Welcome Dr Shireen Walton

The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography is delighted to welcome Dr Shireen Walton, who joins the School as Departmental Lecturer in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology.

I am absolutely delighted to be joining the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography as a Departmental Lecturer in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology. These areas of the discipline have been my academic home since my DPhil studies in the department, and I am thrilled to be working alongside such fantastic colleagues in VMMA and across the School whose work has been so inspiring in shaping my own research. The students also never cease to inspire me – I cannot wait to explore a host of critical questions with them concerning the ongoing development of anthropology and ethnography, the importance of empathy, care and collaboration in our work, and the discipline’s unique contributions to worlds of today and tomorrow.

Dr Walton is visual-digital anthropologist focusing on visual, material and digital culture. Her research interests include photography, visual representations, intergenerational relationships, and digital-visual practices in everyday life, with a focus on images, migration, and social, political and technological change. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Iran, the UK, Italy, and online, and is particularly interested in multimodal and experimental digital-visual methodologies for ethnographic research

Dr Walton will be teaching on the the MSc/MPhil in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology (VMMA), with a research and teaching focus on visual and digital anthropology, and visual, digital and multimodal methods.