Dr Katherine Harrison

Katherine's research focusses on visual culture, particularly representations of space, including domestic space and outer space. In 2021-22, she won a Fulbright-Smithsonian Scholar award to conduct research in the space imagery archives of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, DC, which will inform a book on the visual culture of the new space age and a taught module for students entitled 'Space Media'. From 2018-20, Katherine was co-investigator on a Leverhulme/British Academy-funded research project examining stigmatising representations of space and place in Factual Welfare Television (also known as 'poverty porn'). Her Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded PhD thesis (Lancaster University, 2009) was an analysis of iconic photographic images that were widely disseminated in the print media of the mid-twentieth century, including the nuclear mushroom cloud, the foetus in utero and the planet Earth seen from an 'outside' perspective. During her doctoral studies, she was an AHRC/ESRC-funded Visiting Research Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. She has also published research articles related to women's domestic craft practices and feminist research methods.