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Dr Joanne Armitage is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, where she has been teaching since 2016. She is also a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, contributing to the Citizen Sense research group led by Prof Jennifer Gabrys.
Education:
- BSc in Music Multimedia and Electronics
- PhD in Practice-led Sound and Music Computing
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Her research critically examines the politics of digital technology, focusing on how it is produced and how it shapes cultural and social practices, particularly in the contexts of environmental justice, equality, and feminist perspectives. She employs participatory, empirical, and digital methods, often collaborating with both expert and non-expert communities to co-develop technologies and infrastructures that support new forms of political agency. Her work integrates sensory media, physical computing, and hacking, with a strong emphasis on touch, haptics, and embodied experiences of technology.
Joanne leads the AHRC networking grant Sus_NET: Sustainable Making for Feminist Action, which explores technological practices through the lenses of sustainability and equality. She has been involved in numerous public-facing projects such as Machine Learning Imaginations and Automation and Me, which use feminist and artistic frameworks to critically engage with emerging technologies like AI and automation. In 2018, she participated in a coding cultural exchange between Yorkshire and Tokyo, funded by Arts Council England, British Council, Daiwa Foundation, and Sasakawa Foundation.
Scientific Awards and Recognitions:
- Sound and Music’s Composer-Curator fund (2018)
- Resident at Somerset House Studios
She advises postgraduate students on their dissertations and contributes to research-led teaching in courses such as Digital Media and the Senses, Digital Practice, and Postgraduate Dissertation. Her interdisciplinary work bridges media, technology, art, and sociology, often resulting in collaborative, community-engaged outputs. She is also an active algorithmic producer and musician, creating music for the Bloomberg series ‘Art + Technology’. Her artistic work has been featured in The Times, Guardian, BBC Radio 3, and BBC Radio 5. Recent commissions include the environmental soundscape Collision Grounds, created with video artist Anya Stewart Maggs.
Joanne is affiliated with the Digital Cultures research group at the University of Leeds and contributes to the AirKit proof-of-concept project within the Citizen Sense research group at the University of Cambridge.
