Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab - a research group focused on ensuring sustainable futures for global Holocaust memory in the digitial age.

Digital media philosopher, working at the intersections of digital media studies, media archaeologies, memory studies, Holocaust studies, and continental philosophy. 

Our work in the lab focuses on critical engagement with digital technologies and their application for genocide commemoration and education. We work with:

• heritage professionals
• policymakers
• funders
• creative and tech professionals 
• and an interdisciplinary array of academics.

We seek to:

• produce groundbreaking novel research about the global digital Holocaust memory, with unique insights provided through our increasing dataset of interviews with 'memorymakers' and archiving of digital projects
• advise through policy briefings, events, and our bespoke consultancy/advisory programme how policymakers and funders can better suspport sustainable digital development in the sector, as well as recognise the expertise within the Holocaust memory and education sector that can serve digital policy 
• support digital capacity and literacies building within Holocaust organisations
• create opportunities for learning, sharing and connecting across sectors and disciplines for the betterment of global digital Holocaust memory
• archive digital Holocaust projects, creating a repository for learning and informing improving practice

I completed my PhD at Queen Mary, University of London in 2017. I also hold a BA in Media Arts from Royal Holloway, PGCE in post-compulsory education from the Institute of Education, MA in Film Studies (by independent research) from De Montfort University, Post-graduate certificate in Leadership in Education (ILM), and PGCERT in Higher Education from the University of Sussex. Before working in HE, I taught media, film and communication studies in sixth forms and further education collegues, trained media and film teachers, and produced short films.

I am currently co-supervising two PhDs.

I have offered expert advice to a number of commerical and heritage organisations, include the Imperial War Museums and the Claims Conference. I have written policy briefings and working papers for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and the United Nations.

OTHER PROJECTS: 

• '#NeverAgain Vs #NeverHappened: Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation On Social Media' (Co-I), led by Umea University, Sweden
• 'If these Streets Could Talk' XR Prototype (Co-I), led by Parhuzamos Tortenetek Kulturalis Egyesulet, Hungary

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• AI, collective memory, heritage and identity, especially concerning sensitive histories 
• Digital cultures and computational logics, in relation to memory of mass atrocities more broadly
  - the digital and museums, especially memorial museums
  - computer games, VR and AR media
  - digital memory
• Apocalyptical thought in philosophy, theology and cinema
• Animation, affect and memory
• The philosophy of Georges Didi-Huberman, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and their relevance to media archaeology
• Digital media education and pedagogy
  
  
  
  SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  BOOKS
  Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory, (2019) Palgrave Macmillan
  
  EDITED COLLECTIONS
  The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age (Nov 2022), Reframe
  Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research (Oct 2021), Palgrave Macmillan 

MOST RECENT ARTICLES

(Forthcoming) with Samuel Merrill, Mykola Makhortykh, Silvana Mandolessi, Rik Smit and Qi Wang, ‘Handling the Hype: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for Memory Studies’, Memory, Mind, Media

(2025) Provocation – The Holocaust and Computer Games. Digital Memory Dialogues.

(Forthcoming) ‘New Paradigms for Holocaust Memory: From the Limits of Representation to the Possibilities of Interactivity’, Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

(Forthcoming) ‘Towards Decolonising an Undergraduate Documentary and Reality TV Module: An Auto-Ethnography of Teaching Practice’, Media Education Research Journal 13

with Mykola Makhortykh, (2024) ‘Imagining Human-AI Memory Symbiosis: How Re-Remembering the History of Artificial Intelligence can Inform the Future of Collective Memory’, Memory Studies Review

with Kate Marrison, (2024) ‘Social Media and the Entangled Ecology of Holocaust Memory’, Memory, Mind, Media

EXTERNAL ROLES

Co-Chair, Media Education Association 2025- 

President Elect, British and Irish Association of Holocaust Studies, 2025-

Programme Committee, Memory Studies Association Annual Conference, Buenos Aires, 2025-26
Board Member, Media Education Association 2021-
Editor-in-Chief , Digital Holocaust Memory 2020-24; Editor-in-Chief, Digital Memory Dialogues 2024-
Co-founder and Co-chair of Museums and Memory Working Group, Memory Studies Association 2019-23
Board Member and Trustee, Cinema for All 2019-20

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Senior Fellow of Advanced HE and Member of the Institute for Leadership.

FILM PROGRAMMING
I was part of the award-winning programming team at Deptford Community Cinema, Lewisham, London between 2016-2020. I collaborated with IntoFilm Schools' Film Festival, the Telegraph Hill Festival, the Creative Ageing Festival and Troma Entertainment, and was awarded two grants from FilmBank Media and Deptford Ward to setup a travelling cinema for older people in the borough. I was also Festival Director of Deptford Animadocs.