Dr Aislinn White is Lecturer in Art and Creative Practice in the Division of Arts and Media. Her research focuses on the curatorial as a fundamentally dialogical and potentially disruptive practice. Traversing the fields of art and urbanism, her work explores strategies for art that is entangled in the changing city, and the construction of power and counter-power in co-authoring and co-producing narratives.  As part of her practice research she has led projects with marginalised communities to develop ways to understand and challenge complex socio-spatial structures through contemporary curatorial practice. This has manifest in the past as public exhibitions, performances and events, short films, art publications, installations and audio-works. She is currently working on a project exploring community archives and approaches to socially engaged curating in Glasgow.

Aislinn has delivered projects and exhibitions with various organisations including Documenta, Wellcome Trust, Tate Modern, Venice Biennale and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.  She has held curatorial posts in the V&A Museum, the Architecture Foundation, the Drawing Room and CCA Derry-Londonderry.

She has a PhD from Belfast School of Art (Ulster University), MA from National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and BA(Hons) from Falmouth College of Art.

Teaching and researching across the fields of contemporary art practice and theory, curatorial practice, arts research methods, art policy and art pedagogies, Aislinn held previous posts at University of the Arts, London, Central Saint Martins and London College of Communication,  and Richmond University. She was Research Associate in Curating Film and Video Art at Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media, University of Westminster.

Aislinn has also contributed to architecture and urban studies postgraduate programmes at London Metropolitan University and London School of Economics.