Professor Sarah Smith is Head of Research and Professor of Visual Culture at The Glasgow School of Art. Sarah has a BA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (1994), an MA from University College Dublin (1995), and a PhD from University of Glasgow (2007). Her research expertise is in visual culture, with specialisms in artists’ moving image and feminist art. Sarah's research is published in peer reviewed journals such as Screen, Sculpture Journal and Feminist Media Studies. Her book, Cinema as Archive in Artists' Moving Image will be published by Bloomsbury in August 2025. Sarah supervises PhDs in artists moving image, experimental film and feminist art. She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, the Irish Research Council and FCT (Portugal) Arts and Humanities Peer Review College and was a member of REF2021 Panel 32: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory.