Speakers
ALISON CLARKE
Surrey Hills Arts
Alison is Programme Manager at Surrey Hills Arts. She develops and leads projects that respond to this designated landscape, one of our national Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The adventurous programme of arts, events, installations and experiences is designed to connect people to the Surrey Hills landscape, its history, views and natural materials. www.surreyhillsarts.org
ASTRID KORPORAAL
Kingston University (Techne Student)
Astrid Korporaal is a curator, researcher and writer. Astrid is completing an AHRC-funded PhD at Kingston University, in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, researching experimental collaborative practices in contemporary moving image production and presentation. Previously, she was Curator of Education Partnerships at the ICA, Co-Founder and Director of Almanac Projects in London and Turin, and Assistant Curator of nomadic curatorial collective FormContent, among other roles. Currently, she works as a lecturer in the department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen. She has written articles for publications such as Art Monthly, Arte e Critica, Rekto Verso and Kaleidoscope.
www.astridkorporaal.com
CHARLOTTE WARNE THOMAS
Kingston University (Techne Student)
​Charlotte Warne Thomas is an artist, researcher and practice-based PhD student at Kingston University. Through art practice, her work seeks to investigate and articulate the links and relationships between labour, work and care, drawing on historical and personal narratives to disrupt and interrogate perceptions of value. She is passionate about making the art world more inclusive and accessible, and working to overcome its structural inequalities, issues that she recently explored during her Partnership Researcher placement at the think tank Autonomy.
EMMA BRODZINSKI
Academic and Therapist
Dr Emma Brodzinski is a mother of triplets and carer to two guinea pigs and a cat! She is also an academic and registered therapist who has developed a range of materials to support those on a doctoral journey – including the TECHNE ‘Breathing Space’ programme and The PhD Life Raft Podcast.
EVE GRUBIN
Techne Alumni
Eve Grubin is the author of Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press) and The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press). She is a PhD student at Kingston funded by Techne, finishing practice based research on ‘The Poetics of Reticence’. She is also a lecturer at NYU in London and a tutor at the Poetry School. www.evegrubin.com
FELIX CLUTSON
University of Surrey (Techne Student)
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JESSICA GAGNON
University of Manchester
Dr Jessica Gagnon (@Jess_Gagnon) is an educational sociologist, focused on inequalities in higher education. She has worked in higher education in the US and UK for more than 20 years. Jessica is a first-generation student from an American working-class, single mother family. She currently serves as co-chair for the Gender and Education Association, an international, intersectional feminist academic charity founded in 1997, focused on achieving gender equality within and through education. Jessica is a lecturer in the Manchester Institute of Education at the University of Manchester.
JON MASON
University of Brighton (Techne Student)
Jon Mason is a professional storyteller with a longstanding focus on the folklore and history of place, and the role of myth in humanity’s understanding of life. He has a BA Hons in History with Archaeology from the University of Wales, Bangor, and an MA in Contemporary History from the University of Sussex. He is currently undertaking a Techne-funded PhD at the University of Brighton entitled “Re-storying the city: applying urban perspectives to eco-storytelling.” He can be found at https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/jon-mason and https://jonthestoryteller.com/.
JUDAH ATTILLE
UAL (Techne Student)
Judah Attille (she/her) is a London UK based Independent Filmmaker|Educator, currently a Y3 PhD Candidate at UAL and a recipient of a TECHNE Scholarship for film practice-based research. Attille’s research methodologies aspire towards cinematic gestures with which to practice a Derridean provocation of ‘unconditional hospitality’.
Invitations III of the collaborative Invitations series, Judah Attille in Conversation with Taylor Melle (Technecast), was inspired by Dreaming Rivers Found Footage 2021 (DRFF2021), a project discussion began in 2019 and hosted by Notnowhere Artist Workers’ Cooperative. DRFF2021 participants discover how the material properties of film can change attitudes to conservation, archives, and participatory practice.
JULIEN CLIN
Kingston University (Techne Student)
Julien Clin is a first-year PhD student at Kingston University, where he works on the poetics of Home in contemporary London writing. He previously worked in broadcast journalism working as a producer and forgein correspondent. Alongside his doctoral research, Julien also engages with Place and Urbanism as part of the PlaceLabs Collective (www.placelabs.co.uk) and through his own creative writing. Julien co-organises the Technecast.
JULIETTA SINGH
University of Richmond
Julietta Singh is an essayist and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization, current ecological crisis, and queer-feminist futures. She is the author of The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021) No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018) and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018). She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her family.
KATE SCOTT
Kingston University
Kate is the School Director for Research, Business and Innovation at the Design School, Kingston School of Art. Her background is in language and linguistics, but her interests are broad and encompass visual communication in various written and non-verbal forms. Kate's publications include work on digitally-mediated communication (hashtags, emoji, memes and clickbait) and she is particularly interested in how context influences the production and interpretation of online communication.
KRISTIAN SHAW
University of Lincoln
Kristian Shaw is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln, specialising in contemporary British and American literature. He released his first AHRC-funded monograph with Palgrave in 2017 entitled Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction and his second, entitled BrexLit, a term he coined in 2016 to describe cultural responses to Brexit, with Bloomsbury in 2020. He has two edited collections on the work of Kazuo Ishiguro and Hari Kunzru (MUP 2021). He has recently contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to British Postmodern Fiction and The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction. He serves as a reader for the C21 Literature journal and sits on the executive committee of BACLS (British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies).
LAURA TOMPKINS
Historic Royal Palaces
Laura is the Research Manager at Historic Royal Palaces.
