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Research Outputs

Research Outputs

Publications, conferences, podcasts, interviews and workshops

 
 

Click the area above to read some publications and interviews on my work!

 

Presentations:

The Courtauld Institute, as closing Keynote speaker https://www.canva.com/design/DAE1z5LcslQ/o7E4x1CsElZVfCRKKCUBaw/view#1 thanks to Anna Leisching

Royal Ulster Academy https://www.canva.com/design/DAE1z5LcslQ/o7E4x1CsElZVfCRKKCUBaw/view#1

  • Recent Conference Papers: 

  • Campbell, E. 2023, “Controlling Bodies with Bureaucracy” is Abortion Post Repeal, Lincoln  

  • Campbell, E. 2023, “Photography as a Feminist Activist Practice in the Movement for Abortion Rights in North/ern Ireland” Peckham 24 - WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM: RESISTING NETWORKS OF CONTROL, London  

  • Campbell, E. 2023, “Art as a Site of Protest and Resistance” Reproductive Justice in a post Covid World Cambridge University,   

  • Campbell, E. and Antosik-Parsons, K., 2023. “Conceptualising Reproductive Citizenship Through Abortion Regulation and Experiences on the Island of Ireland” ARJC Regional Europe Webinar on reproductive justice with the Asia Safe Abortion Partnership  

  • Campbell, E. and Antosik-Parsons, K., 2023. “Conceptualising Reproductive Citizenship and Theoretical Explorations of Experiences on the Island of Ireland” Repro Cit Project, Trinity. After the review, what next for Irish abortion services? 

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  • Forthcoming publications: 

  • Array Collective: Campbell, E, Cargnelli, A, O’Connor, L (2024) “Púcaí, Partition and Placards: socially engaged art and political entropy in Northern Ireland” In: “Northern Ireland Beyond 100" edited by Bell, D and O’Dowd, L, Cork University Press https://www.corkuniversitypress.com/9781782055969/northern-ireland-beyond-100/

  • Bloomer, F and Campbell, E (2024) “"Intersections of law, policy and politics": the long and winding road to abortion decriminalisation” In: “Abortion Politics in Iceland and Ireland”, edited by Field, L and Ómarsdóttir, S. B, Special issue of Irish Political Studies
     

  • Campbell, E (2023) “All we want is, free, safe, legal, local abortion access for everyone who needs it: An examination of the Northern Ireland decriminalisation of abortion campaign” In: "Reproductive Care and Justice” edited by Long, E and Fraser, R. New Area Studies: Special Issue
     

  • Campbell, E and Roberts, D (2024) ““Activism is not a one-lane highway”: The diverse modalities of Alliance for Choice and abortion decriminalisation” In: “Abortion Politics in Iceland and Ireland”, edited by Field, L and Ómarsdóttir, S. B, Special issue of Irish Political Studies

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  • Publications

  • Campbell, E., Mansfield, M. and Bloomer, F. (2022). Religion, abortion and the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland. In: P. Birch, C. Murray and A. McInnes, eds., Crime, Criminal Justice and Religion. Taylor & Francis, pp. 150–164.

  • Campbell, E. (2022). Art, Alliance for Choice and activism. In: F. Bloomer and E. Campbell, eds., Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Allies and Abortion Provision. [online] London: Bloomsbury, pp. 59–69. Available at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decriminalizing-abortion-in-northern-ireland-9781350278912/

  • Campbell, E. (2022). What Sort Of State Were We In? Alliance For Choice Tackle Westminster. In: F. Bloomer and E. Campbell, eds., Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Legislation and Protest. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 161–172.

  • Bloomer, F., & Campbell, E. (2022). Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Allies and Abortion Provision. In Bloomsbury (Vol. 2). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decriminalizing-abortion-in-northern-ireland-9780755642571/

  • Bloomer, F., & Campbell, E. (2022). Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Legislation and Protest. In Bloomsbury (Vol. 1). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decriminalizing-abortion-in-northern-ireland-9780755642571/

  • Pierson, C., Bloomer, F., Allamby, L., Campbell, E., Hughes, B., McLaughlin, L. and Powell, R. (2022). After a CEDAW Optional Protocol Inquiry into abortion law: a conversation with activists for change in Northern Ireland. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 24(2), pp. 312–328. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2022.2053297

