Team

Prof Paul MOORE
Director

Professor Moore joined the University of Ulster in 1999 and has since been active in the development of the creative arts/industries policy in the University. He was head of the School of Creative Arts and Technologies from 2008 to 2017 before serving a short period as head of the School of Communication and Media. He is now Director of Future Screens NI, the AHRC/Department for Communities funded creative industries cluster for NI, and is a Co-Director of Ulster’s Creative Industries Institute (CII). He was awarded a personal chair in 2009 becoming Professor of Creative Technologies, and was awarded a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship in 2014. He was Ulster University Senior Distinguished Research Champion for 2024.

Prof MichAel Alcorn
Deputy Director

Michael Alcorn is Professor of Music and Dean of Internationalisation at Queen’s University and he is Deputy Director of FutureScreensNI. He established the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s in 2001 and was head of music, film and drama at Queen’s until taking up his Faculty role in 2017. His research interests include work in sound design, multi-channel audio, live electronics and real-time music notation.

PROF Frank Lyons

Professor Frank Lyons is Dean of Research and Impact at Ulster University. He has developed an international profile as a composer and researcher with over 150 performances and exhibitions of his works having been given in China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the US, Europe, the UK and Ireland and broadcast on BBC, RTE, NPR and ABCFM by some of the world’s leading soloists and ensembles. He has developed an international network of research collaborations in the field of creative technologies and disability under the ‘Inclusive Creativity’ banner.

Prof Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson is the author of three works of non-fiction and ten novels, most recently Gull (2016). He is the co-writer (with Colin Carberry) of Good Vibrations (film and stage production) He has written plays for Radio 3 and Radio 4 and with composer Neil Martin wrote Long Story Short: the Belfast Opera in 2016. He is director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s.

Dr Declan Keeney

Dr Declan Keeney is Subject Lead in Broadcast and a co-investigator on the Future Screen NI project. His practice based research focuses on immersive experiences with a particular emphasis on fiction and non-fiction VR, AR & XR storytelling. Declan is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with extensive experience of working on large-scale grant-aided projects. He previously worked at the BBC for 13 years before coming to Queen’s.

Professor Karen Fleming

Karen is Head of the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, Belfast. As Professor of Textile Arts, she is a practicing artist, exhibits and curates internationally. Her research and supervision encompass the ecologies of creative industry, design and cross disciplinary collaboration. Her work in Future Screen NI will continue to be focussed on facilitating industry: university collaboration and dialogue through the development of an embedded culture for screen related creative products, content, design and services.

FRANK DELANEY

Frank Delaney a Senior Lecturer and Subject lead in Broadcast at Queens University. He is an award-winning filmmaker and programme-maker with an international profile. He has over twenty years experience producing, directing, writing, editing, sound designing and composing for national and international film, tv and radio productions for broadcasters such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel BBC, RTE, Channel 4, TG4, MTV, CNN and PBS (USA). His work has been broadcast across every continent and spans most genres and styles. His current practice-based research interests include documenting, storytelling and narrative for broadcast, digital, visual and sonic media and encompass a wide variety of subjects and styles.