Sarah Kember

Sarah Kember is a Professor of New Technologies of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a prominent role as Director of Goldsmiths Press and teaches on the MA Digital Media program. Her research focuses on digital media, smart technologies, feminist science studies, and the ethics of publishing. Kember is co-editor of journals like Photographies and Feminist Theory.

Research Interests
Her work bridges feminist theory, digital media critique, and science studies. Key areas include the future of publishing, smart media, artificial life, and the intersection of photography with digital technologies. She explores how technology shapes cultural narratives through projects like Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars and Life After New Media.

Grants & Collaborations
Awarded funding for projects such as Friction and Fiction: IP, Copyright and Digital Futures (V&A collaboration) and the CREATe Centre on publishing ethics. She leads interdisciplinary initiatives addressing robotics ethics and digital publishing models.

Labs & Teams
Her academic leadership includes supervising over a dozen PhD students (e.g., Gabriela Mendez Cota, Paolo Ruffino). She collaborates with institutions like the Open Humanities Press and CREATe to advance critical technological and cultural research.