  • Campbell, E. (2021). Stanton Healthcare needs to answer for deliberately misleading abortion seekers in Belfast. [online] Shado Magazine. Available at: https://shado-mag.com/all/stanton-healthcare-needs-to-answer-for-deliberately-misleading-abortion-seekers-in-belfast/

  • Campbell, E., & Connor, N. (2021). Alliance for Choice submission: Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill. In www.niassembly.gov.uk. Northern Ireland Assembly Commission. http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/committee-blocks/health/2017---2022/alliance-for-choice.pdf

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  • Campbell, E., Ndolo, P., Kivuti, L., Mwai, K., Chiluba, B., Lukama, R., & Bloomer, F. (2021). Radical Abortion Care in a Pandemic Briefing Report 1, April 2021 Global Policy Review of Abortion in the time of the Covid-19 Pandemic. https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/90894362/Radical_Abortion_Care_in_Covid_19_Global_Policy_Review.pdf

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  • Chiluba, B., Lukama, R., Ndolo, P., Kivuti, L., Mwai, K., Campbell, E., & Bloomer, F. (2021). Radical Abortion Care in a Pandemic Briefing Report 3, August 2021 Legislative and Policy Analysis and Related Publications within the Zambian context. Ulster University. https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/91973595/Zambia_Radical_Abortion_Care_in_Covid_19_Briefing_Report_.pdf

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  • Campbell, E., Connor, N., Heaney, S., & Bloomer, F. (2021). Training abortion doulas in Northern Ireland: lessons from a COVID-19 context. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 47(17), bmjsrh-2021-201098. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2021-201098

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  • Campbell, E. (2021, March 24). Free, safe, legal, local. Https://Www.redpepper.org.uk/; Red Pepper. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/alliance-for-change/

  • Campbell, E. (2019, February 21). Now for NI: Fighting for abortion rights in the North (E. Clancy, Ed.). Irish Broad Left. https://irishbroadleft.com/2019/02/21/now-for-ni-fighting-for-abortion-rights-in-the-north/

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  • Campbell, E. (2018). My Experience of the Together for Yes (TFY) Campaign < SRHM. [online] SRHM. Available at: https://www.srhm.org/news/my-experience-of-the-together-for-yes-tfy-campaign/

  • Campbell, E. (2018, May 28). It’s only the North’s leaders who say “no” to abortion rights. Www.thetimes.co.uk. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-s-only-the-north-s-leaders-who-say-no-to-abortion-rights-m7p0966h9

  • Campbell, E., & Clancy, S. (2018). From Grassroots to Government: Engagement Strategies in Abortion Access Activism in Ireland. In Crossing troubled waters: Abortion in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Prince Edward Island (pp. 132–173). Island Studies Press.

  • Campbell, E. 2017 “When they put their hands out like scales.” In: Female lines: new writing by women from Northern Ireland edited by Linda Anderson and Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado, Dublin, New Island Books, pp.167-171

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  • Campbell, E. (2017). Alliance for Choice: written evidence to the UK All-party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health (APPG) on abortion in Northern Ireland. [online] https://www.appg-pdrh.uk/abortion-report, Westminster: UK Parliament, pp.1–14. Available at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc18cebdf3c7b576d0caacf/t/5ee11942736f5e2ef8eb694b/1591810373028/Alliance+for+Choice+written+evidence.pdf

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  • Campbell, E. (2016). 'What is feminist art practice and how does it form part of a multidisciplinary approach to research. In “Mind the Gap: Working papers on Practice-based Research in the Creative Arts” . Dublin Distillers Press, National College of Art and Design.

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  • Campbell, E. (2016). Think women seeking abortion in Northern Ireland have other options? Here’s the reality | Emma Campbell. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/05/abortion-northern-ireland-sentencing

  • Campbell, E. (2014a). Source Photographic Review - Back Issue Archive - Issue 79 Summer 2014 Sexism on Show: Has gender equality in photography moved on from the 1970s? - Www.source.ie. https://www.source.ie/archive/issue79/is79feature_Emma_Campbell_08_43_39_06-07-21.php

