Laura Taylor

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ABOUT LAURA TAYLOR

Laura has professional credits for sound recording and post-production and has had her work shown in art galleries internationally. She has also worked in commercial and community radio and has produced several short documentary films.Laura has worked as a sound consultant for UK production company Rareday on a three-part documentary series, Police Under Pressure, about South Yorkshire Police, which was broadcast on BBC2. She was Sound Designer for The Ebersole Hughes company on Mansfield 66/67 a feature documentary about the final years of Jayne Mansfield’s life, which was released in 2017 and screened internationally. During 2017 she also broadcasted a regular radio show about women in music, sound and the creative industries for Chapel FM. Laura teaches across a broad range of courses in the school and particularly enjoys bringing students from different discipline’s together to collaborate; she became a university teacher fellow for her curriculum design which brought industry collaboration into the classroom. She has extensive experience of designing curriculum at both UG and PG level, including overseas (franchise) provison and short courses. She is also a member of the Institute of Professional Sound the Audio Engineering Society and a SFHEA.Laura made a feature length documentary film about living with Dementia as part of her PhD in creative practice which was completed in 2024 and explored intimacy through self-shooting and co-production in documentary filmmaking. Her current research project, funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust, investigates working-class experiences and the role of dance education as a vehicle for socio-economic mobility in the UK. This work is shared through the podcast series Dancing Class: Moving Stories of Levelling Up; where Laura is exploring immersive sound and the relationship between, AI, technology and intimacy.