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Dr Jim Brogden FRSA

Dr Jim Brogden FRSA

  • Position: Associate Professor in Creative Practice
  • Areas of expertise: Visual sociology and ethnography; social semiotics and multimodality; visual culture and communication; photography; landscape representation; poetics of space.
  • Email: J.W.Brogden@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 3446
  • Location: R.1.12 Clothworker's North Building
  • Website: Twitter | LinkedIn | ORCID

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
<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>