Dr Jim Brogden FRSA

Profile

My research inhabits a broad area within visual communication culture, including: visual sociology / ethnography, social semiotics / multimodality, creative / photographic practice, with a particular interest in the contested notions surrounding landscape representation, collective memory, and place. My approach to research is informed by a long, and varied career as a professional visual artist, and designer in the television and music industries. I actively embrace practice research and critical writing to provoke new critical discourses.

Specific areas of research interest include:  

• visual communications culture
• social semiotics and multimodality
• visual sociology/ethnography
• landscape representation(s)
• spatial poetics/politics
• critical research-led image-making

In relation to Ph.D. supervision, I'm particularly interested in supporting inter-disciplinary research projects. 

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London, UK)

Member of the International Visual Sociology Association (New York, USA)

Responsibilities

• Director of Practice Research

Professional memberships

• International Visual Sociology Association
• Fellow Royal Society of Arts
• Open Spaces Society

Student education

My teaching roles include management and delivery on various modules across film, photography, media, and dissertation supervision.