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Dr Joanne Armitage

  • Position: Associate Professor in Critical Digital Practice
  • Areas of expertise: digital media; practice-based research; participatory digital methods; gender and technology; environment.
  • Email: J.L.Armitage@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: Clothworkers North

Profile

Joanne Armitage is a digital media practitioner, researcher and artist. She is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Leeds, Faculty Associate at Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society, and a Researcher at the Planetary Praxis Research Group, University of Cambridge. Additionally, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media, Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University (2022–23).

Joanne is co-founder of the international maker-activist collective sus_NET (Sustainable Making for Feminist Action), which collaboratively explores issues of justice and equity through creative, technical and community practice. Her work centres on developing methods to unpack, critically engage with and rebuild technology alongside activist groups and within community contexts. Her approach emphasises slowness, play and the everyday to untangle issues of agency, power and expertise.

As Principal Investigator, she has led the projects Sustainable Making for Feminist Action (2020–22) and Equally Digital, Digitally Equal (2020–21), Protest! (2022–23), Include (2022–23) and Making Spaces (2023–present). Joanne co-convenes the Digital Cultures Research Group at the University of Leeds and leads the undergraduate BA Digital Media programme. She holds the Daphne Oram Award for Digital Innovation and the Francis Chagrin Award, and has worked extensively as a creative digital media practitioner.

Responsibilities

  • Programme Leader for Digital Media BA

Research interests

  • Partiicpatory and digital methods
  • Gender and technology
  • Sensory media and digital sensing
  • Practice-research
  • Physical computing and hacking

Qualifications

  • Music Multimedia and Electronics (BSc)
  • PhD Practice-led Sound and Music Computing
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Student education

I teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

  • COMM2126 Digital Media and the Senses

  • COMM3705 Digital Media Projects

  • COMM5780 Digital Practice

Research groups and institutes

  • Digital Cultures
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