Institute of Art and Technology publications

Between 2022 and 2025, Institute of Art and Technology (IAT) researchers achieved 527 outputs including:

Selected outputs are representative of diversity of research topics and types of outputs at a high quality level.

Between 2022 and 2025, IAT members and cross-Lab nationally and internationally reported activities included:

• 116 talks or conference presentations
• 26 keynotes
• 34 conferences organised or chaired
• 63 research seminars or workshops
• Nine contributions to policy
• 13 peer review panels or colleges
• 27 membership of professional bodies or boards
• 18 fellowships or residencies
• 54 external exhibitions
• 11 awards

Our public gallery ERL (led by Dr Eyene, Dr Schofield) presented curated programme including:

• 12 major international exhibitions
• 10 PGR snapshot exhibitions
• Six high profile international artists residencies
• 31 public engagement events

The ERL serves as a platform for inclusive research co-creation and exchange in collaboration with our key cultural partners (Tate Liverpool, LB, JMPP), staff, students, PGRs and non-academic public. These activities attracted extensive media coverage and new audiences (HB23 attracted over 156.000 visitors, 120 international press reviews with 789 unique visits and 258 million combined audience)

For full list of outputs please consult individual staff profiles.

Examples include:

• Barea, Santos C., et al, Developing Multimodal Data-driven Art-inspired Bowel Cancer Screening Promotion Images project, novel use of illustration as an active, data-driven tool in cancer-screening promotion and public health comms, Information, 16(11), 2025, p.935.
• Eyene, Ch., curated exhibition series, Botanical Histories and Colonial Legacies (2022-2026), the first series of exhibitions addressing historical gaps and new narratives of colonial impact on Black lives in Liverpool, Britain, and the Global South; exhibited at Tate Liverpool; Lolodorf Cameroon, Kunsthal Charlottenberg Denmark, Kew Gardens London.
• Colin Fallows, curated Into the Light – Jamie Reid: A Memorial Exhibition (2024), the first posthumous exhibition of Reid’s work; over one-hundred rare and previously unseen works, ERL LJMU.
• Ibi, A., co-curated The Missing Thread: Untold Stories of Black British Fashion, exhibition (2023-24), Somerset House, London; the first research on impact of Black creativity uncovering marginalised narratives and revising fashion art history (impact i.e.new Joe Caseley-Hayford award for emerging Black fashion designers).
• Krysa, J., co-edited book, Curating Superintelligences: Reader on AI and Future Curating (Open Humanities Press, 2025); the first book worldwide to focus on AI and the curatorial field, highlighting emerging research and practice; 22 chapters, 397pp.
• Leaper, H., co-edited book, Post-1945 Art Collections and Regional Research Networks (Routledge, 2026); foregrounding regional collections and innovative co-production methodologies based on collaborative scholarship (case study: IAT’s embedded posts and research labs).
• Potter, R. C., co-curated 41st EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art: Platform Commission (2025), informed by their lived experience, examining methodologies of autistic knowledge, inclusion, reduction of barriers for disabled people in the production/presentation of artworks; Arts Council Ireland.
• Roughley, M.,et al, journal article, Development of 3D training models for the identification and classification of colorectal polyps, a pioneering endoscopy training; published in Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 47(4), 2024, pp.119-135.
• Roughley, M., edited volume, Approaches for Science Illustration and Communication, Springer Nature Switzerland (2023), introduces emerging interdisciplinary practices helping experts/non-experts engage with scientific knowledge through visual narratives.
• Wilkinson, D., Hampton, J., Hermida, L. Roughley. M. (2024). The Ecologies of Hilbre Island - A Creative Expedition. Being Human Festival: School of Advanced Study, University of London, Arts and Humanities Research Council and The British Academy.