Conferences and Festivals
44th International NAFA Film Festival, North Macedonia, 2025
Activists Without Borders Film Festival & Awards, UK, 2025
Sound + Environment Symposium, Newcastle, UK, 2025
Filmgalerie Phase IV, Dresden, 2025
Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France, 2023
Laurus Film Festival, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Belarus. 2021 (Semi - Finalist)
Etnovideográfica Film Festival, Zamora, Spain, 2020 (Nominated Jury Prize)
Winner Wales International Film Festival, Swansea, Wales, 2019 (Best Experimental)
Skeiðaráhlaup Festival, Iceland, 2019
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, 2019
Winner Reel HeArt Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2019 (Best Experimental and Nominated for Best Editing)
AnthropOcean, Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Lisboa, Portugal, 2019
Finalist, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales, 2019 (Nominated Best Short)
Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France, 2019
Mountain - Nature - Adventure Film Festival - 29 Memorial Marià Luisa, Spain, 2019
Wales International Documentary Film Festival, Cardiff, Wales, 2019
Short to the Point Film festival, Romania, Moldova, 2019
Honourable Mention, Canada Shorts Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2019
Sound Though Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 11/2018
The Rivers of Life, the Sill, Cumbria, England, 11/2018
GeNErosity Festival, North Tyneside, England, 10/2018
ASA18 Conference: Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology with Dr Adam Doering and Dr Clifton Evers, Oxford, England, 09/2018
Adlais, Gwyl Lechi Bro Ffestiniog/ Ffestiniog Slate Festival, Wales, 07/ 2018
CAUTHE 2018, collaboration with Dr Adam Doering, Dr Clifton Evers, Prof. Kumi Kato, Simon Wearne, Australia, 02/2018
The Dark Outside Festival and Sanctuary Lab, Talnotry, 09/2017
Sustaining the Seas 2017, collaboration with Dr Clifton Evers, Sydney, Australia, 06/2017
Sydney Ideas Festival 2017, Polluted Leisure, collaboration with Dr Clifton Evers, Sydney, Australia, 06/2017
Residencies, Grants and Commissions
DYCP, Arts Council England, 2022
Grounding the Cloud, Pioneer Award, 2021
Polluted Leisure, NICAP Award, 2018
CAMP Residency, Aulus-les-Bains, France, 05/2018
Paths Across the Water, North Shields, 11/2017
Bridges___, NUHRI Award, 2016
Common Ground, AHRC Award, 2016
Sundroids, Harehope Quarry, Weardale, 2012
The Emblematic Project, Arts Council England Award, 09/2011
Switch On/ Switch Off, FutureEverything Festival, Manchester, 05/2011
Oxclose, Creative Partnerships Residency, 08/2010
Wield Site Allotments Residency, Brighton, 06/2010
Selected Performances and Exhibitions
Terraforming Otherwise, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK, 07/2025
Sound + Environment Immersive Sound Concert, Newcastle, UK, 2025
Deep Dream, Dark Web Special. Ears Have Eyes. Canada. CJSW FM Radio and Online. 01/2024
Zephyros, Cullercoats Harbour, UK, 08/2022
Upstream, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle, 03/2022
un-boxing, Sainte Croix de Mareille, France, 03/2022
Carbon Borders Voices, Online Exhibition, 01/2022
Energies, Hedway Arts, Blyth, 07/2021
Bartlett Screening Room, UCL, London, 04/2021
Spaces of Intervention, Culture Lab, Newcastle, 10/2019
Put This in Your Window and Think of Me, Cambridge, 09/2019
Bound iii, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland, 05/2019
You Cannot Step in the Same River Twice, Fuse, Bradford, 05/2019
Bound ii, Allenheads Contemporary Art, England, 03/2019
Sounding Nature, Selected Contributor to Cities and Memory Project, Online Archive, 2018
Material Matter, Culture Lab, Newcastle 12/2018
Bound i, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 11/2018
Polluted Leisure: A Toxic Love Affair, Foundation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris, France 11/2018
Trace, Radio Series, ResonanceExtra, 2018
Polluted Leisure: A Toxic Love Affair, XL Gallery, 09/2018
Bridges ii____, Inspired by Great Exhibition of the North, Long Gallery, Newcastle, 08/2018
Chwarel, Soundwalks, collaboration with Tim Shaw Dorothea Quarry, Gwynedd, Wales, 10/2017
