- Cultural Studies
- Creative Industries
- Film Studies
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Rajinder Dudrah serves as Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries within Birmingham City University's Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, a position he has held since joining BCU in 2016. He has significantly shaped the university's research landscape through founding the Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts (CEDIA), co-establishing the BCU India Innovation Group, and developing the Creative Industries research cluster. His academic trajectory includes prior appointments at the University of Manchester, University of Portsmouth, Cardiff University, and the University of Birmingham. Dudrah's research program critically examines cultural production across film, media, and creative sectors with specialized expertise in Bollywood cinema, Black British representation, diasporic media flows, and popular music cultures. His methodological approach integrates cultural theory with qualitative research on creative industries, recently expanding into AI-driven creative technologies and immersive art applications. This work consistently bridges academic inquiry with creative practice through global collaborations with artists and industry partners. Analysis of his recent publications reveals three dominant research trajectories: the digital transformation of South Asian cinemas (particularly Bollywood's adaptation to streaming platforms), the political economy of creative labor in global contexts, and multilingualism's role in cultural production. His scholarship demonstrates increasing interdisciplinary engagement with technology studies while maintaining core commitments to representation, diaspora, and postcolonial perspectives. Scientific Awards: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2022-2025) Dudrah has secured substantial research funding including Principal Investigatorship for the AHRC/Innovate UK project 'India-UK Creative Industries at 75' (2022), which generated 15+ creative outputs with 30 UK-India artists. As Co-Investigator on the £4 million AHRC Creative Multilingualism consortium, he developed the Slanguages research strand examining language in creative economies. He actively mentors PhD candidates and early-career researchers through structured research development programs. His institutional leadership includes directing CEDIA's initiatives on arts sector inclusion and co-founding the BCU India Innovation Group that facilitates UK-India creative industry partnerships. Current activities center on the Leverhulme-funded 'E-Bollywood' project analyzing social media and streaming platforms' impact on Hindi cinema, alongside collaborations with Warwick University and Jawaharlal Nehru University on AI-driven artistic production.










