Beverley Carruthers

Biography

Beverley Carruthers is an award-winning senior lecturer working on the BA (Hons) Photography programme at London College of Communication, for which she was Course Leader for many years. Celebrating multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches to research and teaching as productive and insightful in her teaching and research methodologies. Her pedagogic practices have been acknowledged through the presentation of an award for her contribution to photography in higher education by the Royal Photographic Society in 2019 and the award of a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Authority in 2020.

Graduating from the Royal College of Art, she is an artist and educator, researching transitional moments and how they are navigated through ritual. The work often considers these moments from an experiential and non-clinical position, allowing time and significance for first-hand experience. It pushes against perceived wisdom and breaking taboos to raise significance to subjects unheard, misunderstood or seen as unnecessary to discuss.

Beverley is a member of LCC's Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary research hub – and a co- founder of multiple research projects.