SATURDAY, 20st JANUARY 2024

Declan Keeney

Professor of Screen Technologies & Innovation

Declan Keeney is professor of Screen Technologies & Innovation at Ulster University and director of the Ulster Screen Academy. Declan is also co-founder & CEO of Studio Ulster, a £72m commercial virtual production studio complex that includes a dedicated UKRI funded research facility known as the CoSTAR Screen Lab. It is located at Belfast Harbour Studios. He has worked in the screen industry for over twenty-five years including thirteen years at the BBC. Declan is a board member of the British Film Institute (Northern Ireland Governor), a fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the British Council’s Arts & Creative Economy Advisory Group.