Liz Wells, writer and curator, is Professor Emeritus in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business. She is series editor for Photography, Place, Environment, Routledge Academic Publications, and author of Photography, Curation, Criticism, an anthology (2023) and Land Matters: landscape photography, culture and identity, (2011/2021).

She worked in Higher Education for over 41 years. It follows that she has extensive experience in facilitating student learning at all levels, from undergraduate to doctoral studies, as well as initiating research projects and convening research events, most recently as co-ordinator for the Land/Water and the Visual Arts group in the School of Art, Design and Architecture.

In 2017 she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; in 2021, she was awarded Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education, USA; and in 2022, The Royal Photographic Society, J Dudley Johnston Award for research in photographic culture that focusses on land, landscape, place and environment, as well as on photographic theory and practices.

For full details of past and current activities see www.lizwellswriter-curator.co.uk