Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The University of Brighton has a long history in practice and scholarship around graphic narrative. The Comics and Graphic Narratives Research Excellence Group champions, promotes and celebrates this research, building on the Graphic Brighton conference, which has been held on campus since 2014, attracting comics researchers from across the globe.
Renowned sequential art creators who have studied or worked at the university include former Comics Laureate Hannah Berry, animator and graphic designer Woodrow Phoenix, award winning cartoonist Isabel Greenberg, experimental novelist Graham Rawle, and beloved children’s illustrator Raymond Briggs. Work featured at the top of this page is by Brighton based scholars and practitioners Daniel Locke and Ottillie Hainsworth.
Comics are a relatively young field of academic enquiry, but one with increasing far-reaching implications as seen in conferences such as Graphic Medicine, and the International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference. University of Brighton researchers have participated in this growing body of conferences and our scholarship is being widely and successfully published.
Affiliated additional members of the Comics and Graphic Narratives Research Excellence Group include Dr. Muna Al Jawad (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) and Thomas Gebhart (University of the Arts, London) and Dr. Elle Whitcroft (Brighton and Sussex Medical School).
Please visit our Blog to find out about REG members’ recent events and activities.
If you are interested in working with us, please contact the leads: Alex Fitch [email protected] or Barbara Chamberlain [email protected]
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Profiles
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Matthew Adams
- School of Humanities and Social Science - Principal Lecturer
- Education Research Excellence Group
- Understanding childhood and adolescence Research Excellence Group
- Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
- Comics and Graphic Narratives Research Excellence Group
- Centre for Environment and Society
- Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
Person: Academic
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Alex Fitch
- School of Art and Media - Lecturer
- University of Brighton - IT Support Technician
- Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
- Experimental Design Practices Research Excellence Group
- Radical Methodologies (RaM) Research Excellence Group
- Comics and Graphic Narratives Research Excellence Group
- Doctoral College
- School of Arch, Tech and Eng
Person: Academic, Doctor of Philosophy
Projects
- 3 Finished
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Transforming trans-national landscapes of gender-based violence through trans-sensory storying
Murray, L. (PI) & Moriarty, J. (CoI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/02/23 → 31/01/24
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Pavlov and the kingdom of dogs: Storying experimental animal histories through arts-based research
Adams, M. (PI), Wilson, J. (CoI) & Burrows, S. (CoI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/10/22 → 30/09/24
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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ImmobsGBV: The immobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic
Murray, L. (PI) & Moriarty, J. (CoI)
10/11/20 → 9/11/21
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Storying the immobilities of gender violence in the UK and Mexico
Murray, L., Moriarty, J., Soto Villagrán, P. & Sabido Ramos, O., 9 Jan 2026, 1 ed. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 276 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
Crunch Time
Pollen, A., 12 Dec 2025, UK Crisp Packets 1970-2000: The incomplete collection of Chris Packet. London: Sports BangerResearch output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter
Open AccessFile -
Hauntology, classical myth and Gothic aesthetics: monstrous women in comics
Chamberlin, B. & Buck, L., 30 Jun 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Photographic Heroines and Cameras as Narrative Devices of Possibility: Intertwined Intermedia in British Girls’ Comics, c.1950-1990
Pollen, A. (Presenter)
26 Nov 2026 → 27 Nov 2026Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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UK Crisps: Jonny Banger and Annebella Pollen in conversation
Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)
25 Mar 2026Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Children, Cameras, Comics
Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)
5 Feb 2025Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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