Theresa Wilkie

Director: Design & Culture Directorate

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• E: t.wilkie@salford.ac.uk
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Tuesday 2-4.30

Wednesday 11-12.30

I joined the university in 1998 as a part-time lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies in the School of Art & Design. In 2002 I became a full-time member of staff and in 2003 took over leadership of the Critical and Contextual Studies Curriculum Area which I lead until 2010 when I was appointed Director of Design & Culture.

I have taught critical & contextual studies across all the design programmes in the School of Art & Design at both undergraduate and post graduate level but with a major emphasis on the history and practice of graphic design and photography.  I currently coordinate the modules ‘Dialogues in Design: Photography’ and ‘Communication Theory & Analysis’. I also supervise a range of dissertations.

I work in the field of photography with a particular interest in practice in the context of theory and history.  I have contributed essays to a number of exhibition catalogues and books most recently on the subject of photographic representation of children at play and photography and artists’ books.

I am involved in community engagement and participation and am especially interested in the use of the visual as a means to produce and interpret heritage.

BA (Hons) History of Design  2:1 (1982)

PG Dip Information & Library Studies (1996)

 MA Creative Technology (2000)

 PG Cert in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education (Distinction)  (2003)

Theresa Wilkie & Jane Pendlebury (2012) ’Locating Photography and the Artist’s Book’, in:  Wilkie, Carson, Miller (eds) Photography and the Artist’s Book, Edinburgh:  Museums Etc

Wilkie, Theresa  (2012) 'Representation and Absence: Memories of Play and Leisure', in: Snape, R & Pussard, H & Constantine, M (eds.), Recording Leisure Lives: Everyday Leisure in 20th Century Britain, Leisure Studies Association, Eastbourne, UK, pp.85-95.