Katrina Whitehead

Dr Katrina Whitehead is a University Lecturer specialising in fashion communication, image-making and visual culture. Her practice-based research examines how photography, moving image and creative direction shape the production and communication of fashion narratives across editorial, advertising and digital contexts. Through this work, she explores how visual media constructs meaning around identity, gender and representation within contemporary fashion culture.

Dr Whitehead completed her PhD in Practice at the University of Huddersfield (2026). Her doctoral research, ‘Murder by the (Photobook): Picture-Perfect Victims and the Fetishisation of Femicide through Arts Practice’, examined the representation and fetishisation of women within true crime visual culture. Through an interdisciplinary exhibition combining bookmaking, photography, dress and archival materials, the project developed new methods for reconstructing historical narratives.