Murmur, collaboration with Prof. Julieanne Preston, Newcastle, 07/2017
Bridges___, collaboration with David de la Haye, North Tower: Tyne Bridge, Newcastle, 11/2016
AHRC Commons, Common Ground, York, 06/2016
Seasons, Field Camera, Cumbria, 06/2016
Loops, Lines, Layers, Culture Lab, 03/2016
Things Not Seen Archive, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle, 11/2015
Chwarel, Dyffryn Nantlle, Gwynedd, Wales, 2015
Cloud 9, Kirkley Hall, Northumberland, 08/2014
Change, South Shields, 04/2013
Render3, Culture Lab, Newcastle, 09/2012
The Emblematic Project, Newcastle, 10/2011
Onsite, Newcastle, 07/2011
Land-escape, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 04/2011
Wield Site Allotments, Brighton, 06/2010
Central Art, Queenstown New Zealand, 08/2009
Echoes, N.Ireland, 06/2009
Bonfires, the Eakin, N.Ireland, 09/2008
Open Houses, Brighton, 07/2007
Helios, the Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, 08/2006
Misé-en-scene, Gallery North, Newcastle, 06/2006
Grants/Commissions
(2025) Ghost Mines Research Studio. Dresden, Germany. £3500
(2025, submitted) PI. Space Island. Sundance Sandbox Fund. $50,000/ £39,600
(2025, submitted) Pi. Wind. BFI Doc Society Fund. £30,000
(2023) Action Research Group Member. Building Enhanced Leadership Capacity to enable
Psychologically Safe and Inclusive Research Environments.. Wellcome Trust. £1million.
(2022) PI. Beneath. DYCP Award Arts Council England. Supporting the production of a new
body of work exploring the hidden relics of industry. To be exhibited and performed at
Woodhorn Museum 2024. £8,900.
(2021) PI. Grounding the Cloud. Pioneer Fund, Newcastle University. Exploring the energy and
infrastructure required to support our virtual lives. £900.
(2021) PI. Student Take Over. Bartlett Fund. Curation and commission of student works cited in
the Cullercoats Underpass exploring the themes of leisure and pollution. £2,700.
(2019) Co-I. Polluted Leisure. Faculty Impact Fund, Newcastle University. £5,000.
(2017) Co-I. Polluted Leisure Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice Grant. Pollution,
masculinity, and blue spaces. £5,000.
(2018) PI. Bridges ii. Commission investigating place and acoustic resonance of bridges
spanning the River Tyne. Great Exhibition of the North, England. £2,500.
(2017) Change. Commission into Island Typologies. Exhibited Paths Across the Water and Being
Human Festival. £1,500
(2016) Commission AHRC.Common Ground Event. £1,500.
(2016) Bridges. Commission. Being Human Festival. NUHRI Award. £1,000
(2011) PI. The Emblematic Project. Arts Council England Grant.Public Art project exploring data
visualisations to depict global Newcastle residents mood. £3,500.
Conference Proceedings
Davoll J. Ghost Mines, Around the Fire Symposium. Performance and Paper. Queen's University Belfast. Norther Ireland 2025
Davoll J. Making Zephros. Sound + Environment Symposium. Performance and Paper. Kings Hall. England 2025.
Davoll J. HEA fellowship: is it for me? Ulster Teaching & Learning Conference. Belfast, UK.2024.
Davoll J. Changing borders: Identity, citizenship, and belonging in twenty-first century Ireland. Panel member and Paper. Ulster University. Northern Ireland. 2024.
Davoll J. The Mine as Memory. Spotlight on Academics Film. Talk. Ontario. Canada. 2024.
Davoll J. Defining Technician Led Teaching. Institute of Science and Technology Conference. Paper & Workshop. London. England. 2023.
Davoll J. Fellowship. HEaTED Creative Practitioners Network. Workshop. Salford. England. 2023.
Davoll J. Aligning activities to HEA Framework. Technical Partnership Conference. Paper & Workshop. Newcastle. England. 2022.
Davoll J. Extraction. Bartlett Screening Room. Screening and Q&A. UCL. London. England. 2021.
Davoll J. Extracting from Site. EAS Symposium. Workshop. Newcastle. England. 2021.
Davoll J. Bound: an exploration of the Irish Border. Sound Thought Festival. Talk and Performance. Glasgow. Scotland. 2018.
Evers, C, Davoll, J. GeNErosity Festival. Talk and Showcase. North Tyneside. England. 2018.
Evers, C, Davoll, J. The Rivers of Life. Talk and Showcase. The Sill. Cumbria. England. 2018.
Doering, A, Evers, C, Davoll, J. ASA18. Conference Paper. Oxford. England. 2018.