  • Exhibitions
    Feb-Sep 2023 “Divided Selves” Group Show curated by Hammad Nasar, Herbert Gallery, Coventry
    Aug 2023 “Up the Ass, A tribute” The Night Draws Near, Ulster Museum
    Jan-Sept 2023 The Druithaib’s Ball Array Collective Turner Prize, Ulster Museum
    Aug-Oct 2022 The Druithaib’s Ball Array Collective Turner Prize, Galway Arts Centre Jul 22 When they put their hands out like scales, PhotoIreland 2022 
    June 2022 Protest! Photography, Activism and Social Change in Ireland, group exhibition [with Array Collective], Photo Museum Ireland

  • Jun 2022 “Divine it Yourself” Harkin Summit Exhibition w/ University of Atypical
    May 2022 Feminist Constitutions short film commission NI Screen & University of Birmingham

  • May 2022 A Bigger Picture - Queer/Feminist Golden Thread Gallery 

  • Mar 2022 “Collage: A Political Act”, Talk at Ulster Museum 

  • Mar 2022 Divine it Yourself Commissioned work 2021, University of Atypical

  • Mar 2022 “Ladies Should visit”, acquired by Ulster Museum Collage: A Political Act

  • Dec 2021 An Appropriate Hobby, group show, Mayor’s Parlour, curated by J Morrow

  • Sep 2021 Naomi Portrait, Breast Cancer Awareness Month - with the MAC Belfast

  • Sep 2021 The Druithaib’s Ball’, Array Collective Turner Prize, The Herbert Coventry

  • Mar 2021 NOW100 The Mac Belfast Commission for 100 years of NI 

  • Aug 2020 Pride in our Hearts Array Collective Intervention 

  • May 2020 Array AN video for Artists Make Change 

  • Apr 2020 This Cunt Bites Back for “She Sells Sanctuary” Women’s refuge project

  • Dec 2019 Symposium, Array Collective Collaborate! Jerwood Arts 

  • Oct 2019 An Appropriate Hobby Street intervention 

  • Oct 2019 As others see us Jerwood Collaborate! Array Collective 

  • Aug 2019 As Others See Us, Pride parade performance, Array Collective

  • Mar 2019 International Women’s Day - Array Collective Performance 

  • Jan 2019 Reimagining Global Abortion Politics Exhibition, Ulster University

  • Dec 2018 209 Women Group Show, Palace of Westminster, London 

  • Oct 2018 Demolition is not a Means Array Collective intervention 

  • Mar 2018 An Appropriate Hobby, Lunasa, Belfast 

  • Feb 2018 Those Actual Words Array Collective group show, Framewerk, Belfast

  • Jan 2018 My Body My Life joint exhibition, Foyles London 

  • Dec 2017 My Body My Life joint exhibition, Belfast 

  • Dec 2016 Street Art Bites Back Framewerk, Belfast 

  • Oct 2016 Someone you Love Copper House Gallery, Dublin 

  • Oct 2016 Suitable Hobby Film Base, Dublin 

  • Sep 2016 This C*nt Bites Back, Street Art, Belfast 

  • June 2016 Labour of Love with Siobhan Clancy and Melissa Madera, Incube, Array Collective

  • Mar 2016 When they put their hands out like scales, Feminist Judging Project, Framewerk

  • Mar 2016 A Suitable Hobby, Bangkok INROADS 

  • Jun 2016 Two for Many, Pollen Studios, Belfast 

  • Oct 2015 Two for Many, Trans Art Cavan, Array Collective 

  • Oct 2015 A Suitable Hobby INCUBE Solo show 

  • Summer 2015 Array Studios InCube, PHD residency 

  • June 2015 Silt and Stones Black Box Belfast 

  • Dec 2014 Pack up your troubles Panrummet Gallery Sweden 

  • Dec 2014 collaboration with Nicole Werniger Platform Belfast 

  • Sep 2014 When they put their hands out like scales solo show Platform
    Mar 2014 residency at OKK Gallery Berlin with solo show 

  • Jul 2014 residency, Belfast Exposed with Women on Waves 

  • Mar 2013 When they put their hands out like scales, Solo show, Copper House, Gallery, Dublin


