Ms Amanda Egbe

• Position:Senior Lecturer Media Production
• Department:ACE - Film and Journalism School of Arts
• Telephone:+441173282001

About me

Amanda Egbe is a Senior Lecturer in Media Production at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and leads Heritage Futures, a practice-led research programme building infrastructure for heritage at risk through archives, film, and digital systems.

Her research focuses on how cultural memory is documented, governed, protected, transformed, or lost in contexts shaped by social change, technological transformation, environmental stress, and historical inequity. Rather than treating heritage as a static object of study, Amanda’s work approaches heritage as a system, shaped by institutional decisions, digital technologies, and power and asks how these systems might be redesigned to support more equitable and resilient futures.

Heritage Futures operates as a research platform that connects material heritage (buildings, archives, objects) with digital archives, emerging technologies, creative practice, and community knowledge. The programme addresses heritage in contexts of conflict, repair, and public accountability, and is concerned with who heritage is for, who controls it, and under what conditions it is sustained into the future.

The programme is underpinned by reparative archival media, a practice-led research method that uses moving image, digital experimentation, and participatory approaches to intervene in archival systems shaped by exclusion, bias, or historical harm. In this work, film functions as a research method for documentation, ethical witnessing, and public accountability, while archives are treated as infrastructures that can be redesigned rather than neutral repositories. Reparative practice operates as a design constraint within Heritage Futures, shaping how heritage systems are built so they do not reproduce harm.

Amanda’s research is supported by multiple funding streams, including Research Investment Scheme (RIS)   HEIF knowledge exchange activity, and external heritage partnerships such as her involvement as chair of the Regional Steering Group for UnMuseum project with Black South West Network. Together, these activities form a de facto heritage research platform spanning research, public engagement, and infrastructure development.

Her work has been presented nationally and internationally through exhibitions, screenings, conferences, and invited talks, and contributes to debates on digital heritage, archival governance, and the politics of representation. Alongside her research leadership, Amanda has extensive experience in curriculum development and academic leadership, including previous roles as Course Leader for MA Creative Digital Film Production at the University of Bedfordshire and as an external examiner in media and creative practice.

Area of expertise

• Heritage Research Infrastructure

• Digital Heritage and Cultural Memory

• Reparative Archival Media

• Practice-Led Research Methods

• Archival Systems and Metadata

• Community-Engaged and Public Research

• Film and Visual Methods as Research

• Ethical and Inclusive Heritage Futures

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