Larissa Sexton-Finck

Dr Larissa Sexton-Finck is an award winning short filmmaker and scholartist - screenwriter/director, digital storyteller, autoethnographer, virtual reality content writer and lecturer - in Media and Communication Studies.

Larissa is also the Deputy Head of School (Education) for the School of Social Sciences.

Larissa's teaching spans across almost two decades in the areas of Creative Writing, Filmmaking, Digital Media and Creative Production at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She has supervised numerous Honours and Masters students and is also an experienced examiner.

Larissa strongly believes that mainstream stories and representations act as mediating principles in western culture’s visioning of human agency and the Self and (re)organise the identity politics and power structures of society. For this reason, her current research interests include narrative reframing, creative analytical practice (CAP) ethnography and VR storytelling for behavioural change.