Evi Karathanasopoulou

Dr Evi Karathanasopoulou

  • Deputy Head of Department for Media Production
  • Weymouth House W203, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I joined Bournemouth University in January 2014. I am a Principal Academic in Audio Production, currently serving as Deputy Head of Department for Media Production. In July 2024 I also became Deputy Head of the Experimental Media Research Centre - EMERGE. I work across theory and practice. My main area of expertise is the field of Audio Media but I teach across a number of other visual and interactive media. I studied classical music in Athens- Greece before moving to the UK to gain a 1st class (Hons) BA in Media Production: TV & Radio from the University of Sunderland (2006) and an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths College (2007) with an AHRC scholarship. I won an Award for excellence for the best Short-form Radio Report from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) for my MA work (2008). I gained my Ph.D. at the University of Sunderland (2015) with a studentship from their Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, researching radio as an intimate medium, while also teaching across UG and PG Media courses there...

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Research

Current Project: Voices From a Tide Isle: A Psychosocial Soundscape from Portland Bay

Research Team: • Prof Candida Yates (Humanities and Law) • Dr Lita Crociani-Windland (Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Psychosocial Studies; Director for the Centre of Social Dreaming: UWE • Dr Evi Karathanasopoulou (Principle Academic in Audio Production) • Dr Siobhan Lennon Patience (Visiting Researcher, CESJ and Humanities and Law and The Weymouth and Portland Community Research Network). Alex Wegman is also part of the project as a Sound Engineer.

Aims and Rationale of Project: The aim of this project is to produce a soundscape that captures the psychosocial mood and atmosphere of Portland Bay through the voices of its residents.

The project builds on recent research conducted by The Weymouth and Portland Community Research Network that focussed on the isolation and deprivation of residents in the area, whilst highlighting a need for Portland residents to develop a reparative community voice as a response to recent events on the Isle (Lane, Lennon-Patience, and Wilcocks (2022) Forgotten Towns? Hear Our Voice Report; Lennon-Wood and Marfleet (2022) Forgotten Towns Report).

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:

Quality education

"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"

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Gender equality

"Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls"

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Industry, innovation and infrastructure

"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation"

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Responsible consumption and production

"Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns"

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Journal Articles

  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2024. Podcasting, VR, AI, the metaverse and the evolution of intimacy: From ‘phantasmic radio’ to phantasmic podcasting. Radio Journal, 22 (2), 235-250.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E. and Williams, H., 2023. Podcasting as a feminist space for the disclosure of trauma and intimate embodied experience: The Heart as a case study of quiet activism. Radio Journal, 21 (1), 29-44.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2019. Atmosphere in Radio and Architecture: Using ‘The Revenge’ radio play in interdisciplinary teaching as a means to understand notions of abstraction and the tensions between materiality and immateriality in building physical and imagined spaces. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 17 (1), 113-129.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2012. Book review: Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media. Convergence: the International journal of research into new media technologies, 18 (4), 473-474.

Chapters

Conferences

  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2024. Podcasting, Politics, Feminism and the Manosphere: Where do we go from here? In: From COVID-19 to armed conflicts: radio faced with a multiplicity of crises by IDETCOM & Groupe de Recherche et d'Etudes de la Radio (GRER) 14-15 November 2024 Université Toulouse Capitole.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2024. Podcasting, VR, AI and the Evolution of Intimacy. In: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers 30 October-2 November 2024 Sheffield, UK.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., Amelidis, P., Gyori, B., Sharp, M. and Gee, M., 2023. Exploring affect in creative media practice- Panel Presentation. In: BFX Festival 20-25 November 2023 Hilton, Bournemouth.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2023. From “phantasmic radio” to "phantasmic" podcasting. In: 7th ECREA Radio and Sound Conference 6-8 September 2023 Casa Convalescència, Barcelona - Spain.
  • Williams, H. and Karathanasopoulou, E., 2022. Podcasting to Smash the Patriarchy: The Heart as a case study of quiet activism. In: The Centre for Applied Social Sciences Public Lectures 23 February 2022 The Centre for Applied Social Sciences at the University of Sunderland. https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/14654/.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E. and Williams, H., 2021. Disembodiment and The Heart: Podcasting as a Safe Space for the Discussion of Intimate Embodied Experience. In: Oral History and the Media 9-10 July 2021 https://www.ohs.org.uk/. https://www.ohs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/OHS_conf2021_programme_final.pdf.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2019. Never Static. In: Radio Studies, Practices and Futures – Guy Starkey memorial symposium 18 February 2019 University of Sunderland.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2018. Atmos[ph]ree: Using ‘The Revenge’ radio play in interdisciplinary teaching as a means to understand the tensions between materiality and immateriality in building physical and imagined spaces. In: The Radio Conference 2018 - A Transnational Forum 10-13 July 2018 Prato, Italy..
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2016. Letters to America. In: The Radio Conference 2016: Transnational Radio Encounters 5-8 July 2016 Utrecht University - Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2014. Ex-static but not Ecstatic: Digital Radio and the End of Interference. In: Starkey, G., Oliveira, M. and Stachyra, G., eds. ECREA Radio Research Section: Radio the Resilient Medium 11-13 September 2013 London. Radio: The Resilient Medium Sunderland: Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies.
  • Mitchell, C. and Karathanasopoulou, E., 2011. Communicating Sustainability. In: Parker, K. and Barrels, K., eds. MeCCSA 10-12 January 2011 Salford. Teaching Sustainable Media Practice.

