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James Staunton-Price is a filmmaker, lecturer, and researcher in anti-extractive nonfiction filmmaking pedagogy in higher education. His AHRC-funded PhD with SWWDTP is situated between Aberystwyth and UWE Bristol, jointly supervised by Kim Knowles and Steve Presence. James analyses initiatives which respond to the material and social implications of climate and ecological trouble, the contexts in which initiatives operate, and the implications of theory for methods of nonfiction filmmaking and pedagogy. The research is practice-based, where the practice is delivering filmmaking pedagogy which aims toward a (still distant) regenerative or steady-state filmmaking. James’s interests include documentary film, the film and television industries, political ecology, degrowth, new materialism and pedagogy for social change. James is an experienced lecturer in nonfiction filmmaking (University of Brighton 2009-10; MET Film School 2011-15; UCL Anthropology 2015-20) an HEA fellow and an albert Education Partnership tutor. He is a subject editor for SWW’s Questions Journal, a contributor to the AHRC Global Green Media Network, the Entertainment Net Zero Alliance, UWE’s Digital Cultures Research Centre & Screen Industries Research Group, Aberystwyth’s Centre for Material Thinking and is presenting his research at the FilmForum22 conference, Udiné. James's research and lecturing is grounded in his experience as an artist and filmmaker. He has a BA in Fine Art (Newcastle 1999) and an MA in Documentary Direction from the National Film and Television School (NFTS, 2006). He was a member of live cinema artists the Light Surgeons 1999-2003) and directed films for broadcast (including Channel 4 and BBC) festival (including Sheffield, Leipzig, Hotdocs) and exhibition contexts (Wellcome Trust, Hayward Gallery, Tate).