  • Work featured in; Podcasts, papers & interviews 

  • March 22 Ulster University, University of Canberra (AUS) and British Council Difficult Conversation Symposium
    March 22 - Talk Art - Season 12 episode 12 Array Collective https://shows.acast.com/talkart/episodes/array-collective
    Feb 22 The Blindboy Podcast - to be released 
    Feb 22 Feb 2022 - BBC Sounds, Red Lines The art of politics and the politics of art, with Mark Carruthers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0blrw4x
    Jan 22 out with you f*cking wh*res! Courtauld Institute Keynote, available to watch online
    Nov 21 Women Shaping the World Podcast - Institut Francais. Episode 8 Jul 21 - Visual Artists Ireland , Episode 5, Podcast 
    Jun 19 ‘Thanks Dad' , BBC Radio 4 Listening Project Clodagh Lavelle & Emma Campbell May 18 Reimagining global abortion politics, by F Bloomer, C Pierson and S Estrada Claudio 
    Apr 18 Speaking of silence, speaking of art, abortion and Ireland. Irish Studies Review, 27(1), pp.73–93.S Chan 
    Chan, S. (2018) Anxiously Present: The Northern Irish Landscape in Recent Photographic Work by Emma Campbell and Mary McIntyre. Ulster University

  • Press – Highlights with full list here

  • 2020 - Legal Abortion Begins in Northern Ireland.
    2019 - As Northern Ireland decriminalises abortion, let’s celebrate the women who got us here.

  • 2018 – It’s only the North’s leaders who say “no” to abortion rights
    2018 – Sisterhood and screenshots. The role of memes in #repealthe8th
    2018 – Fertile Ground: reframing the abortion experience in art and activism, Hero Magazine
    2018 – Shine Theory In Zagreb: Pizza For Four with Artists Emma Campbell and Siobhán Clancy, The RJ Happy Hour Podcast
    2018 – How to Capture the 8th Amendment – College Tribune, March
    2017 – Meet the Irish Photographer Documenting Women in Ireland Who Must Travel Abroad for Safe Abortion
    2017 – My Body My Life Aims to Challenge Abortion Stigma
    2016 – Someone you love at Copper house
    2016 –”Think women seeking abortion in Northern Ireland have other options? Here’s the reality” Guardian, Opinion April
    2015- Reclaim the Agenda, NVTV
    2013 - The Works, RTE
    2013 - Prism
    2013 - The Irish Times
    2012 - Huffington Post
    2012 – Source Magazine Graduate Selection by Brian Dillon

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  • Array Collective in selected media

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  • Higgins, C (Dec 2021) The 11-strong Array collective on winning the Turner prize: ‘We’ll have to have a meeting about this!’ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/02/array-collective-winning-turner-prize-belfast-bar-drinking-den

  • Sillito, D (Dec 2021) Turner Prize 2021: Irish pub installation wins award BBC News Online https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59490291 

  • Hickey, C., Morrow, J.,(Dec 2021) Does the Turner Prize Deserve Better Art? No, But Array Collective Deserves Better Critics The Elephant 

  • Pacella, M (2021) Array Collective Shine at this Year’s Edition of the Turner Prize Flash Art https://flash---art.com/2021/12/array-collective/ 

  • Leebody, c. (2021) Turner Prize winners Array Collective say work ‘homage’ to Belfast but slam lack of Stormont ‘delivery Belfast Telegraph https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/turner-prize-winners-array-collective-say-work-homage-to-belfast-but-slam-lack-of-stormont-delivery-41115889.html 

  • Lloyd-Smith, H (2021)Array Collective wins the Turner Prize 2021 Wallpaper Magazine https://www.wallpaper.com/art/turner-prize-2021-winner-array-collective 

  • Jerwood Arts (2021) Array Collective wins the Turner Prize 2021 Jerwood Arts Website https://jerwoodarts.org/2021/12/02/array-collective-win-the-turner-prize-2021/ 

  • The White Pube | Turner Prize 2021, Bumper Pack". the-white-pube. Retrieved 2022-01-03.

  • Gorny, L. (2021) Winner Array Collective brings political charge to Turner Prize conversation https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/array-collective-turner-prize-art-081221 

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  • Lectures, workshops and conferences: 

  • Feb-March 2023 Artichoke UK, workshops at the MAC, Belfast

  • October 2022 - Ulster University MFA guest lecture

  • June 2022 - Mactivate, 6 month socially engaged practice writing, zine, banner and postcard project with Alliance for Choice and selected artists

  • May 2022 - Artist and Activist invitation - Liberalizing Abortion Rights amidst Global Backlash: Cases from Iceland and Ireland, Iceland Symposium on Abortion

  • March 2022 - Amay-Zine with Clodagh Lavelle - Second Collective Zines Workshop for Imagine Festival - for IMagine Festival

