Vital Signs 2: Keynote speakers- Gillian Rose
Biography
Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open University, and her current research interests lie broadly within the field of visual culture and visual methodologies. I'm interested in how different ways of seeing and not-seeing work in social spaces like living rooms and shopping malls. One long-term project has been looking at family photos as visual objects that circulate between a range of different practices in the global visual economy, and the resulting book, Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment, was published by Ashgate in March 2010. Other work has been looking at experiences of designed urban spaces. Last year I completed a project on this theme with Dr Monica Degen at Brunel University (ESRC grant number RES-062-23-0223), in which we compared how many people experienced two rather different town centres: Milton Keynes and Bedford (www.urban-experience.net) [opens in new window]. I'm also interested in more innovative ways to produce social science research, especially using visual materials.
See Gillian's web page for more details of her research and publications [opens in a new window]
Gillian will be giving a plenary session on Thursday 9 September entitled 'Inhabiting spaces, seeing things: complex visualities and the making of private spaces'
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