Research keywords (1):
Photomedia (history, theory and practice), visual literacy and visual methodologies.
Research theme for competitive and other funds (6):
2022 - 2026 Landscape Loading: a study of anticipated change, trust and photomedia literacy in "New Tohoku"
2023 - 2024 An archive of rephotography projects along Tohoku’s recovering coast
2020 - 2024 Rephotographing Uncertainty in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
2021 - 2022 Re-examining the role of Google Street View in visual methodologies
2019 - 2022 Finding Time: temporality and photomedia literacy as experienced during the "Recovery and Reconstruction Games"
2019 - 2020 Finding Time in a Can: Time Poverty and Photomedia
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Papers (14):
McLeod, Gary Roderick. Confessions of a Crap Visual Researcher. Membrana. 2023. 8. 1. 145-162
McLeod, Gary Roderick. Confessions of a Crap Visual Researcher. Fotografija. 2023
McLeod, Gary Roderick. Slow glass: a case for photomedia literacy. Journal of Visual Literacy. 2023. 42. 4. 287-308
McLeod,Gary Roderick. Visual Literacy and Virtual Rephotography. Book of Selected Readings 2021. 2021
McLeod,Gary Roderick. Canning Time: Problematizing Time Poverty with Pinhole Cameras. Tsukuba Global Science Week 2020 (TGSW2020) Art Session - Capacity for Depiction: the role of art and design in science proceedings. 2020. 7-11
Welcome to Neo-Tohoku: Rephotography and Models of Uncertain Change
(Photomedia 2024)
Yokai in the Machine: reconsidering a gesture of 3D scanning in modelling formative qualities of artwork for the visually impaired
(Photomedia 2024)
Between Lay and Me: Navigating representations of change in rephotographing Challengers Japan
(Beyond the Ocean Depths: Revisiting the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876))
Seen being made: the magic in photomedia literacy
(55th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Ways of Seeing)
Caffenol in the Darkroom: Exploring its Potential as a Tool for Teaching Visual Literacy
(55th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Ways of Seeing)
2009 - 2016 University of the Arts London Photography Doctoral Program
2006 - 2008 University of the Arts London Digital Arts Post-graduate Program
1998 - 2001 Wimbledon School of Art Fine Art Undergraduate Program
Professional career (3):
Ph.D (University of the Arts London)
MA (University of the Arts London)
BA (hons) (Wimbledon School of Art)
Work history (7):
2019/04 - 現在 University of Tsukuba Faculty of Art and Design Assistant Professor
2016/09 - 2021/09 Falmouth University Institute of Photography Lecturer
2017/04 - 2019/03 Hosei University Global and Interdisciplinary Studies Assistant Professor
2012/09 - 2015/01 Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Art and Design Lecturer
2011/07 - 2012/07 Raffles Design Institute Visual Communication Design Lecturer
2011/01 - 2011/05 Canterbury Christ Church University Department of Media Lecturer
2010/10 - 2011/05 Loughborough University Visual Communication Design Lecturer
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Committee career (2):
2021/04 - 2022/03 Tsukuba Global Science Week 2021 Chair Art and Design session
2020/04 - 2021/03 Tsukuba Global Science Week 2020 Co-chair Art and Design session
Association Membership(s) (4):
International Visual Literacy Association
, Royal Photographic Society
, Society for Photographic Education
, International Visual Sociology Association