Since October 2020 I’ve been working on a CHASE AHRC funded collaborative PhD project The Culture, Politics and Lived Experience of Health: Zines at Wellcome Collection at the University of Kent and Wellcome Collection.

My PhD research looks at zines made around health, illness, neurodivergence and madness, particularly those in Wellcome Library’s collection. I’m interested in how “liminality” might be an alternative to thinking about zines as marginal. Within this I look not just at individual zines, but the implications and impact of bringing zines into the institutional context of Wellcome Collection; through exploring the history of the zine collection, it’s relationship to the work Wellcome Collection does and how it could develop into the future, I hope to propose some different ways zines can act on the institutions they are held in.

I am particularly interested in the ethics of zine research and in creating a Zine Researchers’ Code of Ethics.

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Published Work:

Burn After Reading,