Personal statement

Dr Victoria Walters is a Digital Learning Developer developing and promoting 黑料正能量's training and support for academic staff and students, with a particular focus on the tools and platforms through which academic courses are delivered and improving the student experience of the online University.

Tasks include assisting with the development of training and related materials, delivering live online training workshops, creating self-help video tutorials, either answering or triaging individual enquiries and working closely with the University’s Academic Developers and IT Services to holistically improve the way students engage with their academic studies online.

In addition to her role as Digital Learning Developer, Victoria is an academic in the field of Visual Culture and holds a PhD in Visual Culture, a MA in Digital Media, a PGDip in Fine Art and a BA (Hons) in European Studies.

She continues to write on issues in Visual Culture; to date, her research has largely focused on the work of 20th Century German artist Joseph Beuys and she has published widely on the artist, giving conference papers at art institutions in the UK and overseas, often by invitation.

Victoria is a HEA Fellow and has taught students from first year to PhD level, supervising her first PhD student to completion in 2020. She is interested in how teaching in Visual Culture has been – and continues to be - affected by the Covid pandemic, climate emergency and developments in technology.

She has also taught Art and Design at several Universities and has a studio practice which feeds into her research and writing. 

Academic qualifications

  • PhD Visual Culture, University of Ulster
  • MA Digital Media, UWE Bristol
  • PG Dip Fine Art, 黑料正能量
  • BA (Hons) European Studies (French)

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Member of the Visual Culture Research Group
  • Member of the Artist Research Hub Space, Place, Practice
  • Member of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore

Areas of interest

  • Academic IT training - our workshops include Introduction to Ultra for New Staff, Building Content in Ultra, Assessments Grading and Feedback in Ultra, Effective Communication in Ultra, Working with Interactive Whiteboards, Introduction to Academic IT Systems
  • Accessibility, Neurodiversity and Assistive Technology - I am a member of the University's Assistive Technology Group and am currently developing an Accessibility workshop for BSU staff
  • Assistance with the development of courses relating to sustainability and the embedding of sustainability themes within all courses which cross over with my role as a DLD.

Research outputs

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Walters, V (2012) Joseph Beuys and the Celtic wor(l)d: a language of healing. Lit Verlag, Zu虉rich. ISBN 9783643901057

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Lerm Hayes, C-M and Walters, V, eds. (2011) Beuysian legacies in Ireland and beyond: art, culture and politics. Lit Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 9783825807610

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Walters, V (2024) 'Ask the ancestors: reflections on the Avebury Project.' In: Nic Craith, M, Strani, K and Mackie, A, eds. Heimatkunde: explorations of place and belonging. Lit Verlag, Berlin, pp. 144-166. ISBN 9783643914439

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Walters, V (2023) '"But who can picture what the future holds?": Julie Hill's Earth, Water, Night.' In: Hill, J.F, ed. Earth, water, night. self-published, London.

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Walters, V (2020) 'On learning to say longing: drawing on the power of fado.' In: Kockel, U, McDermott, P and Campbell, L, eds. Per scribendum, sumus: ethnopoesis, or: writing heritage. a c猫ilidh in honour of Mair茅ad Nic Craith. Lit Verlag, Zu虉rich, pp. 128-143. ISBN 9783643913579

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Walters, V (2014) 'We-Minotaur-Labyrinth-Root: talking transgression with Beuys and Bataille.' In: Rice, L and Littlefield, D, eds. Transgression: towards an expanded field of architecture. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 230-252. ISBN 9781138818927

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Walters, V (2013) 'Opening up the field: Joseph Beuys鈥� anthropological art.' In: Johler, R, Marchetti, C, Tschofen, B and Weith, C, eds. Kultur_Kultur: Denken. Forschen. Darstellen. Waxmann Verlag, M眉nster, pp. 311-317. ISBN 9783830928478

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Walters, V (2010) 'The artist as shaman: the work of Joseph Beuys and Marcus Coates.' In: Schneider, A and Wright, C, eds. Between art and anthropology: contemporary ethnographic practice. Berg, Oxford, pp. 35-47. ISBN 9781847885005

article

Walters, V (2025) 'Who should wake coyote? The role of 鈥榚xemplary stories鈥� in a time of climate change.' Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 34 (1). pp. 49-62. ISSN 1755-2923

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Walters, V (2023) 'Teaching on a damaged planet: learning lessons from lockdown.' Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 16 (2). pp. 177-198. ISSN 1753-5204

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Walters, V (2019) 'Joseph Beuys and EURASIA.' Tate Papers, 31 (Spring). ISSN 1753-9854

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Walters, V (2010) 'Working 鈥榠n the opposite direction鈥�.' Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 19 (2). pp. 22-43. ISSN 1755-2923

exhibition

Walters, V (2022) Grey weathers (ask the ancestors). In: Ave颅bury Project, The Pound Arts Centre, Corsham, UK, 20 August - 24 September 2022.

exhibition

Walters, V (2021) The pangolin's tale. In: Lost Wax for Lost Species, Founders' Hall, London, UK, 4 - 5 November 2021.

other

Walters, V (2007) Holfter, G., ed., German-speaking exiles in Ireland 1933-1944 [book review]. Irish Economic and Social History, 34. pp. 122-124. ISSN 0332-4893

other

Walters, V (2007) Freeland Thompson, T., Ireland鈥檚 pre-Celtic archaeological and anthropological heritage [book review]. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 10 (1). pp. 58-59. ISSN 1393-8592