Curriculum Vitae of Dr Paul Darke

Academic Writtings - it is our aim that some will soon be on-line

2008 Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival - Director Light House Cinemas 17 - 20 April 2008
     
2007 'It Hasn't Happened Yet ...' a new play by Liz Carr - Advisor & Producer World Premiere 22 November @ Arena in Wolverhampton
2007 www.outside-centre.info - Wolverhampton Disability Arts Festival - Director Arts Council of England funded Arts Festival
2007 Outside Centre - Radio Show (Producer - Presenter) April 2007 (every Wednesday 3 - 4 pm)

2007 - 2008
2007
2007
2007 - onwards

Philately and Disability - Heritage (Awards for All Application)
DAIL: Article - To Hell for a Heavenly Cause
Disability Now: Article - What Have Labour Done for Us
Outside Centre Disability Arts Festival (Play - Film - Website - Coordination)

2007 - 2008
May 2007 Edition
May 2007 Edition
2006 - 2007 - 2008

2006 BBC Radio 4 You and Yours Review of BBC's OUCH Web site Pod-Casts TX: 17 April 2006 on BBC Radio 4

2005
2005
2005

Introductory Essay On Normality Theory
Disability and Film Education Pack
Disability Film Catalogue

Outside Centre Commission 2003
British Film Institute - available
British Film Institute - available

2002 Pathologising Disability the Cinematic Way
5000 words - 10 pages (link is to 8500 word version)
in Film and the Problem Body edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic (forthcoming in the USA)
2002
Changing Represenation of Disability in the Media
3000 words - 8 pages
in Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments (2nd / New Edition), edited by John Swain, Colin Barnes (et al)
2002 Now I Know Why Disability Art is Drowning in the River Lethe (with thanks to Pierre Bourdieu) - - pp. 131 - 142 in Disability, Culture and Society, edited by Nick Watson and Sheila Riddell, Pearson Education, Harlow
1999 Environments With Attitude Arts Council of England
1999 The Cinematic Construction of Physical Disability as Identified Through the Application of the Social Model of Disability to Six Indicative Films Made since 1970:
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg (1970), The Raging Moon (1970), The Elephant Man (1980), Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), Duet For One (1987) and My Left Foot (1989).

The PhD in full - Supervised by Professor Richard Dyer at the University of Warwick

NEW: the missing chapter on language dropped from the final thesis

1998
Understanding Cinematic Representation of Disability
- pp. 181 - 197
in The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives, edited by Tom Shakespeare, Cassell, London
1997 Abortion and Disability: Is that Different
(co-written with Marie Claire Darke) pp. 67 - 74
in Swimming Against the Tide: Feminist Dissent on the Issue of Abortion, edited by Angela Kennedy, Open Air Books, Dublin
1997 Film and Disability: From Polemical Theory to Defining Analysis Book Four: Discursive Practices, MA Disability Studies Distance Learning Course, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, Sheffield University
1997

Everywhere: Disability on Film - pp. 10 - 16
and Eye Witness - pp. 36 - 42

Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media, edited by Anne Pointon and Chris Davies, bfi, London
1996 Sexual Politics/Disability The Sexual Politics of Disability, edited by Tom Shakespeare, Kath Gillespie-Sells and Dominic Davis, Cassell, London
1996 Research Paper: Disabled Social Workers University of Leeds and CCETSW
1995 - 2004 Book Reviews in Sociology & Disability and Society University of Leicester / Leeds
1995

Link (Central Television): An Evaluation

University of Leeds / Yorkshire TV
1994 The Elephant Man: an Analysis from a Disabled Perspective - pp.327 - 342 in Disability and Society, Vol. 9, No. 3:327-342 (University of Leeds)
1994 Distance Learning Module Writer on Special Education University of Sheffield

Employment & Journalism

Birmingham City Council
 
Lecturing:
1991-1992: Resource Library Officer
 
1991/2: Wulfrun College, W'ton
1994/5: Social Services Inspectorate
 
1992: Light House Cinema, W'ton
1996/7: Advisor on Lottery Application 1995
 
1993: University of Warwick

Birmingham Film Festival 1995

 
Medical Sch., Uni. of Newcastle 1998-2000
West Midlands Disability Arts Forum (WMDAF)
 
1996: Hackney Shape, London
1992: Founding Management Committee
 
1998: Deaf Film Festival Advisor/Chair
1994: Disability Arts Festival Curator
 
1999: Coventry University
1994 - 97: ArtLink Director

2001: Munich Film Festival Seminar/Paper
1994 - 97:Art Link 18th Event Consultant
 
2001 & 2: De Montford University
1997: Finance & Policy Committee Member
 
Arts Council of England (ACE)
1997: WMDAF Arts Lottery Application
 
1995: : Disability Video Arts Project
1997-9: Director
1995: DVAP Presentation in Paris
1998: Disability Festival Exhibition
1997: Travel Bursary - Brussels

