As MACR 's Academic Coordinator, Korinna McRobert is responsible for the coordination of non-administrative tasks, including the conceptual planning of the curriculum, the recruitment of lecturers and the planning of accompanying projects (e.g. the Summer School). She also supports the teaching of the degree programme primarily in the area of media and research. She also supervises students in relation to their term papers and master's theses.

Studies

• Doctoral student at the Free University in Berlin (since June 2020)
• Master's degree: Kindheitsstudien und Kinderrechte/Childhood Studies and Children's Rights (grade 1.1) from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (2016 - 2018).
• Bachelor's degree: Video Arts Production (grade 1) from the University for the Creative Arts in England (2007 - 2011).

Languages

• English (mother tongue)
• Greek (mother tongue/fluent)
• German (fluent)

Professional activity

• University of Applied Sciences Potsdam: Academic Coordinator at MACR, since January 2022
• Free University of Berlin: Lecturer, Berlin, November 2020 - March 2022
• University of Applied Sciences Potsdam: Lecturer, Potsdam, October 2018 - July 2021

• Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA): moving past the taboo and into the postcolonial (2022). Beitrag im Zeitschrift: Society Register Journal Vol. 6 No. 2.
• Between Agency & Abuse: A Look at the Representation of Childhood Sexuality through Media and Art. Korinna McRobert (2020). Mein erstes Buch, meine Masterarbeit, im Rahmen einer gr??eren Buchreihe ¨¹ber Medien und Kinderrechte, ver?ffentlicht von dem Wochenschau/Debus Verlag in Deutschland.
• Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse as 'Children out of Place' (Kapitel 10). Akademisches Schreiben im Buch ver?ffentlicht: Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth: Global Perspectives, herausgegeben von Nadia Von Benzon & Catherine Wilkinson (2019).

• Nomination for the award for best teaching in the Department of of the Freie Universit?t, Department of Education and Psychology (2022)
• Doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (since June 2021)
• Graduates Award 2018 of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, for my Master's thesis: Between agency and abuse: a look at the representation of childhood sexuality through media and art
• Germany scholarship during the Master's programme. (2017 - 2018)
• Arts Council of England bursary for the live art-video installation ASHA (2013)

• Lockdown Poetry Series, poems based on my experiences of the Corona Lockdown and beyond. Commissioned by Dover Arts Development (DAD) as part of their DAD Artists at Home project, May-October 2020.
• Down Under Dance, screened at SHORT FILMS BY Artists, Lewisham Arthouse, London, September 2019.
• Down Under Dance, video and still images exhibited as part of the group art exhibition About Nature-Natural Art, at PlanetArt Festival of Nature , commissioned by NuArt Berlin and NABU Germany, Berlin, September 2019.
• The circle line, sound recording of the poem at Open Hause, H.34 Ehrlichhaus, Buch, Berlin, September 2016
• The circle line, sound recording of the poem shown at JRM - Le Jardin de Recherches Musicales, Paris, August 2016
• A Space, a performed poem in an intervention at HERMITAGE (II): FERAL group exhibition with artists Alix Stadtbaeumer, Alma Tischler Wood and Kathy Kenny, at David Hawkins Private Space, Berlin, September 2015.
• Grace, poem published in A POEM A DAY Anthology Calendar (2014).
• A POEM A DAY exhibition, Mu.ZEE Oostende, Belgium, November 2014 - February 2015.
• Sticks and Stones, part of the David Chipperfield exhibition,Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, October - November 2014
• Festival of Future Nows, at the invitation of Olafur Eliasson & Institute for Spatial Experiments, Berlin, October - November 2014
• ReFraming, film screening at ARTos Foundation, Nicosia, June 2014.
• ASHA, performance at The Bower House, Maidstone, October 2013
• ASHA, performance at Leyton Technical Pub, London, September 2013
• ASHA, performing at Limbo, Margate, September 2013
• ASHA, performance at The Louis Armstrong Pub, Dover, August 2013
• Transparency, exhibition as part of the Leytonstone Arts Trail 2013, with Clare Smith, at The Red Lion pub, London, July 2013
• ReFraming, film screening at the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, June 2013.
• ReFraming, film screening at Labia Cinema, Cape Town, May 2013
• Reframing, film screening at Crate Space, Margate, April 2013
• ReFraming, film screening as part of Cambridge University's Women's Day events, Cambridge, March 2013
• ReFraming, film screening at Club Shepway's B&B Project Space, Folkestone, January - February 2013.
• ReFraming, film screening at Maidstone Film Fest 2012, Maidstone, November 2012.
• ReFraming, film screening at 51:zero¡ã Voyager film, video and digital media arts festival, Maidstone, October 2012.
• I will wait for you, mixed media piece in the group exhibition TEXT at Gallery 23, Maidstone, September - October 2012.
• ReFraming film premiere, The Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club, part of DAD's War & Peace programme, Dover, September 2012.
• Medway Meandering, film screening at LV21 Festival, Gillingham, September 2011.
• Heart, Untitled 7 and Untitled 13, live art video installation shown at Battery Hens Group exhibition, The Rag Factory, London, June 2011.
• The Mill, shown at the BBC Big Screen, Dover, 2011

My first short film Breaking and Entering (2009) was a finalist in a competition run by TheCrane.tv and featured on their website in 2009. It was screened at the Culture Unplugged Film Festivals We Speak Here and Humanity Explored based in San Francisco, Auckland and Maharashtra in June and December 2010. It was also screened at the following film festivals:

• Cyprus International Film Festival, Nicosia, October 2010.
• Portobello Film Festival, London, September 2010
• Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala, February 2010
• Big Easy Shorts Festival, New Orleans, November 2009
• WildSound Film Festival, Toronto, October 2009
• Be Film: The Underground Film Festival, New York City, May 2009