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Nick Haeffner
London Metropolitan University,,
Media Arts, 41 Commercial Road,
London, E1 1LA, United Kingdom
Keywords Alfred Hitchcock, Michael
Winterbottom, realism, contemporary
photography, curating, art history,
pedagogy, new media, critical theory
Cecilia Häggström
University of Gothenburg, School of
Design and Craft, Box 131, Goteborg,
SE 405 30, Sweden
Keywords alternative models of
writing, design, design solutions,
thinking through writing, storytelling
is currently writing his next book, Andrew Motion: A Critical Study, to
be published by Liverpool University Press (2014).
› Andrew Motion: Authoring the self, Book 2.0, 1.1, 65-73.
Dr. Nick Haeffner is Senior Lecturer in Communications at London
Metropolitan University, where he teaches modules on the history,
theory, practice and economics of film and photography. He also
teaches art history and critical theory on the MA in Curating the
Contemporary run in conjunction with the Whitechapel Gallery. He is
the author of Alfred Hitchcock (Pearson 2005); several articles on
Hitchcock and several articles relating to media and cultural theory. He
co-curated Re-Possessed, a travelling new media exhibition, and was
on the editorial board of Vertigo magazine. He is currently working on
a monograph about film director Michael Winterbottom and his
company, Revolution Films.
› What's wrong with the primacy of theory?, Journal of Visual Art Practice,
7.2, 173-189.
After completing a degree in Design in 1986 at the School of Design
and Craft, University of Gothenburg, Häggström studied Theory of
Science and Research for a year and a half, followed by a Ph.D. in
Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics/Architecture, at Chalmers’
University of Technology, which she completed in 1996. This was
followed by a four-year post-doctoral research post at the School of
Architecture, Lund University. As vice president of the board (1999–
2002), Häggström was involved in establishing research-education at
the Faculty of Fine and Applied Art. In 2001 she began tutoring the
first Ph.D. students in Design, and since 2003 has also taught Theory
Science and Research, and Academic Writing at Masters level.
› The relevance of academic writing in design education: academic writing as
a tool for structuring reasons, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 1.2,
151-160.