Katrina Whitehead

Katrina Whitehead is a lecturer in Fashion Promotion and Creative Writing, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Huddersfield since 2017. Drawing on her interdisciplinary practice in photography, her research areas include feminism and post-feminism within fashion design and fashion photography. 

Katrina studied Fine Art, graduating in 2004 with a BA (Hons.) in Fine Art at Bretton Hall College / University of Leeds, taught by Professor Rob Ward a practising Sculptor and Professor Griselda Pollock whose area of expertise is in Feminist Studies in Art History. 

Katrina went on to study a Masters in Printmaking at Bradford College of Art where she became interested in photo silkscreen printmaking and bookmaking. 

In 2007 Katrina went on to gain a PGCE from the University of Huddersfield and obtained a Fellowship in the Higher Education Academy. Katrina is a qualified Licentiate member of the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP) and former Chair. of BIPP (Yorkshire).

PhD research

Katrina is researching a PhD-in practice within the department of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. Her research explores photography and fashion, deconstructing Crime Photo Novels through the female gaze. Originally inspired by research into the women in her family tree during lockdown, she uses family photographs, letters, diaries, vintage ephemera and artefacts, to bring women to life using a blend of truth and fiction. Katrina has been working collaboratively with a costumier and a milliner to recreate the true story of murder victim Mary Rogers, from a female perspective.  

Katrina has exhibited internationally and spoken at conferences including the Royal Photographic Society and the University of Wrocław, Poland.

Feminism and Post-Feminism, especially in relation to fashion and photography