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.






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