Biography
Izabela Derda, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Media & Creative Industries at the Media & Communication Department.
She has a strong background in media practice, holding an M.A. in Film and TV Producing from Polish National Filmschool in Lodz and a certificate in Business and Management of Entertainment from UCLA, Los Angeles.
Izabela's research focuses on innovation in creative industries, specifically on how emerging technologies shape co-creative practices and their dynamics. Exploring media as a practice, she investigates not only changes in media production and audience engagement but also studies them as a network that integrates humans and technologies.
She co-leads the ERMeCHS research cluster, Value in Creative Economy (ViCE), and is a member of SSH-Breed Sectorplan themes on the Digitalization and platformization of work processes and products and Digitalisation, new ways of working, and the new employee.
Izabela is also a multi-award-winning media producer, advertising expert, and speaker. She has participated in numerous panels and served as a jury member at major advertising festivals worldwide, including Cannes Lions, Cristal Festival, Eurobest, and Clios Awards, among others.
Additionally, she serves on the advisory board of the SXSW Pitch start-up competition.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
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Work
- Izabela Derda & Domnica Predescu (2025) - - Museum Management and Curatorship - doi: -
- Izabela Derda (2023) - - doi: -
- Izabela Derda (2023) - - Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 30 (5), 1596-1609 - doi: -
- Izabela Derda (2023) - - doi: -
- Izabela Derda (2023) - - Creative Industries Journal, 16 (3), 265-280 - doi: -
- Izabela Derda, Pedro Russo, Ezgi Arifoghlou, Micky Wouters, Tim Smit, Paul Hartwig, Wim Verveen, Patrick van Rietschoten & Simon Csoma (2022) -
- Izabela Derda (2022) - -
- Izabela Derda, Tom Feustel & Zoi Popoli (2021) - - The International Journal of Creative Media Research, (7) -
- IM (Izabela) Derda, Pedro Russo, Zoi Popoli & Tom Feustel (2021) - -
- Zoi Popoli & Izabela Derda (2021) - - Museum Management and Curatorship, 36 (4), 384-402 - doi: -
- Izabela Derda (2023) - Sensory Experience as Interaction Data in Exhibition Spaces (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Izabela Derda (2022) - Reconsidering interactions in a physical museum visitor journey (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Professional - IM (Izabela) Derda (2021) - Hogeschool Leiden (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - IM (Izabela) Derda (2021) - Co-creating experience (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - IM (Izabela) Derda (2021) - Co-creating experience (Participant)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - IM (Izabela) Derda (2021) - Hogeschool Leiden (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Izabela Kurczewska (2019) - Spreadability, circulation and distribution (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Izabela Kurczewska (2015) - Putting distribution at the heart of branded content startegy (panel) (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional - Izabela Kurczewska & J Feldman (2014) - Fans Passions Brands - Football Fans' Logics of Engagement (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
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- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5050
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
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- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4304
- Year Level
- MA, MA
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- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4307
- Level
- BA-2
- Year Level
- BA-2
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- 2024
- Course Code
- CM2011
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
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- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5000
