Jenna Ng

Jenna Ng is a multi-award-winning researcher studying digital media culture, with particular research interests in digital visual culture; creative technologies; AI and algorithmic culture and interactive storytelling. Currently Head of the School of Communication and Arts, she also leads strategic direction, leadership and management of a multi-disciplinary department of over 80 academic staff across art history, drama, journalism, communications, film and television, digital media culture, literature and creative and professional writing.

Ng's publications include the books Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013), a "Highly Recommended" CHOICE title, and The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), which won an Honourable Mention by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.

Working across a range of media, Ng also produces innovative creative research outputs with practice-based methodologies. She has produced a second screen installation for theatre performance; multimedia scholarship; video essays; and online open-access collaborative initiatives. Her latest project, a creative research website titled "The New Virtuality" (thenewvirtuality.com), won the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis and the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MECCSA) Practice-Based Research of the Year award, with its video essay winning the Learning on Screen Special Jury Prize (while nominated in the category of "Creative Reuse") and had its debut screening at the InScience Film Festival 2025 in LUX Nijmegen.