Dr Elaine Webster is Programme Leader for the PgCert/PgDip/LLM in Human Rights Law and Senior Academic Mentor for the Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training in Human Rights-based Decision Making. Her research focuses on European and international human rights law, particularly how judicial and non-judicial actors interpret rights at various levels, including locally. She previously served […]
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 […]
Zahra Khosroshahi is a researcher Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, researching everyday activism and resistance in Iran’s contemporary cinema. At the moment, she is working on a forthcoming book “Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance” (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Zahra is also the co-founder of Thousand&One; a global feminist community that supports women […]
Abi Jenkins is a writer and lecturer in film and television at the University of Glasgow. Their research is primarily focused on studies of fatness/plus size bodies and queerness in contemporary fiction and reality television. They conduct intersectional feminist analysis and often utilise autoethnographic methodologies, bringing their own experiences to their scholarship. Abi has been […]
Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni is an Associate Professor of Film Animation at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where she is the proud recipient of a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award. Her previous animated documentary films (John and Michael, Tying Your Own Shoes, Petra’s Poem), in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada, garnered over […]
Dr. Sita Balani is the author of Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race (Verso, 2023) and co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto, 2021). She has published in Vice, Tribune, the White Review, Salvage, Public Books, Radical Philosophy, Five Dials, and Protean. She is working on a new […]
Michael Kho Lim’s career trajectory lies at the intersection of industry and academia. He has extensive experience in the management of cultural and creative industries — assuming various leadership roles such as being a film producer, executive director, general manager, and holding creative and managerial positions in content writing and editing for different publications. He […]
Grace Wright is currently a SGSAH-funded PhD student at the University of Glasgow. She explores women’s participation in nineteenth-century land agitation in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Her research work, which grew out of participation in ATLAS Art’s School of Plural Futures programme and volunteer work at the Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre, aims […]
Dr Liam Bell is a fiction writer and academic, currently making the transition from a post at University of Stirling to a new position at the University of Strathclyde. During his week at Cove Park he’ll be continuing work on a non-fiction book on rejection in the creative arts (forthcoming from Icon Books in 2027) […]
Ruth Francesca Mogan is a visual arts teacher based in Singapore, specialising in guiding students aged 4 to 17 through a wide range of fine art mediums. With a diverse foundation in painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, and more, she draws on both her formal training in Art Teaching at the Nanyang Academy of Fine […]
Peder Clark is a historian of drugs and health in modern Britain, currently employed at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is currently writing a new cultural and social history of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA or 3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine), provisionally entitled Pills: Ecstasy in Britain in the Nineties. His research is supported by the Wellcome trust.
Sarah Ward is a fiction writer and an education academic who uses creative methods in research. She has published short stories in New Writing Scotland 38 (2020), the middle of a sentence (2020) and Words about Whiteinch (2010). She won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow in 2017 and was […]