Lucy Howie is a SGSAH-funded PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests focus on late 20th century British photography, film and video through a queer feminist and crip lens. Her current work investigates where queer and feminist photographers in the 1980s and 1990s in Britain used the camera as a therapeutic and community-based activist tool, and as a site for political dialogue on the limits of photographic representation at the intersection of disability, gender, sexuality and race during this period.

In 2024 Lucy was the Singer Doctoral Fellow at the Image Centre in Toronto. She has previously worked on the curatorial team at Kettle’s Yard and the Women’s Art Collection in Cambridge, and has curated public events and film screenings at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Central Library, Edinburgh College of Art and the University of St Andrews on projects spanning feminist collections, community art and aesthetics, and HIV/AIDS and disability.