Sarah Jackson is a poet, curator and critic who works at the intersections of writing, art and technology in order to address questions of social and environmental justice. Bringing together creative and critical practice, her current work focuses on ecopoetics, displacement and ways of listening. An award-winning poet, BBC New Generation Thinker, NTU VC Outstanding Researcher, AHRC Leadership Fellow and founding director of (2015 - 2024), Sarah is currently Vice Chancellor’s Fellow in Creative and Cultural Industries at Northumbria.
Sarah’s publications include (Bloodaxe 2012; awarded the 2013); (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); , a special issue of parallax(2019), co-edited with Camilla Bostock; (Bloomsbury, 2023); and (Five Leaves, 2024), co-edited with Daniel Cordle. In 2021, her film Calling Across Borders, co-created with a group of young refugees, was shortlisted for the Best Research Film in the Research in Film Awards; her interactive sound installation has been exhibited in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nottingham, London and Ghent.
Sarah welcomes proposals from prospective doctoral candidates interested in working in poetry, poetics, art writing, sound studies and the environmental humanities.
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