1998: National Disability Film and Video Project Co-ordinator for ACE

2000 - 2005: Live Art Funding - www.outside-centre.com web site
1999-2000: Film-Maker/ Consultant on AVC Project
British Film Institute (bfi)
1999: London Institute Presentation
 
1995: Production Initiative
2002: Advisor to Director
1996 - 1999: Disability Committee
Journalism
1998: Writer of £500,000 Lottery Application
1994 - 96: DAM (incl. Nabil Shaban Interview)
1995: WECIL - Screening Lies?
1995: Venue 1994
2001: Disability Film Festival Appraiser
1995: Chariot Magazine
2003: Disability Catalogue
1994 - 96: Partnership (ArtLink Magazine)
2003: Disability Education Pack IYDP
1994 - 2000: Link / DAIL
 
Other
1997: Disability and Parenting
1995/99: Munich Film Festival Jury
1997 - 2002: Mailout / Coalition /
1997: Advisor to BBFC (CRASH)
1998 - 00: Disability Now (TV Reviewer)
1997: Endland (performance piece- Hull)
1998: The Scotsman - RADAR INTERVIEW: 2004
1999: Digital Art Film R&D (£5000)
1999: Artists Newsletter / 2001: SCOPE
1998/00: Leonard Cheshire Foundation: National Advocacy Officer
Media Work - Contributor to:
Outside Centre - Chief Executive
1994: Poor Dear (BBC 1)

 

2000: £30,000 Millennium Award / Site Gallery - Sheffield - Consultancy
1996: From the Edge, Over the Edge (BBC 2)
2001 The Hood (The Chair) Public Sculpture - on going
1996: Learning Zone, Open University (BBC 2)
2001: YHA Funding / 2001: YOTA - 2 Successful Projects
1996 - 97: Without Walls & English Programme (C4)   2002: www.ayada.net & brochure- ACE / YOTA
1995 - 98: Does He Take Sugar?; Woman's Hour,   2003: www.outside-centre.com
1995 - 2004: You and Yours (Radio 4); BBCWM   2004: www.disability-equality.com - UnLtd / Scope
1998: Edwina Curry Show (Radio 5)   2005: bfi Commissions -available
2002: The Message / Today Programme (Radio 4)   2006: Dis-Cover Conference /
1997 R&D of Documentary for Channel 4 on Disability and Spanish Film   2007: www.outside-centre.info
2001: Channel 4 The Idiots Season  
more information available upon request

Education, Training and Professional Qualifications
(plus some Referees) -

Higher Education:
Warwick University (PT) 1993 - 1996
PhD Disability & Film
Birmingham University (FT) 1995 - 1997
Dip. S.W. (CCETSW) - Diploma in Social Work (sample essays)
Keele University (FT) 1989 - 1990
M.A. in American Literature
Wolverhampton Polytechnic (FT) 1988 - 1989
BA (Honours) Humanities 2:2
Wolverhampton Polytechnic (FT) 1986 - 1988
Dip. H.E.
Other Courses:
Consultancy Skills for Training and Development Professionals 2002
CMPS - Sunningdale
Project Management for Practioniors - PRINCE 2002
CMPS - Sunningdale
Training the Trainer (DET in Education) 2002
Disability Equality in Education
Related Others:
Disability Partnership Leadership Bursary 2001
Millennium Commission Fellowship 2001
Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship 2000
Arts Council of England Digital Arts Bursary 1999
Wingate Scholarship 1997
Further Education (PT):
Disabiity Art Training & Employment 1996
University of Hertfordshire
Further and Adult Education Teachers Certificate 1991
City & Guilds 7307
Secondary Education:
France Hill Comprehensive 1978 - 1979
2 O'Levels: English, Government & Politics
Lord Mayor Treloar College 1977 - 1978
RSA (Typewriting)
Coney Hill School 1970 - 1977
5 CSE
Referees:
Professor Colin Barnes (Professor of Disability)
details available on request

Director of the Disability Studies Centre - Leeds - UK

David Colley (Former Chair of the BCODP)
details available on request
National Disability Arts Forum - Newcastle - UK
 
Ann Whitehurst (Artist)
details available on request
 
Outside Centre Limited - Wolverhampton - UK

- and finally - some facts surreal about Dr Paul Anthony Darke -

Contact:
E-mail: paul@darke.info
 
  telephone & fax No. (+ 00 44 1902) 716747  
  mobile (UK only) 07949 625 482  
Facts: youngest of the five sons of the late Sydney John Darke  
  nicknamed Ironside or Mother  
  a wheelchair user  
  born in Camberley, Surrey, UK on 20 January1962  
  married for 25 Years  
  full driving licence and own car  
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