# Dr Simon Constantine

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Job title
:   Teaching Fellow (Arts and Humanities), Lifelong Learning Centre

## Contact

[Email Dr Simon Constantine: g.s.constantine@leeds.ac.uk](mailto:g.s.constantine@leeds.ac.uk)

## My role

I am a Teaching Fellow in the Lifelong Learning Centre (LLC) and teach across our Arts and Humanities Foundation Year and Professional Studies programmes. In these capacities I also support students as an academic personal tutor and assist with programme delivery.

## Professional experience

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and joined the LLC in 2024. I received my PhD in History of Art, which explored the role played by large-scale documentary projects in contemporary art, from the University of Leeds in 2015.

I also have an MA and BA in History of Art from the University of Leeds and previously studied Fine Art at Chesterfield College.

## Research interests

My research focuses on the histories of street and documentary photography and has been published in The Oxford Art Journal, parallax and The Burlington Magazine, among others.

I am currently working on an edited collection exploring the legacies of critical realism in contemporary art, which will be published by Brill in 2026, and a project exploring the relationship between the University of Aberdeen’s photographic collections and the sea funded by the Paul Mellon Centre.

I also edit the journal Philosophy of Photography.