Savannah Dodd, PhD
Dr Savannah Dodd (she/her) is the Founder and Co-Director of the Photography Ethics Centre.
Savannah earned her doctorate in anthropology at QUB (2023), her master's in anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies in Geneva (2015), and her bachelor's in anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis (2012). Savannah currently holds an ESRC/NINE funded postdoctoral fellowship in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). Savannah also maintains her own photography practice.
In 2024, she received the Education Award from the International Visual Literacy Association. In 2023, she delivered a TEDx talk at the university titled “Changing the world with visual media ethics.” In 2020, her edited volume, Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods, was published by Emerald Publishing Group.
Savannah sits on the boards of the Belfast Photo Festival and of Source Magazine, as well as the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Panel of Photo Museum Ireland. She was previously a member of the Ethical Journalism Network’s UK Committee and of the ethics panel for the Environmental Photographer of the Year Award. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).