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His research has previously examined media shifts in UK amateur cinematography after 1965, exploring the widespread migration of practitioners to video, or ‘magnetic’ formats. His historical discussion of the first UK amateur video competition has been published by Indiana University Press in early 2021 as part of an edited collection on global amateur filmmaking.

Heather Norris Nicholson has encouraged archival, scholarly and popular interest in amateur film for decades through her writing, teaching and community outreach. Her own inter-disciplinary research has focused upon the amateur creativity of British mean and women filmmakers. She has examined the historical development of Britain’s cinecamera-using culture and the specialist hobby press, as well as the production, circulation, interpretation and significance of people’s cine-stories in varied settings. Stories, aesthetics, visual memories relationship to place and shifting meanings as images are re-encountered beyond their original context are some of the recurring themes traceable over this evolving body of work.

He graduated from the HumanitiesFaculty of the UCU with a master’s degree in history. Since 2015, he has been working on the Urban Media Archive project at the Centre for Urban History, developing and preserving its visual and audio-visual collections. Curator of the [unarchiving] program, which is designed to promote archival heritage to the general public in non-academic forms and formats. Since 2016, he has been the founder and curator of the International Home Movie Day in Lviv. Oleksandr has also been collaborating with the Wiz-Art Film Festival since 2016, and in 2019–2020 he was the festival’s programme coordinator. In 2019, he started his current research project on the history of film amateurs’ practices in Ukraine in the second half of the 20th century.