty within a “post-patriarchal” promise (Alberti, 2009), or rather do these fraternal projections have an emphasis on “hegemonic brotherhood” (Beasley and Brook, 2019) that is intent of perpetuating social hierarchies; a “fictive kin relation” that “can help us understand the ways in which relations among men contribute to the maintenance of male dominance” (Clawson, 1980)?
Research Themes	Building Prosperity, Equity & Community
URL	https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/ffkcw/

'Black, British, Male' @ the 'Let's Face Change' conference
2023 - 2023

Recognition Type Presentation - external invited/selected conference contribution (talk/poster)

Description Following the successful delivery of a training workshop in the summer of 2023, Odd Arts also asked me to deliver another workshop on their behalf at the 'Let's Face Change' conference at Stoller Hall, Manchester (24/11/23). This was primarily a clinical psychology event (with mental health at its centre), partnered by Odd Arts, where the request was for me to deliver a workshop on ‘Black, British, Male’ identities (where I extended/extrapolated my research in this area into a practical workshop for an audience of mental health practitioners and beyond).

Research Themes Building Prosperity, Equity & Community

URL https://www.letsfacechange.com/

Recognition Type	Presentation - external invited/selected conference contribution (talk/poster)
Description	Following the successful delivery of a training workshop in the summer of 2023, Odd Arts also asked me to deliver another workshop on their behalf at the 'Let's Face Change' conference at Stoller Hall, Manchester (24/11/23). This was primarily a clinical psychology event (with mental health at its centre), partnered by Odd Arts, where the request was for me to deliver a workshop on ‘Black, British, Male’ identities (where I extended/extrapolated my research in this area into a practical workshop for an audience of mental health practitioners and beyond).
Research Themes	Building Prosperity, Equity & Community
URL	https://www.letsfacechange.com/

The Elders Project - Taramind Centre (Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust)
2024

Recognition Type Presentation - other

Description Working with a Clinical Psychologist (who works for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust), we were commissioned to lead and deliver two ‘Elders Project’ workshops – which aim to examine and explore Black mental health – at the Taramind Centre (an 89-bed male medium secure facility), which is ran by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and is situated in Solihull.

The centre provides assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for men who have been assessed as needing care in a medium secure environment and aims to serve the population in central and north Birmingham, as well as offering specialist services for complex, challenging and long term care.

The ‘Elders Project’ emerged from a response to the literature regarding the disadvantage of black African-Caribbean service users within mental health settings. The Project was initiated to offer a proactive approach to supporting service users during their recovery journey with a specific focus on the difficult period of transition and discharge.

Our two distinctive (and very popular) monthly workshops (which unfortunately we had to suspend due to other workload commitments at the University of Salford; these were delivered over the summer break) were on the themes of perception, representation and risk for Black Men (especially) in the UK.

We are now at a stage where want to start writing up our findings and reflections in a co-authored work.

Affiliated Organisations Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

URL https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/our-services/secure-care-and-offender-health/medium-secure-forensic-service-for-men/tamarind-centre/

Recognition Type	Presentation - other
Description	Working with a Clinical Psychologist (who works for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust), we were commissioned to lead and deliver two ‘Elders Project’ workshops – which aim to examine and explore Black mental health – at the Taramind Centre (an 89-bed male medium secure facility), which is ran by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and is situated in Solihull. The centre provides assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for men who have been assessed as needing care in a medium secure environment and aims to serve the population in central and north Birmingham, as well as offering specialist services for complex, challenging and long term care. The ‘Elders Project’ emerged from a response to the literature regarding the disadvantage of black African-Caribbean service users within mental health settings. The Project was initiated to offer a proactive approach to supporting service users during their recovery journey with a specific focus on the difficult period of transition and discharge. Our two distinctive (and very popular) monthly workshops (which unfortunately we had to suspend due to other workload commitments at the University of Salford; these were delivered over the summer break) were on the themes of perception, representation and risk for Black Men (especially) in the UK. We are now at a stage where want to start writing up our findings and reflections in a co-authored work.
Affiliated Organisations	Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
URL	https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/our-services/secure-care-and-offender-health/medium-secure-forensic-service-for-men/tamarind-centre/

Academic Fellow (HEA)
2020

Recognition Type Professional association (e.g. president, fellow or member of a society or discipline network)

Description Academic Fellow status at The Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education

Affiliated Organisations Advance HE

URL https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/

Recognition Type	Professional association (e.g. president, fellow or member of a society or discipline network)
Description	Academic Fellow status at The Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education
Affiliated Organisations	Advance HE
URL	https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/

Associate Membership: British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)
2010

Recognition Type Professional association (e.g. president, fellow or member of a society or discipline network)

Description Associate membership. The association is international in its membership and research interests in theories, philosophies, practices, and histories of film, television and screen studies.

URL https://www.baftss.org/

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