LEZLEY GEORGE
Kingston University
Lezley George currently is a lecturer in critical and historical studies for fashion at Kingston University and an associate lecturer for cultural and historical studies at London College of Fashion. Originally from a practice-based industry background, Lezley ran her own fashion label for twenty years before moving to the United Arab Emirates in 2008, where she spent eight years teaching at fashion design and cultural studies at universities. Lezley holds a Ph.D. from London College of Fashion (UAL), and her current research interests focus on decolonizing global fashion cultures, gendered space and activism, Middle Eastern/Gulf visual and material cultures.
LIZ WILKINSON
The Careers Group
Liz Wilkinson is the Techne Careers Consultant and Senior Careers Consultant at The Careers Group, with specialisms in postgraduate and academic careers and digital employability. Formerly Director of Careers and Employability at Royal Holloway for 15 years, Liz has 30 years’ experience in employability, recruitment and HE. She has worked in 8 universities including UCL, Goldsmiths and Queen Mary, and when Deputy Director of Careers at King’s College London, she set up the targeted careers support for PhD students. Liz has delivered consultancy to Cambridge University, EdHec Lille and BI Norway.
MARK AERIAL WALLER
Kingston University (Techne Student)
My practice-based research for PhD at Kingston aims to critically examine the concept and processes of metalepsis, a condition experienced by audiences through a particular encounter with the uncanny. My fine art practice explores relationships between cinema, sculpture and live performance, where the spectator, art object and its relative position in space and time become an interdisciplinary medium. I have exhibited extensively. In 2000 I founded an experimental research platform, The Wayward Canon, a site for radical exploration of cinematic practises. I am represented by Rodeo gallery and my video work is distributed through LUX. Find out more: www.markaerialwaller.com
NAOMI WALTHAM-SMITH
University of Warwick
Naomi Waltham-Smith is Reader in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. Working at the intersection of continental philosophy with music and sound studies, she is the author of Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford UP, 2017), Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Fordham UP, 2021), and Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear (Cambridge UP, forthcoming). She has been awarded fellowships at the Penn Price Lab for Digital Humanities, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg.
NICHOLAS FOXTON
Kingston University
Nicholas Foxton is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Kingston University and also works as an ecological surveyor.
POLLY HEMBER
Royal Holloway University (Techne Student)
Polly Hember is a third-year Techne funded PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her thesis explores the fictional works of the POOL group, looking at cinema, haptics and affect within modernist literature. She is a co-organiser of the Technecast, the research network Figuring out Feeling and Following the Affective Turn.
RACHEL GANNON
Kingston University
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ROSALIND HOLGATE-SMITH
Kingston University (Techne Student)
Rosalind Holgate-Smith is a Dancer, Artist and Educator. She creates performances, installations and visual artwork that investigates intimate experiences between people, place and the environment. She holds a Masters in Dance Creative practice, a BA (hons) in Fine Art and Choreography, and is currently a techne PhD scholarship student, based at Kingston University, where she is investigating touch as an encounter with Otherness. https://rosalindholgate-smith.com
SARA UPSTONE
Kingston University
Sara Upstone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University. Her publications include Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2017), British Asian Fiction: Twenty-first-century Voices (Manchester University Press, 2011) and Spatial Politics in the Postcolonial Novel (Ashgate, 2010). She is the co-editor of Postmodern Literature and Race (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Researching and Representing Mobilities: Transdisciplinary Encounters. (Palgrave, 2014), Postcolonial Spaces: the Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture (Palgrave, 2011) and the forthcoming (with Kristian Shaw) Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Hari Kunzru (Manchester University Press, 2022) and (with Peter Ely) Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit (Bloomsbury, 2022).
SIMON JOSEBURY
Kingston University (Techne Student)
Simon Josebury is a PhD candidate at the Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston University, London. He has recently completed a Techne-funded placement at the MayDay Rooms, London, an archive set up as a resource and store for the documentation of post '68 libertarian social movements and cultural groups, predominantly those involving employment and labour issues. This placement was made to broaden a PhD project which – operating under the general framework of an exploration of the social effects of aesthetic categories– sets out to examine how the concept of disinterest conditions the act of looking and the production of meaning. Carried out through a practice-based methodology, it tests the development of the aesthetic formulation by means of its material operations. As such, forms of edit and assemblage in the moving image have been explored, and these methods have also been applied to print based formats.
SUMMER PHILLIPS
Kingston University (Techne Student)
My work is a symbiosis of art and science, utilising a multi-disciplinary approach to ask key environmental questions arising from human perceptions and subsequent behaviours. My current writing is a series of short, interlinked science fiction stories based on perceptions and creations of world: exploring the topics of speciesism, altered ecologies and parallel universe theory. I am interested in how our perception of non human beings affects how our world could be re-built, to either thrive or decay. Story collection in progress: “Millimetre” – Interlinked speculative fiction tales based on perceptions & creations of world: exploring the topics of speciesism, altered ecologies & multiverse theory.
Websites in progress:
THERESE HENNINGSEN
Royal Holloway (Techne Student)
Therese Henningsen is a filmmaker and programmer based in London. Her filmmaking often takes shape through the encounter with the person(s) filmed and the direction this may take. She is a member of the two film collectives Sharna Pax and Terrassen, both engaging with the social life of film. She collaborates on ongoing film and research projects with artists and filmmakers Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Juliette Joffé. She is currently working on a practice-led PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway University, and teaches on the MA Documentary and Ethnographic Film at UCL.
TOM COWARD
Kingston University
Tom is an Architect and director at AOC, and leads a range of public, community and heritage projects with particular expertise in broad stakeholder engagement. He studied at University of Nottingham and the Royal College of Art. He has lectured and taught internationally and in 2011 was the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale University. He is currently Year leader of the M.Arch course at Kingston University, where he is also undertaking a PhD by practice. Tom sits on the GLA Architecture & Urbanism Panel, he is an RIBA Client Advisor and a member of the Southwark, Croydon and Harrow Design Review Panels.