Senior Lecturer in Visual Communications
Dr Sara Andersdotter is an academic, artist, researcher and PhD supervisor, teaching as a Senior Lecturer on the Visual Communication Programme.
Bio
Dr Sara Andersdotter is an academic, artist, researcher and PhD supervisor, teaching as a Senior Lecturer on the Visual Communication Programme. Her research interests and expertise include photographic practice and theory, memory, philosophy and fine art. With an undergraduate and a postgraduate degree in Fine Art, Sara completed a PhD in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London in 2015. Her thesis challenges existing metaphors of memory, while putting forward an alternative framework for exploring the experience of memory in art practice. This framework draws on Deleuzoguattarian and Bergsonian theories, and is explored and tested through her installation art practice.
Sara has worked in Higher Education since 2005, and has taught and led practical, theoretical and research modules across both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at different institutions in the UK. She takes an inclusive and collaborative approach to teaching and learning, and has worked on several projects where students have been invited to become active participants and collaborators, including curriculum design, and a non-hierarchical journal of research.
As a practicing artist, Sara has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999. Her art practice is primarily image and installation based, using a range of different media, from photography and projections of still and moving images, to growing matter, bait camera footage, smell, heat, and the use of text-to-speech software.
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Research statement
Dr Sara Andersdotter is a researcher, artist and academic with research interests and expertise in photographic practice and theory, fine art, memory, and philosophy.
Her research centres on photography, the experience of memory, the fleeting and the undocumented, minoritarian / fringe groups, voice as material, non-human photography, and philosophy - primarily Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and their concepts of multiplicities, becomings, and minor/major thought.
Professional Membership, Affiliation and Consultancy
- Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
- Experimental Pedagogies Research Group, University of the Arts London
- External Examiner, 2022 – currently. ArtEZ, Arnhem, The Netherlands
- Validation Advisor - MA Creative Design Enterprise, 2020, Northern School of Art (validated via the Arts University Bournemouth)
- Chief Examiner, 2018 – currently. Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University
- External Examiner, 2018 – 2022. Pre-Masters in Art & Design, The University of Hertfordshire
- External Examiner, 2017-2019. BA (Hons) Fine Art, Teesside University
- 2015 Internal funding from Ravensbourne University London
- 2014 Internal funding from Ravensbourne University London