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Research interests
Harriet Atkinson researches the history of design for communication, with a particular focus on exhibitions as visual communications and diplomatic contacts. From February 2019 to January 2023 Harriet is an AHRC Leadership Fellow, working on the project '"The Materialisation of Persuasion": Modernist Exhibitions in Britain for Propaganda and Resistance, 1933 to 1953'. This builds on her recent University of Brighton Rising Stars Award (2017-18), for a project entitled 'Information, Persuasion, Citizenship: Public Exhibitions 1914 to now'.
Scholarly biography
Harriet has previously held research awards from the AHRC (Doctoral Award), British Academy (Small Grant) and Wingate Foundation (Wingate Scholarship). She is a member of the Management Board of University of Brighton's Centre for Design History. While a Faculty Fellow based in the University of Brighton Design Archives from 2010 to 2013, Harriet wrote a number of essays, reviews and her first monograph The Festival of Britain: A Land and its People (I.B. Tauris, 2012). Harriet was awarded her doctorate from the Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum's joint history of design programme in 2007. She studied for a BA (Hons) in English and Related Literature with History of Art at University of York and for her MA in Art Museum Studies at the Courtauld Institute, University of London.
Harriet regularly undertakes peer reviews: for journals and publishers including Journal of Design History, The Sculpture Journal, Literature & History, Critical Studies, Contemporary British History and Bloomsbury Academic, Berg, Palgrave Macmillan, Manchester University Press; for academic conferences including DHS, ICDHS, Design Research Society, International Association of Societies of Design Research and for academic grant applications and awards including Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the Icelandic Research Fund.
Supervisory Interests
Harriet is a registered PhD supervisor and welcomes applications from prospective PhD candidates with interests in:
- the history of art, design and visual culture for propaganda, protest, activism or resistance
- the history of graphic and visual communication in the expanded field
- the history and material culture of exhibitions and displays
- design as the focus for transnational or diplomatic exchange
Education/Academic qualification
Master, Courtauld Institute of Art
PhD, Royal College of Art
Bachelor, University of York
External positions
External Examiner, University of Reading
Jun 2019 → Jun 2022External Examiner, Birkbeck University of London
Jul 2016 → Sep 2019Executive Trustee, Design History Society
2015 → 2021Keywords
- NC Drawing Design Illustration
- NX Arts in general
- N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
- NA Architecture
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Research Output 2007 2020
Exhibitions and Transnational Exchange: Art and Design, Borders and Boundaries from 1945
Atkinson, H., Clarkson, V. (ed.) & Lichtman, S. (ed.) 2020 (Accepted/In press)Research output: Book/Report › Book - edited
Artists, Refugees and the Festival of Britain
Atkinson, H. Mar 2019 (Accepted/In press) Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and Their Contribution to British Visual Culture. Bohm-Duchen, M. (ed.). LondonResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Design and Culture journal on 'Design as an object of diplomacy post-1945'
Atkinson, H. (ed.) & Clarkson, V. (ed.) 31 Jul 2017 9, 2, p. 117-262 146 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
The Festival of Britain
Atkinson, H. 1 Oct 2017 Designs on Britain. Birrell, R. (ed.). London, p. 93-102 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Design Research – History, theory, practice: histories for future-focused thinking
Atkinson, H. & Oppenheimer, M. R. 1 Jun 2016 p. 0-0 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Other
Activities 2014 2018
Entangled Relations
Atkinson, H. (Organiser), Buckley, C. (Organiser), Ysanne Holt (Organiser)Activity: Workshop
College Art Association Annual Conference
Atkinson, H. (Organiser), Clarkson, V. (Organiser), Sarah Lichtman (Organiser)Activity: Conference
"From the planning of the kitchen to the planning of the nation"
Atkinson, H. (Presenter)Activity: Invited talk