Overview
Xue Han is Senior Lecturer at AUB. She graduated from Bournemouth University (BU), MA 3D course in the Faculty of Media and Communication, with distinction (2017). She is also a PhD candidate at BU. Her research interest is practice-based, interdisciplinary research with animation, psychosocial study and gender study.
Xue previously worked in the game and animation industry as a designer, animation artist and art director since 2006. The earliest project she participated in is EVE online (2006), the latest featured animated film she worked in is Wish Dragon (2021), and the exhibition project in Salisbury Cathedral (permanent show in the Cathedral), which was nominated in the Royal Television Society Southern Awards (2021). Her animated documentary film Hunger by The Sea (2017) won and be nominated in multiple awards, including the Royal Television Society (2018) and The AHRC Research in Film Awards (2017). This film was screened at the Ethnografilm Festival (2022) in Paris.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MA 3D Computer Animation (Bournemouth University)
Teaching
Professional Engagement
- Screening at Women's Health Community Engagement Public and Patient Involvement Session, 2024
- Speaker at Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice Seminar, 2022
- Speaker at The British Audio-Visual Research Network’s Virtual Colloquia, 13 May 2021, Online
- Speaker at Chinese Audio-Visual Cultures Postgraduate Symposium, 07 May 2021, Online
- Illustrator, RedBalloon/ Jurassic Coast Trust, 2021
- Research Assistant/ Illustrator/ Animator, Faculty on Health & Social Sciences, 2021
- Research Illustrator, AHRC funded DICE Developing Inclusive and Creative Economies project, 2021
- Research Assistant, CESJ Research Centre and research seminar Britain on the Couch, 2021
- Animator, Kids Camera Action Productions, 2020
- Animator, The Red Balloon Productions/ Salisbury Cathedral, 2020
- Student Research Assitant/ Animator, Student Research Assitant Scheme, 2017
- Publication, Han, X., McDougall, J., Mott, C. and Sudbury, S., 2018. Hunger by the Sea: Partnerships in The Brave Third Space. International Journal for Students as Partners.
Awards and Prizes
Notable awards/prizes
- Nomination RTS Southern Awards Graphics/ Animation (Royal Television Society, 2021)
- Nomination RTS Southern Awards Short Form Content (Royal Television Society, 2021)
- Selection of screening (The Ethnografilm Festival of Paris, 2020)
- Nomination in Territory Focus MIFA China (Festival International Animation Annecy, 2018)
- Nomination RTS Best Non-Broadcast Award (Royal Television Society, 2018)
- Official Selection (discover.film, 2018)
- Winner Award of Merit (Best Shorts Competition, 2018)
- Nomination for Innovation Award (The AHRC Research in Film Awards, 2017)
- Official Selection LIDF (London International Documentary Festival, 2017)
- Team Video Excellence Prize (CG Society, 2013)