Savannah Dodd

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Savannah Dodd, PhD holds an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). In 2017, she founded the Photography Ethics Centre, a social enterprise organisation dedicated to promoting ethical, visual, and media literacy. In 2020, her edited volume Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods was published by Emerald. In 2021, she achieved fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Savannah earned her PhD in anthropology from Queen’s University Belfast (2023), her master's in anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies in Geneva (2015), and her bachelor's in anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis (2012). Savannah is a member of the Ethical Journalism Network’s UK Committee and of the board of Source Magazine. She previously sat on the Ethics Panel for the Environmental Photographer of the Year Award.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Founder and Director, Photography Ethics Centre
  • 2024–present
    Postdoctoral fellow, Queen's University Belfast
  • 2023–2024
    Practitioner's Appointment, Queen's University Belfast
  • 2021–2022
    Course Writer, Open College of the Arts
  • 2016–2017
    Visiting Research Associate, Queen's University Belfast

Education

  • 2023 
    Queen's University Belfast, PhD in Anthropology
  • 2015 
    Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, MA in Anthropology and Sociology
  • 2012 
    Washington University in St. Louis, BA in Anthropology and Religious Studies

Publications

  • 2023
    Obscuring the Working Class: Authorship, ownership, and the accrual of capital in photographic archives, Membrana
  • 2022
    Photography and dignity in dementia care, The Lancet
  • 2020
    Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods, Emerald Publishing

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Member of the International Visual Literacy Association
  • Member of the Association for Photography in Higher Education
  • Member of the Society for Photographic Educators

Contact Savannah for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision