Dr Vicki Thornton

Biography

Vicki is the Interim Associate Dean of the Media School at London College of Communication (LCC). She was previously Co-Programme Director for Photography and the Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at LCC. Alongside her academic leadership, Vicki maintains an active practice as a visual artist and filmmaker, combining documentary and fiction filmmaking approaches to examine relationships between site, collective memory, performance, and identity.

Vicki holds a PhD in Film Practice from Queen Mary University of London (2025). Her doctoral research, supported by Creative Europe, the British Council in Ukraine, House of Europe and the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, examined the decolonisation of Ukraine’s politics of memory between 2014 and 2022 through an analysis of documentary film and artists’ moving image projects produced during and after the Maidan Revolution.

Vicki worked extensively in Ukraine between 2016 and 2022, directing and producing documentary film projects in Donbas, Kyiv and Lviv (2018–2021); co-directing the interdisciplinary musical film performance Antratsyt: Perseverance Day at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kyiv (2021); exhibiting at Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv (2018); developing work as artist-in-residence at IZOLYATSIA Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv as part of the British Council and the Liverpool Biennial’s SWAP UK/Ukraine artists’ residency scheme (2017–2018); and participating in the British Council Ukraine, Sheffield Doc/Fest and Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival’s DocWorks UA: UK documentary development programme (2016–2017).