Gina Wall
Programme Director, BA (Hons), MLitt, PhD, SFHEA, InSEA
GSA Highlands & Islands
Altyre campus
Research Interests
photography, landscape, philosophy, contemporary archaeology, food heritage, archive
Research Profile
Gina’s research interests concern our practices with landscape; how landscapes are shaped and produced and the ways in which cultural and material remains continue to haunt the landscape in the present, through what we might think of as the living archive. Gina has undertaken a range of projects in collaboration with practitioners from different disciplines, and her research interests have become increasingly focused on speculations about the future, especially in rural environments. Working, walking and practising with others, she aims to engage in practice-based research which enables and develops transdisciplinary understandings of landscape, place and future heritage.
Gina is an invited member of a number of research networks: Land2 (led by the University of Leeds), PLaCE Internationmore...
Gina’s research interests concern our practices with landscape; how landscapes are shaped and produced and the ways in which cultural and material remains continue to haunt the landscape in the present, through what we might think of as the living archive. Gina has undertaken a range of projects in collaboration with practitioners from different disciplines, and her research interests have become increasingly focused on speculations about the future, especially in rural environments. Working, walking and practising with others, she aims to engage in practice-based research which enables and develops transdisciplinary understandings of landscape, place and future heritage.
Gina is an invited member of a number of research networks: Land2 (led by the University of Leeds), PLaCE International (led by the University of Dundee) and previously, the AHRC funded Northern Peripheries Network (led by University of Northumbria). Gina is an invited member of the RSE funded International Network for Contemporary Archaeology in Scotland (INCAScot) and the RSE and RIA funded Rural Reimagined network. She is the GSA Co-ordinator for the Arctic Sustainable Art and Design Thematic Network of the University of the Arctic (led by Lapland University) and a member of the cross disciplinary Reading Landscapes research group at The Glasgow School of Art. She holds a practice-based PhD from the University of Dundee/DJCAD and is also a Senior Fellow of the HEA.
Qualifications
2011 Doctor of Philosophy, DJCAD/University of Dundee
Thesis title: Photographic Dissemination: iterations of difference in the text of landscape and photographic writing
2004 Master of Letters in Aesthetics by research, University of Aberdeen
Thesis title: The silvered surface: a philosophical enquiry into the nature of photographic images
1995 Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours, Edinburgh College of Art/University of Edinburgh
Dissertation title: Joseph Beuys: the art of the individual
