Dr. Ellen Sampson

Dr Sampson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Northumbria University. She is an artist and material culture researcher who uses film, photography, performance and writing, to explore the relationships between bodies, and things both in museums and archives and in everyday life. Her current research projects include Wearable Objects/Curative Things  (with Dr. Fiona Johnstone , Durham, and  Dr. Dawn Woolley, and Dr Paula Chambers, LAU) examining the relationship between medical humanities, fashion research and visual arts practice (book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); Enclothed Knowledges (with Dr. Ben Barry, The New School) which  explores the role of practice-based research in Fashion Studies and The Afterlives of Clothes which explores the power  of damaged garments in museum collections; Her monograph Worn: Footwear , Attachment and the Affects of Wear was published by Bloomsbury in December 202