44th International NAFA Film Festival, North Macedonia, 2025
Activists Without Borders Film Festival & Awards, UK, 2025
Sound + Environment Symposium, Newcastle, UK, 2025
Filmgalerie Phase IV, Dresden, 2025
Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France, 2023
Laurus Film Festival, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Belarus. 2021 (Semi - Finalist)
Etnovideográfica Film Festival, Zamora, Spain, 2020 (Nominated Jury Prize)
Winner Wales International Film Festival, Swansea, Wales, 2019 (Best Experimental)
Skeiðaráhlaup Festival, Iceland, 2019
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, 2019
Winner Reel HeArt Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2019 (Best Experimental and Nominated for Best Editing)
AnthropOcean, Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Lisboa, Portugal, 2019
Finalist, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales, 2019 (Nominated Best Short)
Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France, 2019
Mountain - Nature - Adventure Film Festival - 29 Memorial Marià Luisa, Spain, 2019
Wales International Documentary Film Festival, Cardiff, Wales, 2019
Short to the Point Film festival, Romania, Moldova, 2019
Honourable Mention, Canada Shorts Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2019
Sound Though Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 11/2018
The Rivers of Life, the Sill, Cumbria, England, 11/2018
GeNErosity Festival, North Tyneside, England, 10/2018
ASA18 Conference: Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology with Dr Adam Doering and Dr Clifton Evers, Oxford, England, 09/2018
Adlais, Gwyl Lechi Bro Ffestiniog/ Ffestiniog Slate Festival, Wales, 07/ 2018
CAUTHE 2018, collaboration with Dr Adam Doering, Dr Clifton Evers, Prof. Kumi Kato, Simon Wearne, Australia, 02/2018
The Dark Outside Festival and Sanctuary Lab, Talnotry, 09/2017
Sustaining the Seas 2017, collaboration with Dr Clifton Evers, Sydney, Australia, 06/2017
Sydney Ideas Festival 2017, Polluted Leisure, collaboration with Dr Clifton Evers, Sydney, Australia, 06/2017
Residencies, Grants and Commissions
DYCP, Arts Council England, 2022
Grounding the Cloud, Pioneer Award, 2021
Polluted Leisure, NICAP Award, 2018
CAMP Residency, Aulus-les-Bains, France, 05/2018
Paths Across the Water, North Shields, 11/2017
Bridges___, NUHRI Award, 2016
Common Ground, AHRC Award, 2016
Sundroids, Harehope Quarry, Weardale, 2012
The Emblematic Project, Arts Council England Award, 09/2011
Switch On/ Switch Off, FutureEverything Festival, Manchester, 05/2011
Oxclose, Creative Partnerships Residency, 08/2010
Wield Site Allotments Residency, Brighton, 06/2010
Selected Performances and Exhibitions
Terraforming Otherwise, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK, 07/2025
Sound + Environment Immersive Sound Concert, Newcastle, UK, 2025
Deep Dream, Dark Web Special. Ears Have Eyes. Canada. CJSW FM Radio and Online. 01/2024
Zephyros, Cullercoats Harbour, UK, 08/2022
Upstream, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle, 03/2022
un-boxing, Sainte Croix de Mareille, France, 03/2022
Carbon Borders Voices, Online Exhibition, 01/2022
Energies, Hedway Arts, Blyth, 07/2021
Bartlett Screening Room, UCL, London, 04/2021
Spaces of Intervention, Culture Lab, Newcastle, 10/2019
Put This in Your Window and Think of Me, Cambridge, 09/2019
Bound iii, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland, 05/2019
You Cannot Step in the Same River Twice, Fuse, Bradford, 05/2019
Bound ii, Allenheads Contemporary Art, England, 03/2019
Sounding Nature, Selected Contributor to Cities and Memory Project, Online Archive, 2018
Material Matter, Culture Lab, Newcastle 12/2018
Bound i, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 11/2018
Polluted Leisure: A Toxic Love Affair, Foundation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris, France 11/2018
Trace, Radio Series, ResonanceExtra, 2018
Polluted Leisure: A Toxic Love Affair, XL Gallery, 09/2018
Bridges ii____, Inspired by Great Exhibition of the North, Long Gallery, Newcastle, 08/2018
Chwarel, Soundwalks, collaboration with Tim Shaw Dorothea Quarry, Gwynedd, Wales, 10/2017
