Dr Sarah Jackson

Associate Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Sarah Jackson is a poet and researcher who works at the intersections of writing, art and technology in order to address questions of social and environmental justice. Bringing together creative and critical practice, her current work focuses on geopoetics, displacement and ways of listening. An award-winning poet, BBC New Generation Thinker, NTU VC Outstanding Researcher, AHRC Leadership Fellow and founding director of Critical Poetics (2015 - 2024), Sarah is currently Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor in Arts & Environnment at Northumbria.

Sarah’s publications include Pelt (Bloodaxe 2012; awarded the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry 2013); Tactile Poetics: Touch and Contemporary Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); Unidentifiable Literary Objects, a special issue of parallax (2019), co-edited with Camilla Bostock; Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place (Bloomsbury, 2023); Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves, 2024), co-edited with Daniel Cordle; and Hold to Record: Voice Notes from Refugees, co-edited with Olja Mladjenovič (Palewell, 2025). Telepoetics, co-edited with Philip Leonard and Annabel Williams, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in 2026. In 2021, her film Calling Across Borders, co-created with a group of young refugees, was shortlisted for the Best Research Film in the Research in Film Awards; her interactive sound installation Voice Notes, created with Hardi Kurda, has been exhibited in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nottingham, London and Ghent, and was selected for the PRS New Music Biennial 2025.

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Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
"a mass of earth / speaks": Archipelagic Soundings in Zoë Skoulding's A Marginal Sea, Jackson, S. 17 Jun 2026, In: ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Introduction: Phone Books, Jackson, S., Leonard, P., Williams, A. 1 May 2026, Telepoetics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh University Press
Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory, Jackson, S., Leonard, P., Williams, A. 1 May 2026
The Telephone in Pain: Impossible Confessions in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Jackson, S. 1 May 2026, Telepoetics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh University Press
The world is reset every night meaning your build will always be temporary, O'Sullivan, T., Liston, K., Guy, L., Jackson, S., Millar, L. 13 Jun 2026
Hold to Record: Voice Notes from Refugees , Jackson, S., Mladjenoviç, O. 15 Apr 2025
Tipping Effects, Jackson, S. 6 May 2025, In: Textual Practice
Voice Notes [live audio], Jackson, S., Kurda, H. 29 Aug 2025
Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age, Jackson, S., Cordle, D. 23 Sep 2024
fall, v., Jackson, S. 23 Sep 2024, Bunker, Nottingham, UK, Five Leaves Publications

PGR Supervision

Dawn Knox Interrogating colonialism, climate crisis and mass human migration through decolonial curating. Start Date: 13/03/2026

Further Information

Sarah welcomes proposals from prospective doctoral candidates interested in working in poetry and poetics, art writing, sound studies, and the environmental humanities - particularly in relation to the earth sciences and the politics of extraction.

Qualifications

PhD July 01 2010