Sian Gouldstone

Dr Sian Gouldstone

  • Lecturer in Digital Photography
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Biography

Sian is the Programme Leader for BA Photography and a Lecturer in Digital Photography at Bournemouth University. She received her MA in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths College, London, in 2010 and passed her PhD viva at the University of Plymouth in 2024 with a thesis entitled: Affective belongings and remediating practices: visualising Imperial formations and unlearning Whiteness in relation to British immigration in Australia.

Sian’s research broadly explores affect and materiality, and she is interested in how whiteness manifests as affect in post-colonialising settler colonial spaces. Sian's photographic practices explore folding and re-photographing as methods for visualising affect, including whiteness as a form of imperial duress and a legacy of British imperialism in suburban spaces.

Research

Passed PhD Viva (with corrections) - June 2024

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Portfolio (L4) - Unit Leader
  • Studio Photography (L5) - Unit Leader
  • Graduate Project Proposal (L6) - Unit Leader
  • Graduate Project (Photography) (L6) - Unit Leader
  • Exhibition (L6) - Unit Leader
  • Understanding the Image (L4) - Lecturer
  • Specialist Practice (L5) - Lecturer
  • Working in Media Industries (L5) - Lecturer
  • Level Leadership (L6)

Conference Presentations

  • Reframing the Archive, Futures of whiteness for post-colonising spaces: interrogating the archival through folding in practice., 26 Sep 2024, Online
  • Vestiges of Memory, Negotiating Nostalgia, Folding Photographs: a practice-led critical examination of whiteness, as a politics of belonging in suburban Naarm., 18 Jul 2024, Canterbury, UK

Qualifications

  • MA in Photography & Urban Cultures (Goldsmiths, University of London, 2010)

Memberships

  • Association for Photographers in Higher Education (APHE), Member (2024-), https://www.aphe.co.uk/
  • HEA, Fellow (2020-),