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Dr Sarah Jackson

Associate Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Sarah Jackson is a poet and researcher who works at the intersections of writing, art and technology in order to address questions of social and environmental justice. Bringing together creative and critical practice, her current work focuses on geopoetics, displacement and ways of listening. An award-winning poet, BBC New Generation Thinker, NTU VC Outstanding Researcher, AHRC Leadership Fellow and founding director of (2015 - 2024), Sarah is currently Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor in Arts & Environnment at Northumbria.

Sarah’s publications include (Bloodaxe 2012; awarded the 2013); (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); , a special issue of parallax(2019), co-edited with Camilla Bostock; (Bloomsbury, 2023); Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves, 2024), co-edited with Daniel Cordle; and Hold to Record: Voice Notes from Refugees, co-edited with Olja Mladjenovič (Palewell, 2025). , co-edited with Philip Leonard and Annabel Williams, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in 2026. In 2021, her film Calling Across Borders, co-created with a group of young refugees, was shortlisted for the Best Research Film in the Research in Film Awards; her interactive sound installation , created with Hardi Kurda, has been exhibited in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nottingham, London and Ghent, and was selected for the PRS New Music Biennial 2025.

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