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The Screenwriting Research Network is a research group consisting of scholars, reflective practitioners, and practice-based researchers interested in research on screenwriting. The aim is to rethink the screenplay in relation to its histories, theories, values, and creative practices.

The network commenced in 2006 within the Louis Le Prince Research Centre, at the University of Leeds.

During the last fourteen years, the network has grown rapidly. Yearly conferences have attracted a growing number of people around the world to share experiences and discuss the problematics of screenwriting research.

The conferences have taken place in Leeds (2008), Helsinki (2009), Copenhagen (2010), Brussels (2011), Sydney (2012), Madison, Wisconsin (USA) (2013) Potsdam-Babelsberg (2014), London (2015), Leeds (2016), Dunedin, NZ, (2017), Milan (2018), Porto (2019), online in Oxford (2021), Vienna (2022), Columbia, Missouri (2023, USA) and Olomouc (2024, Czech Republic). The 17th international, in-person conference is scheduled to take place on 17 – 20 September 2025 in Adelaide, Australia. The conference website can be accessed here when available later in 2024.

The countries represented in bids to host a conference are: United Kingdom (Oxford) in 2026; Italy (Milano) in 2027; and Rumania (Bucharest) in 2028. Watch this space for confirmation.

In May 2015, the SRN also widened the geographic spread of its conferences to Latin America, with an inaugural regional, Special Conference in Santiago, Chile. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 13th SRN Annual Conference, originally due to take place in 2020 in Oxford (UK), was replaced by the SRN2021 Seminar Series Online, still based in Oxford. The Network is planning another regional conference in Florianopolis, Brasil, in 2026. WATCH THIS SPACE for more information.

 

NEW MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL!

​At our AGM, held on 13th September at the 16th International Conference in Olomouc, two members (Anna Weinstein, Secretary, and Rose Ferrell, Web Coordinator) stepped down from their positions in the Executive Council. They were replaced by Romana Turina, of the Arts  University Bournemouth, and Juan Carlos Carillo Cal y Mayor, from the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico. Chair, Rosanne Welch, has stepped down from her position as Chair to become Vice-chair. The Executive Committee will now consider roles in the coming weeks, to continue to serve the membership.
Being on the EC is a very pleasurable task, involving monthly chats online with lovely colleagues and light duties! You can get a sense of the roles on the Executive Council and what they entail by checking out the current members’ bios:
https://screenwritingresearch.com/category/executive-council/
.. and by reading this short description of roles and responsibilities here. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact our Executive Council Secretary or any current or past member. To get more of your membership, why not consider becoming a member of our EC at the next AGM in September in Adelaide? Nominations will open early in 2025.
Sincerely,
Your SRN Executive Council
Annual Report 2024

Here is the link here to the recording of our AGM, held in Olomouc in September 2024.

Meanwhile, here is a cool link to the presentation given by our Chair, Rosanne Welch, at the AGM in Columbia, Missouri, in 2023.

Hope to see you at the 17th Annual International Conference in Adelaide in September 2025!

Working Groups Update

Information about our Working Groups is included here.

The latest Seminar run by the Comparative Screenwriting Working Group (Romana Turina) is available here.

This is the last Seminar for this academic year. Stay tuned for more later in 2024.

 

The Creative Play Working Group held their 4th Seminar on 1st May 2024. Contact Dr Chris Neilan for more details:

C.Neilan@napier.ac.uk

Latest Meeting of the Executive Council

Here is the photo taken at the August meeting of your Executive Council, on 22 August 2024. If you would like to know more about what being on the Executive Council means, click here.

L to R: Rosanne Welch (Chair), Clarissa Miranda (to be new Web Coordinator), Anna Weinstein (Secretary), Bottom L to R: Rose Ferrell (Web Coordinator), Lucian Georgescu (Conversations Coordinator), Hugo Arciniegas (Early Career Representative).