Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is an award-winning filmmaker, TEDx speaker, psychoanalytic scholar, and coach. Her work spans documentary, video essays, and research on ethics, creativity, and human experience. She supervises PhD students internationally and supports researchers and creatives through mentoring and life coaching. She is the founder of Relational AI Studies and Coaching™ and writes widely on human–AI relationships, memory, and care.
Since 2012 Piotrowska has embarked on a series of films and theatre work set in Harare, Zimbabwe, based on her de-colonial research funded by the British Council, the British Academy, the European Union and the Strategic England grants The work explores the dynamics of history, identity, memory and gender-relations with films such as Escape (2016) or Repented (2019) and Wash (2023) which was then given a distinction at the World Health Organisation festival
Piotrowska is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy with particular interest in PhD supervision. Her work has been exploring the relationship between creative practice research and theory.
Piotrowska has also contributed to non-academic publications and blogs including Times Higher. Between 2014-2020 she served as a member of the Executive Committee of the British Association for Film and Screen Studies and was the Chair for the Practice Research Awards within BAFTSS. In summer of 2022 she curated and directed the Visible Evidence’s network’s international conference at the University of Gdansk Poland, She is on the General Council of the organisation.
Piotrowska was the Head of Film, Media and Performing Arts at the University for the Creative Arts in 20/22 and is a Visiting Research Professor at Oxford Brookes and the University of Gdansk.
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