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Kunal Sharad

Writer, Music Producer, Researcher, and Digital Comms SpecialistLondon, United Kingdom
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Kunal Sharad
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Kunal Sharad

Writer, Music Producer, Researcher, and Digital Comms SpecialistLondon, United Kingdom
Professions
  • Writer
  • Content Producer
  • Artist
LevelMid Level
AvailabilityFreelance, Full-time
About me
A creative, versatile writer, producer, researcher, and digital comms/content specialist who works in both the arts and non-profit sectors. As a qualitative researcher with an artistic outlook, I apply multidisciplinary solutions and creative problem-solving across my work. I'm a highly confident and adaptable as a communicator with over 6-years campaigning and digital comms experience, for organisations including SumOfUs, 38 Degrees, and Greenpeace. My portfolio as a writer and essayist includes publications with Zero Books and Repeater Books, and I have an extensive body of work as a music producer and composer with labels such as Ninja Tune and Matador Records.
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Projects
  • European Changemakers // Movement Hub (2020, Comms and Content)
    European Changemakers // Movement Hub (2020, Comms and Content)I worked as a communications and content specialist on the European Changemakers (now Movement Hub) project over 2020. The project aims to connect different grassroots climate justice groups, movements, and activists to one-another with the aim of amplifying their voices and creating solidarity across the continent and beyond.
  • SAFE, by Melanie Courtinat (2021, Producer and Composer)
    SAFE, by Melanie Courtinat (2021, Producer and Composer)I wrote the music for digital artist Melanie Courtinat's new installation SAFE, an audio-visual installation that creates realtime renderings of its audience, showing at the Galerie Charlot in Paris.
  • Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production (2019, Writer)
    Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production (2019, Writer)I feature under a pseudonym in this forthcoming collection focusing on memes and digital culture on Punctum Books.
  • Regeneration Songs: Sounds Of Investment And Loss From East London (2018, Writer)
    Regeneration Songs: Sounds Of Investment And Loss From East London (2018, Writer)A piece of essayistic-fiction on cities, images, and the future development of London. For a collection on Repeater Books.
  • Politactics (2016, Writer)
    Politactics (2016, Writer)I wrote an essay on Jeremy Corbyn and the future of the let in Britain for this collection with the Everyday Analysis (EDA) collective on Zero Books.
  • Kush Tuition Centre, Leicester (2019, Copywriter and Web Developer)
    Kush Tuition Centre, Leicester (2019, Copywriter and Web Developer)I designed, built, and wrote the copy for Kush Tuition Centre's new website.
Work history
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    Communications and ContentGreenpeace International
    London, United KingdomPart Time
    I worked as a communications and content freelancer for the European Changemakers project, a Greenpeace Nordic initiative to help connect grassroots, climate-justice groups and networks across the continent.
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    Freelance Campaigner and CommsSumOfUs
     - London, United KingdomFull Time
    I worked as a campaigner and digital comms specialist for international workers' rights and civil liberties organisation SumOfUs.
Skills
  • Copywriting
  • Digital Campaigns
  • Music Production
  • Writing
  • Social Media
  • Content Creation
  • Audio Production
  • Music Composition
  • Photoshop
  • French
Education
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    MA in Media and CommunicationsThe University of Leicester
     - Leicester, United Kingdom
    My master's focused on online culture and social justice. I wrote my thesis on data as a non-impartial mediator of digital relations, achieving a distinction grade in my degree.
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    BMusGoldsmiths, University of London
     - London, United Kingdom
    My bachelor's degree took a broad perspective on contemporary and historical music practice and theory. My final dissertation was on electronic composition and its techno-social history.