Category: New Members

Gillian’s research emerges from a performance and visual art practice concerned with identity, site and object. Her work considers the embodied and material experience of the uncanny feminine. Gillian’s art research employs found and detritus materials to prompt new somatic or memory experience. Often, Gillian has been commissioned to respond to the specificities of site…

PARTICIPATE welcomes our newest member Dr Ranis Cheng. Ranis’s research is situated at the intersection of sustainability, entrepreneurship and fashion, with a particular focus on community based and inclusive approaches. Within entrepreneurship, her work examines how local communities enable sustainable and inclusive entrepreneurial activity. She explores how entrepreneurs, particularly within immigrant communities, mobilise community ties…

Annie Carpenter is a Lecturer in Fine Art and visual artist whose research explores how art can create the conditions for meaningful exchange between art and science. As part of her practice-based PhD with the Cultural Negotiation of Science research group at Northumbria University, Annie uses research-driven art practice to disrupt the standard terrains (physical…

We would like to welcome Dr Laura Griffiths to our PARTICIPATE group. Laura is a researcher and educator whose work is rooted in the intersection of dance and archival practices. Her research explores how embodied and ephemeral practices-particularly dance-can be meaningfully accommodated within archival spaces and methodologies. She is interested in reimagining the ways in…