Team

Les Roberts is Reader in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Liverpool. Much of his work explores questions of space, culture and everyday life on which he has published widely. He is the author of Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self: The Production of Dwellspace (2024); Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space (2018) and Film, Mobility and Urban Space: A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool (2012). His current research engages poetic-inductive methods, methodological nothingness, and the spatial anthropology of the parochial imagination.

Michelle Henning is Chair in Photography and Media at the University of Liverpool. She writes about the history and theory of photography as well as about museums, exhibitions and design/cultural history. Her books include A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire (2025); Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018); Museum Media (2015) and Museums, Media and Cultural Theory (2006). Her current research is in environmentalism and photography in relation to AI and extractivism.

Alyssa Grossman is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Space and Memory at the University of Liverpool. With a background in social and visual anthropology, her current research examines the politics and poetics of cultural memory, remediations of amateur film and home movies, and the decolonisation of ethnographic museums and archives. In her writing, filmmaking and transdisciplinary/multimedia collaborations, she embraces experimental approaches that unsettle the boundaries between anthropology and contemporary art.

Jordana Blejmar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and co-editor of three books on art and politics in Latin America. She has curated art and photography exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Liverpool, and Paris. Her latest book Cold War Toys. Building Blocks, Miniatures, and Models from the Latin American Southern Cone is forthcoming with UCL Press. She is now working on a project on protest imagery, profiling photography, and biometric images in Latin America.

Wallis is an anthropologist and communication scholar. She studies cultural communication strategies and infrastructures that seek to enable technological, economic and social change (e.g. the branding of Silicon Fen, public networked interactive screens, hyper-local media and alternative digital currencies). In particular she has done research in community and alternative media. In her current research, she studies a broad range of grassroots strategic communication initiatives from a critical interdisciplinary prespective, using creative mixed methods. 

Jamie Jelinski is a Lecturer in Visual Culture and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on the visual culture of law and the criminal justice system. He is the author of Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada (2024). Jelinski's ongoing projects explore the relationship between visual culture and freedom of information legislation, the production of composite facial images by law enforcement, and the role of images in forensic science.