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Julie Watkins is an artist, researcher and educator. She is Senior Lecturer in Animation at the University of Greenwich, teaches across all three cohorts and is Module Leader of Visual Effects and Storytelling for Animation.
Julie worked for 20 years as creative lead in prestigious post-production facilities in London and New York and holds a PhD in Creative Professions and Digital Arts (University of Greenwich). Her research expands on the concept of animation to include embodied visceral affect and a broader visual arts context underpinning the development of animation as installation. Her work has been internationally published and exhibited. It is allied to wellbeing and contributes to new understandings in how animation is perceived, created and displayed. Dr. Julie Watkins is associate editor for BST and part of the ECR research network.