Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities

Our people

Learn about our team and their expertise in areas from archaeology to games design.

Professor Bryony Whitmarsh

Associate Dean International
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Professor Daniel Ashton

Professor-Cultural & Creative Industries

Research interests

  • Work and the Creative Economy
  • Culture, Data and Place
  • Arts and Cultural Organisations

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Joanna Sofaer

Professor of Archaeology

Research interests

  • The role of cultural and community assets in health and wellbeing
  • The relationship between heritage and wellbeing
  • The social value of archaeology 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Joseph Owen

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Modernist art and literature
  • Theories of sovereignty
  • Philosophies of modernism

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Lexi Webster

Associate Professor of Digital Culture

Research interests

  • corpus-based critical discourse studies
  • social media and communication
  • gender, sexuality and power

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Mike Bintley PhD, SFHEA, FRHistS

Assoc Professor in Medieval English Lit

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nicky Marsh

PROFESSOR

Research interests

  • Intersections between culture and economics
  • Cultural representations of risk, money, finance, markets
  • Gender, feminism and the economy 
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Dr Olu Jenzen

Professor of Media and Digital Culture

Research interests

  • LGBTQ+ youth digital cultures
  • Visual activism
  • Digital culture and social justice 
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Professor Prof Larry Lynch

Head of School

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Ryan Bishop

Professor in Graphic Arts

Research interests

  • Critical Theory
  • Art, Technology and Media
  • Critical Military Studies
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