  • March 2022 - Collage: A Political Act (2022) Talk at Ulster Museum

  • March 2022 - British Council in Ireland, St Patrick’s Festival & IMMA - Connections, Belongings, Art & Activism Array Collective in Conversation with Annie Fletcher

  • March 2022 - Liberation through creation, a queer introduction to zine making- Inroads Zines Workshop -  with Saint @WeChangeA Jamaica

  • February 2022 - Poetry Translation Centre, Polylingual poets guest lecture, London

  • February 2022 - Ulster University - Guest Lecture Photography Department, artist practice
    January 2022 - Lecture for MA Art and Social Practice, Centre for Island Creativity, Shetland College UHI

  • January 2022 - Presentation to Stormont Assembly, All Party Group on the Arts on artist-led spaces and precarity

  • March 2021 - NOW100 (2021-2022) The Mac Belfast Commission of short written and audio piece for 100 years of NI

  • November 2021 - Ulster University - Guest Lecture 3rd year photography students - working as a collective

  • November 2021 - Alliance for Choice & Array Collective. Joint day of talks on art and abortion, Herbert Gallery Coventry

  • October 2021 University of Hertfordshire, visiting guest lecture

  • December 2021 University of Birmingham Law School, guest lecture at Herbert Gallery
    August 2020 – “Pride in our Hearts” Array Studios Street Intervention
    June 2020 – “Making Change Through Institutions and Archives” Artists Make Change workshop, Array Studios and ANartists Info
    May 2020 - https://youtu.be/txX9NwCJJUQ Array video essay as 1 of 5 case studies for “Artists Make Change”
    May 2020 – ”Never Rarely Sometimes Always” roundtable with the directors – Birds Eye View ‘Reclaim the Frame”
    April 2020 CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING Sailortown Recipe Book, submission
    April 2020 – ‘This Cunt Bites Back’ Print for “She Sells Sanctuary” Women’s refuge project
    December 2019 – 'If you don't play the game, don't make the rules' symposium presented by Array as part of the exhibition Collaborate!
    July 2019 – Thinking the Future for Radical Social Change: Dialogues on Theory and Practice, Guest Panellist, Household Belfast & The MAC Belfast
    March 2019 – Interview with Northern Narratives’ Tracy Marshall
    January 2019 – “Reimagining Global Abortion Politics” Book Launch and Solo Exhibition, UNIQUE, Ulster University
    May 2018 – PhotoIreland panel member for event on photography and abortion

  • March 2018 - INROADS Bangkok panel on using narrative forms to break stigma

  • December 2018 – My Body My Life talk

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  • MATERNITY LEAVE

  • March 2017 – WANDA panel on art and activism in women’s short filmmaking in Ireland

  • December 2016 – Equality Commission conference on maternity rights, Titanic, Belfast

  • November 2016 – GMB Women’s conference on behalf of Alliance for Choice

  • November 2016 – Amnesty conference Time for Change, abortion rights NI

  • June 2016 – Reproductive Justice Conference – University of Ulster, Belfast two papers, one performance and facilitation

  • April 2016 – NICICTU Women’s Conference, Derry. Proposing support of Trust Women Campaign for Alliance for Choice. Proposal accepted.

  • March 2016 – INROADS Abortion Stigma Busting Gathering, Bangkok. Facilitation and presentation of works

  • June 2015 – paper accepted for Feminism and the Body in Performance in Dublin’s MART

  • June 2015 – Belfast Photo Fringe – exhibition of works in all-woman group show: Silt and Stones

  • May 2015 – Remote Photo Festival – a feminist lens

  • April 2015 NCAD – Mind the Gap – Dublin - delivered paper entitled “What is feminist activist art practice and how does it form part of a multi-disciplinary approach to research?”

  • March 2015 Amnesty – London School of Economics – gathering of academics and activists on subject of working together to make change

  • March 2015 RGS Annual Conference – Poster Submitted, won 1st prize in Art & Design

  • February 2015 - Amnesty publication of survey and report on abortion access in Northern Ireland – MAC Belfast

  • February 2015 NUSUSI Women’s conference Derry

  • Feminist Judgments Project – Film Screening of When they put their hands out like scales and talk on using the language of the media to change public discourse.

  • Feminist Judgments Project – talk on media as activism/smoke bomb

  • January 2015 -Amnesty  - Clifton House Belfast talk and workshop