Reports

Theses

  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2015. An Examination of the Concept of Intimacy in Radio Studies, Combining Mainstream and Non-Mainstream Theories and Practices. PhD Thesis. University of Sunderland - Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries.

Exhibitions

  • Karathanasopoulou, E.. Air Free. Audio Installation. 3rd Artecitya Art Science Technology Festival - THE NEW NEW, realised by TIF - HELEXPO. 83rd Thessaloniki International Fair’s Pavilion 2 - Thessaloniki, Greece. 8-16 September 2018.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E.. Air Free 2. Audio Installation. FREIRAUM in Berlin, On the State of Freedom in Europe: Exhibition, discussion, concert, performance in Berlin. ZK/U — Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik /Center for Art and UrbanisticsSiemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin. 12-17 March 2019.
  • Karathanasopoulou, E.. Air Free 2 - In Thessaloniki. Audio Installation. Freiraum Exhibition: From Berlin to Thessaloniki. LABattoir -35, 26th October Street, Thessaloniki, Greece. 17-24 May 2019.

Films

Artefacts

  • Karathanasopoulou, E., 2019. Air Free 2 - Listen to the audio and read the poems from the artwork.. Berlin - Germany & Thessaloniki- Greece.
  • Koliadimas, D., Karathanasopoulou, E. et al., 2019. How to you do: 100 constructive Provocations -Final publication of Artecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, in collaboration with ArtBOX supported by Creative Europe.. International.

PhD Students

  • Elizabeth Amisu. From 'The Masque of Blackness' to Michael Jackson: Reading the Performance of High-Status Blackness on the Early Modern Stage and in Contemporary Media, (In progress)

Profile of Teaching PG

  • MA Radio - Final Project Supervision (2020-21)

Profile of Teaching UG

  • AUDIO PRODUCTION - Level 4. I have been teaching this unit since 2013-14 and have led this unit since 2014-15. Here we give students a comprehensive introduction to audio media both in theory and pratice. Students are trained in both portable and studio recording. In 2017 I introduced binaural audio into the curriculum in response to the growing interest in VR/360 media and their diverse functions. This has proven successful and we have started to see students who continue using this technology in order to create outstanding graduate work as they move through the BA Media Production course. a
  • IDEAS DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH - Level 6. This unit prepares the students in the BA Media Production course for their Graduate Projects. We work on their ideas and help them create media solutions for a defined client and a defined audience.
  • FACTUAL PRODUCTION - Level 5. Here students work in groups in order to create Interactive Documentaries. Bringing together their knowledge of different media. This unit truly prepares students form cross-media work.
  • MEDIATED SOUND AND ITS MEANINGS - Level 5. I have been teaching this unit since 2015. I have written and deliver this theory option to students from across the Media Production department (BA Media Production, TV, Film & Scriptwriting). The content is based on my doctoral work (published online in 2015) looking at Radio as an Intimate medium and at the intimate functions of sound in visual media such as film.
  • GRADUATE PRODUCTION PROJECT - Level 6. This is the biggest unit in the BA Media Production course, worth 40 credits. I have taught in this unit since 2015-16 and have led this unit since 2016-17. I also supervise a number of student projects in the unit each year and look after a dozen other supervisors who work in the unit. The students produce incredibly diverse media work here and are given creative freedom to use one or more media in order to tackle genres and themes of their choosing. I recently worked with our marketing team in creating a showcase of this work, some of which has received international and national acclaim and exposure. Visit here to see some of this amazing student work: https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/study/courses/ba-hons-media-production/ba-hons-media-production-final-year-graduate-projects
  • CLIENT & AUDIENCE: Level 5. This unit focuses on understanding the client relationship, responding to a brief, pitching ideas, managing client expectations, and producing a solution to a specific communications challenge.

