ABOUT

Mark Jacobs

Innovation Executive, BBC Natural History Unit

Qualified originally as an Environmental Scientist and with a claim to fame as a researcher on some of the last Animal Magic programmes, Mark has made a career as a wildlife film maker and innovator.  He has produced many award winning films for BBC series, ranging from Wildlife On One and Supersense to landmark series in Central America and Polynesia and environmental investigations for Nature. Ten years ago, Mark pioneered some of the first applications of 3D animation for both the BBC and Discovery and in 2000 he joined the BBC's R&D arm (then called BBC Imagineering) to help pioneer new ways of using multimedia content.

Mark pioneered the introduction into the BBC of Augmented Reality based technology from Japan and USA and helped advise on the development of the Creative Archive and Earth Portal. He was Executive Producer of the BAFTA and RTS award winning Coast interactive mobile project, and has just completed a commissioning attachment for the BBC and Open University partnership assisting them with the development of their cross platform broadcast strategy. He is also the BBC representative on the Bristol Natural History Consortium responsible for the annual international "Communicate" conference on best practice in environmental communication and Bristol Festival of Nature. He is currently producing an interactive film on Evolution for the Natural History Museum in London.

Links:

http://www.nestafuturelab.org/showcase/savannah/savannah.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2004/09/29/bmn_feature.shtml
http://www.nestafuturelab.org/showcase/education_ar/education_ar.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/mobile/
http://www.festivalofnature.org/

Email: mark.jacobs@bbc.co.uk

 

Arts & Humanities Research Council: Each year the AHRC provides approximately £100 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,000 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. Arts and humanities researchers constitute nearly a quarter of all research-active staff in the higher education sector. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK. See Arts & Humanities Research Council website.