Practice-based PHD on a subject of Inclusive Re/visualisation of Women’s Work

Towards an Inclusive Re/visualisation of Women’s Work
The Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries of the University of Sunderland are pleased to advertise a funded PhD studentship through the Northern Bridge Consortium Collaborative Doctoral Awards Competition.
This collaborative practicebased project between the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries and the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens  will use the Museum’s rich collections of industrial photographs and related material in local/regional/national collections to map, reframe, and create innovative visual interpretations that capture the changing socioeconomic characteristics and conditions
of women’s work in Sunderland. In doing so, it seeks to produce novel inclusive narratives for the Museum by juxtaposing historical and new photographic imagery depicting women’s work and enhance public engagement by empowering local women, those identifying as women and nonbinary to share their stories and photographs.

Research questions

How can historical photographs and narratives of Sunderland’s industry illuminate the changing meaning and nature of women’s work?

What roles can lens-based media play in representing women at work and their labour beyond established documentary practices and against a changing landscape of work in the regional industries?

How can different types of photographic imagery depicting women’s work and oral histories be synthesised and preserved in inclusive museum narratives?

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