Invited Lectures

  • Stories with Sound and Radio Documentary, Project Labattoir, Thessaloniki- Greece, 01 Jun 2018 more
  • Sound and the City, Venice, Verona, Vicenza - Italy, 24 Apr 2017 more

Grants

  • Pier Journal + BU x BCP Arts Trail 2025 (Bournemouth and Poole Council, 11 Apr 2025). Awarded

External Responsibilities

Internal Responsibilities

  • Chair, Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee - Media Production Dept. 2021-22
  • Deputy Head, EMERGE - Experimental Media Research Centre. https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/emerge
  • Member of Executive Team, Academic Offences Working Group - Faculty of Media & Communications - Current
  • Unit Leader for Audio Production, Sept 2014 - Current, BA Media Production Level 4
  • Unit Leader for Ideas Development & Research, 2020- Current, BA Media Production Level 6
  • Unit Leader of The Graduate Production Project, Sept 2016- Current, BA Media Production Level 6
  • Level 4 Leader, Jan - Dec 2018, BA Media Production
  • Level 6 Leader, Sept 2015 - Jan 2018, BA Media Production
  • Member, Mock REF Review Panel for UoA34 - Current
  • Co-Chair, Delivery & Strategies Steering Group, Media Production Department - Current
  • Study Abroad Academic Coordinator, 2014-2018 & 2019-2021, Media Production Department
  • Academic Liaison for Bournemouth University, in our Partnership with Bournemouth International College (2019-2021)
  • Global Engagement Lead (2019-2021), Media Production Department
  • Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Media Production (2018-2019)
  • Member of the, Quality Assurance and Enhancement Group since 2017- Current

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Prix Europa Awards 2019 Potsdam, Germany (06 Oct 2019-12 Oct 2019)
  • Freiraum - Workshop in Carlisle, UK with community development organisation AWAZ (26 Apr 2018-29 Apr 2018)
  • Education UK Exhibition, British Council - Athens, Greece (25 Apr 2015-26 Apr 2015)

Conference Presentations

  • Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage Workshop at Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, Radio Documentary and the Formation of Urban Aesthetics - Co-Authored with Professor Andrew Crisell, 30 Mar 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Consultancy Activities

  • Digital Recording, Recirculating and Remixing Testimony - Co-Designing Standards for Digital Interventions in Holocaust Memory and Research, Participatory Workshops. University of Sussex

Attended Training

  • BAFTA albert Education Partnership - Train the Trainers, 10 Apr 2025
  • Established Supervisors Training, 13 Mar 2024, Certificate
  • Supervisory Development Training for New Supervisors, Bournemouth University, 11 Nov 2021, Certificate
  • Risk Management of Productions - Health & Safety training, 03 Nov 2021, Certificate - ScreenSkills accredited
  • Managing COVID-19 Risks on Production delivered by First Option Safety Consultants, 05 Nov 2020, Certificate
  • BAFTA albert Consortium: Carbon Literacy Standard, 14 Feb 2017, Certificate
  • ‘Safe Management of Productions’ Delivered by First Option Safety, 06 Sep 2016, Certificate on Safe Management of Productions
  • Community Radio Programming and Management. META Europe Community Media Training. Funded by Grundtvig European Funding, University of Sunderland, UK., 23 Jan 2006

Qualifications

  • PGCE in Education (Bournemouth University, 2016)
  • PhD in Radio (University of Sunderland, 2015)
  • MA in Radio (Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2007)
  • BA (Hons) in Media Production (Television and Radio) (University of Sunderland, 2006)
  • Music Diploma in Classical Harmony (Music Conservatory Philippos Nakas – Athens, Greece, 2003)

Memberships

  • Association of Internet Researchers - AoIR, Member (2024-2025),
  • Women's Academic Network (WAN) - Bournemouth University, Member (2024-),
  • MeCCSA Radio Studies Network, current, Member (2021-),
  • Experimental Media Research Centre (EMERGE) - Bournemouth University, Member (2020-), https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/emerge
  • The Higher Education Academy, Fellow (2016-),

Networks

  • MeCCSA Radio Studies Network Advisory and Action Panel https://radiostudiesnetworkreadinggroup.wordpress.com/meet-theteam/

External Media and Press