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!
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.
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).