Dr Jim Brogden FRSA

Profile

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

A member of the International Visual Sociology Association

A member of The Open Spaces Society

Responsibilities

• The development of "practice research" within the School, Faculty.

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

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. 

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>