Dr Ciara Chambers is Senior Lecturer in Film & Screen Media, University College Cork, President of the International Association for Media & History, a board member of Northern Ireland Screen and Chair of the Northern Ireland Moving Image Heritage and Archive Working Group. She is also an advisor to Atticus Education, the digital education company established by Oscar-winning film producer Lord David Puttnam. She is author of Ireland in the Newsreels (Irish Academic Press, 2012) and Outsider Cinema: Amateur and Independent Filmmaking in Northern Ireland, 1929-1989 (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), co-editor of Researching Newsreels (Palgrave, 2018) and has contributed chapters on archives, newsreels and amateur film to various journals and edited collections. She is currently working on the Make Film History project in partnership with Kingston University, BBC, the British Film Institute, Northern Ireland Screen and the Irish Film Institute. She was scriptwriter and associate producer of Ireland in the Newsreels, a six-part BAI-funded television series broadcast on TG4 and producer of the historical play Souls, Shadows and Secrets.

Newsreels; Amateur Film; Film History; Archives; Archival Appropriation; Use of Moving Images in Education.

Newsreels; Film History; Contemporary Cinema; Irish Non-fiction Film; Amateur Film; Archives and Archival Appropriation; Creative Reuse.

Student Name	Supervision Period	Thesis Title
Bob Jackson		Based on a True Story: Cinematic Approaches to the Past
Kasandra O'Connell		Out of Focus: The History and Development of Film Preservation in Ireland
Catherine Owens		Investigating new methods of engagng audiences in artist-driven artistic approaches to immersive VR/AR
Kane Geary O'Keeffe		Framing Diegetic Screen Technologies in Contemporary Horror Cinema
Eleanor McSherry		A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Autism in Television Drama

 

Student Name	Supervision Period	Thesis Title
Ellen Scally (University College Cork)	2025	Complicating the Nation: The Archival Legacies of Amateur Cine-culture in Ireland (1900-1984)
Ken Griffin (Ulster University)	2014	The Impact of Archival Silences on Historical Narratives surrounding Ulster Television
Orla Lafferty (Ulster University)	2013	Reporting the 'Troubles' at Ulster Television: An Archival Exploration from 1968-1998
Jennifer Mooney (Ulster University)	2012	The Irish in Vaudeville and Early American Cinema