Zines ASSEMBLE Organisers

Zines ASSEMBLE has been a joint effort, so we thought we’d introduce the organisers. We’ll also be chairing and offering technical support for the symposium, and faciliating the Zine Jam, so expect to see us popping up across the event!

Kin Long Tong is a PhD researcher at the Department of Information Studies, University College London. He is interested in information politics, media activism, archives and libraries studies, and publishing studies. His current research investigates how and why Hong Kong citizens use a wide variety of self-publishing practices for advancing social changes.

Autumn Brown is a PhD researcher at Science Gallery and Trinity College Dublin. Her research explores the role of science in society and the ways in which community-based art practices help folks imagine and create a more just and joyful future for scientific research.

Kirsty Fife is a DIY cultural organiser, zine maker, academic, musician and archivist based in Leeds, Yorkshire. They currently work as Lecturer in Digital Information and Curatorial Practice at Manchester Metropolitan University, and their PhD research explored methods for documenting and archiving current UK-based DIY music spaces.

Tamsin Walker is a PhD researcher at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research explores how people who have been in mental health services or who are at risk of being psychiatrised use zines to craft contention about mental health and challenge epistemic oppression. She also loves making and reading zines and picture-writing.

Lea (as in sea, aka Lilith) Cooper is a zine maker, zine librarian at Edinburgh Zine Library and zine researcher, currently working on collaborative PhD between the University of Kent and Wellcome Collection looking at Wellcome’s zines. Zines ASSEMBLE content is being (temporarily) hosted here on their website!

Zines ASSEMBLE is being supported by Wellcome Collection.