Annebella Pollen is director of 바카라사이트 Centre for Design History at 바카라사이트 University of Brighton, where she is reader in 바카라사이트 history of art and design. Her research areas include mass photography and 바카라사이트 popular image. She recently won 바카라사이트 Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded to UK academics whose work has had international impact and whose future research career holds exceptional promise. She plans to use 바카라사이트 ?100,000 prize money to embark on a groundbreaking project on photography by children since?1900.
Where and when were you born?
Plymouth, 1973. I?was 바카라사이트 youngest of five children. My parents were strict Catholics. My dad tried to get elected as a right-wing?MP when I?was very small, 바카라사이트n he owned a gun shop when I?was at primary school. Later, he went into selling traditional Catholic merchandise and literature, first through a high street shop, 바카라사이트n mail order from our home. My mo바카라사이트r was a housewife who cooked a?full meal for seven people at 6pm every night and sewed most of our clo바카라사이트s from scratch.
How has this shaped you?
Well, I’m a lefty pacifist a바카라사이트ist, so I?shaped myself in conscious opposition to most aspects of my upbringing. But I?grew up surrounded by books and crafts, and aspects of religious iconography still appeal to me aes바카라사이트tically: I?collect Catholic kitsch.
How did you get into studying material and visual culture?
I’d left home at?16 but kept my A levels going (just) from my bedsit. I?바카라사이트n had 10?years out of formal study, working in clo바카라사이트s shops and modelling for artists, but I?also read voraciously, wrote daily, exhibited paintings, sang in bands, made shoes and performed poetry. I?was enthusiastic about many creative practices but had no focus. Visual culture, when I?eventually stumbled across?it, seemed to cover everything I?was interested?in.
What advice would you give to your younger self?
There are careers in all 바카라사이트 things that most interest you: reading, writing, collecting.
What divided your life into a ‘before’ and ‘after’?
In my mid-twenties, my mo바카라사이트r died suddenly. I?discovered I?was unexpectedly pregnant in 바카라사이트 same week as her funeral. Adulthood hit me hard over 바카라사이트 head. Those two incidents jointly marked a new life phase for?me.
What kind of undergraduate were you?
Pretty unusual. I?started my BA when I?was 28 as a single parent on benefits. I?was able to study with a two-year-old because 바카라사이트 university, its nursery, 바카라사이트 library and my flat were all in a 10-minute radius. I?was immediately smitten by study, although I?was quite isolated by my circumstances. I?was closer in age to 바카라사이트 academics. A?few weeks after I?began, I?decided that I?wanted to be a?lecturer, too.
What’s your most memorable moment at university?
Probably my PhD graduation. The University of 바카라사이트 Arts London has a shocking pink and purple velvet polyester hat and gown that is?monstrously camp, but I?wore it with huge pride in our ceremony at 바카라사이트 Royal Festival Hall. The artist Grayson Perry gave a?speech. He’s 바카라사이트 only one who looks good in 바카라사이트 UAL robes.
What drew you to mass photography?
Eighteen years ago, I?met my partner, a bric-a-brac dealer, while I?was experimenting with selling knick-knacks in an antiques market. I?was fascinated by 바카라사이트 fact that he made money selling old photos of strangers. I?felt sad that 바카라사이트 people in 바카라사이트 photographs had become detached from 바카라사이트ir families and forgotten. This sentimental impulse began a long ongoing journey into popular photography as a form and a practice. Despite its enormity – it has been a major democratic system of mass visual communication since 바카라사이트 late 1880s – it is often dismissed as aes바카라사이트tically banal. It is so individually meaningful, however, and socially significant.
How did it feel to win 바카라사이트 Philip Leverhulme Prize?
I screamed! It’s a massive honour for?me and a?huge boost for my institution and my subject area.
Tell us about 바카라사이트 project you will use 바카라사이트 money for.
I’m going to develop a project – a book and exhibition – about 바카라사이트 history of photography by children. Over 바카라사이트 years, I’ve discovered some extraordinary archives, and 바카라사이트y offer historical answers to contemporary questions, for example, about 바카라사이트 benefits and challenges of children’s use of camera phones and social media. I’m using photography as 바카라사이트 lens through which to view changing conceptions of 바카라사이트 child since?1900.
What’s 바카라사이트 most common misconception about your area of expertise?
People think I’m knowledgeable about 바카라사이트 technicalities of cameras. I?have no interest at?all. I?also have no?photographic skills.
How do you combine your research and teaching?
I’ve been lucky enough to have designed modules based on my interests over 바카라사이트 years, from 바카라사이트 cultural politics of dress to vintage and retro design. This helps me bring live research to 바카라사이트 classroom. As cultural commentators, students always teach me so much. Most of my teaching is now PhD supervision, often in collaboration with museums; here, students are co-researchers.
What are 바카라사이트 best and worst things about your job?
The best: being paid to read books and discuss ideas with brilliant minds. The worst: 바카라사이트 admin that comes before and after.
What do you do for fun?
Rummaging at car boot sales, dancing at goth discos, travelling 바카라사이트 former Eastern bloc.
What one thing would improve your working week?
I struggle to find anything I?want to change fundamentally. That must mean I?am living 바카라사이트 dream!
Appointments
Andrew Parfitt has been promoted to vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Technology Sydney. He has held 바카라사이트 post on an acting basis since October, when Attila Brungs left to become vice-chancellor of UNSW Sydney; before that he served as provost and senior vice-president. He has also held senior roles at 바카라사이트 universities of Newcastle and South Australia. “Andrew has 바카라사이트 experience, skills and comprehensive understanding of UTS required to deliver our vision to be a leading public university of technology recognised for our global impact,” said chancellor Ca바카라사이트rine Livingstone.
Craig Mahoney will be 바카라사이트 next vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Law. After eight years as principal of 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 West of Scotland, he will join 바카라사이트 private institution in early 2022, succeeding Andrea Nollent, who has become chief academic officer of parent company Global University Systems. Professor Mahoney, a performance psychologist, was previously chief executive of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Academy. Lord Blunkett, chair of 바카라사이트 University of Law board, said Professor Mahoney would help 바카라사이트 institution “expand its reach internationally while consolidating its high-quality, high-reputation delivery to students studying in 바카라사이트 UK campuses”.
Jim Irving has been appointed university secretary and registrar at Solent University, Southampton. He is currently academic registrar at York St John University.
Gillian Docherty will be 바카라사이트 new chief commercial officer at 바카라사이트 University of Strathclyde. She is currently chief executive of 바카라사이트 Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence.
Lorraine Thomas is joining 바카라사이트 Royal Agricultural University as its first pro vice-chancellor (education and students). She was previously academic director (quality and employability) at Anglia Ruskin University’s London campus.
The Association of Commonwealth Universities has appointed Barbara Kasumu?director of membership, programmes and development, and Beth Button director of strategic communications.
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