Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, PhD
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One good yarn...

Originally from the States, I arrived in Manchester, UK early one dark December morning in 1996 and have made the northwest of England my adopted home. I arrived as a pre-press operator and went on to study various qualifications at Manchester Metropolitan University: a degree in graphic design in 2003, a teaching qualification in 2004, and a Masters in visual culture in 2008.

​From September 2009 to May 2017 I lectured in art and design at the University of Chester in Chester, UK where, in December 2016,  I completed a practice-based PhD entitled The Artist's Book: Making as embodied knowledge of practice and the self. The thesis abstract is available here.

In June 2017 I joined Staffordshire University as the Head of the Department of Art & Design within the School of Creative Arts & Engineering in Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
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 My CV is available on request. Please visit my academic networking page on Academia.edu for links to my visual and written research outputs.
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My medium of choice is paper, my passion is hand bookbinding, my joy is collaboration: with students in the studio, with artists, designers, makers, creatives, and communicators. I hope you might consider collaborating with me on any project you may bring my way.
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Detail of the artist's book Leaving (a work in progress), 2012
  • "Roza, Luisa and Lea, or Nona, Deuma and Morta, the daughters of the night, with spindle, scissors and thread" (Sebald, 1993, The Emigrants, p.237).

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