Rate My Professor Lucy Baxter

Lucy Baxter serves as Lecturer in Film Practice within the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's University Belfast, where she is also affiliated with the Centre for Technological Innovation, Mental Health and Education (TIME). She brings extensive experience in television, film, digital, and immersive content production, having run a production company and worked as a producer and director on documentaries, dramas, independent films, and digital content for TV/digital broadcast and theatrical release. Baxter co-founded and headed the industry for Docs Ireland, a new all-Ireland international film festival in collaboration with the Belfast Film Festival, establishing Ireland's first documentary-focused international marketplace. In 2022, she founded Sensalience, a Createch company in the Qubis portfolio.

Her research interests include creative enterprise, Irish cross-border collaboration, and the applications of digital content, XR, and virtual reality film in health, social care, justice, and education, with a focus on emotional trauma and relationship and sex education. Prominent outputs are the Mental Abuse Matters Virtual Reality Project and The Afters, an immersive VR drama for consent education. Key publications comprise 'The Mental Abuse Matters Virtual Reality Project: creative practice in cinematic VR and immersive sound' (Media Practice and Education, 2025), 'The afters: creative practice in live action VR for relationship and sex education' (2026), 'The Afters: VR Consent Drama for RSE, a Case Study' (2025 conference paper), and 'The Afters (Jenna's Story and Charlie's Story)' (2025 digital product). She has received the Best Micro Short award (2024), Most Innovative Startup Award (2023), and RTS NI Student Awards for Best Drama (2024, 2022) and Best Comedy Drama (2024). Baxter contributes through invited talks, festival participations, workshops, and roles such as Board Member of the Belfast Media Festival Committee (2025-2027), with her work featured in extensive media coverage on VR for trauma therapy and empathy training.