Murmur, collaboration with Prof. Julieanne Preston, Newcastle, 07/2017
Bridges___, collaboration with David de la Haye, North Tower: Tyne Bridge, Newcastle, 11/2016
AHRC Commons, Common Ground, York, 06/2016
Seasons, Field Camera, Cumbria, 06/2016
Loops, Lines, Layers, Culture Lab, 03/2016
Things Not Seen Archive, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle, 11/2015
Chwarel, Dyffryn Nantlle, Gwynedd, Wales, 2015
Cloud 9, Kirkley Hall, Northumberland, 08/2014
Change, South Shields, 04/2013
Render3, Culture Lab, Newcastle, 09/2012
The Emblematic Project, Newcastle, 10/2011
Onsite, Newcastle, 07/2011
Land-escape, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 04/2011
Wield Site Allotments, Brighton, 06/2010
Central Art, Queenstown New Zealand, 08/2009
Echoes, N.Ireland, 06/2009
Bonfires, the Eakin, N.Ireland, 09/2008
Open Houses, Brighton, 07/2007
Helios, the Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, 08/2006
Misé-en-scene, Gallery North, Newcastle, 06/2006
Grants/Commissions
(2025) Ghost Mines Research Studio. Dresden, Germany. £3500
(2025, submitted) PI. Space Island. Sundance Sandbox Fund. $50,000/ £39,600
(2025, submitted) Pi. Wind. BFI Doc Society Fund. £30,000
(2023) Action Research Group Member. Building Enhanced Leadership Capacity to enable
Psychologically Safe and Inclusive Research Environments.. Wellcome Trust. £1million.
(2022) PI. Beneath. DYCP Award Arts Council England. Supporting the production of a new
body of work exploring the hidden relics of industry. To be exhibited and performed at
Woodhorn Museum 2024. £8,900.
(2021) PI. Grounding the Cloud. Pioneer Fund, Newcastle University. Exploring the energy and
infrastructure required to support our virtual lives. £900.
(2021) PI. Student Take Over. Bartlett Fund. Curation and commission of student works cited in
the Cullercoats Underpass exploring the themes of leisure and pollution. £2,700.
(2019) Co-I. Polluted Leisure. Faculty Impact Fund, Newcastle University. £5,000.
(2017) Co-I. Polluted Leisure Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice Grant. Pollution,
masculinity, and blue spaces. £5,000.
(2018) PI. Bridges ii. Commission investigating place and acoustic resonance of bridges
spanning the River Tyne. Great Exhibition of the North, England. £2,500.
(2017) Change. Commission into Island Typologies. Exhibited Paths Across the Water and Being
Human Festival. £1,500
(2016) Commission AHRC.Common Ground Event. £1,500.
(2016) Bridges. Commission. Being Human Festival. NUHRI Award. £1,000
(2011) PI. The Emblematic Project. Arts Council England Grant.Public Art project exploring data
visualisations to depict global Newcastle residents mood. £3,500.
Conference Proceedings
Davoll J. Ghost Mines, Around the Fire Symposium. Performance and Paper. Queen's University Belfast. Norther Ireland 2025
Davoll J. Making Zephros. Sound + Environment Symposium. Performance and Paper. Kings Hall. England 2025.
Davoll J. HEA fellowship: is it for me? Ulster Teaching & Learning Conference. Belfast, UK.2024.
Davoll J. Changing borders: Identity, citizenship, and belonging in twenty-first century Ireland. Panel member and Paper. Ulster University. Northern Ireland. 2024.
Davoll J. The Mine as Memory. Spotlight on Academics Film. Talk. Ontario. Canada. 2024.
Davoll J. Defining Technician Led Teaching. Institute of Science and Technology Conference. Paper & Workshop. London. England. 2023.
Davoll J. Fellowship. HEaTED Creative Practitioners Network. Workshop. Salford. England. 2023.
Davoll J. Aligning activities to HEA Framework. Technical Partnership Conference. Paper & Workshop. Newcastle. England. 2022.
Davoll J. Extraction. Bartlett Screening Room. Screening and Q&A. UCL. London. England. 2021.
Davoll J. Extracting from Site. EAS Symposium. Workshop. Newcastle. England. 2021.
Davoll J. Bound: an exploration of the Irish Border. Sound Thought Festival. Talk and Performance. Glasgow. Scotland. 2018.
Evers, C, Davoll, J. GeNErosity Festival. Talk and Showcase. North Tyneside. England. 2018.
Evers, C, Davoll, J. The Rivers of Life. Talk and Showcase. The Sill. Cumbria. England. 2018.
Doering, A, Evers, C, Davoll, J. ASA18. Conference Paper. Oxford. England. 2018.