sam dodd

I work with land and literature. Landworker at Spitalfields City Farm, Ops Manager at the Poetry Translation Centre, experienced community workerarts administrator, & writing mentor.

I am a writer, with surrealist work appearing in Lumpen: Journal of Working Class Writing; poetry and prose in multiple grassroots zines and journals; and biographical pieces in community anthologies. My Substack series is called The Edgelands.

As a researcher I have received awards for my research and published papers. My areas of interest include: writer development, access to the arts, information access, radical & community histories, public & prison libraries, spatial justice, city farms, counter-mapping, land access, and psychogeography.

From 2014-2024 I managed CityLife: Stories for Change, an intergenerational community life-writing project; and from 2022-2025 I served on the board of Spread the Word writer’s charity

Please navigate to the menu to find out more about each of my areas of work.

My Masters essays are now on Open-Access Humanities Commons

This week, I uploaded eight unpublished essays I wrote for the Library Science programme I am taking at City, University of London, to my Humanities Commons profile page. You can also find them on the Academic page of this site. They span such subjects as: the lasting legacy of Section 28 on public libraries; marginalised library users in smart cities and associated issues of access and inclusion; the effect of lockdown on public library services and individuals who use them; coronavirus-related conspiracy theories on social media; a critical evaluation of the DSM-5 as a tool for psychiatric information organisation an assessment of original research pertaining to oral history search systems; prison libraries and their collections, and; concepts of authorship in the infosphere.

I’m currently working towards a dissertation for this programme, to be submitted in September 2021. Other blog posts I have written reflecting on the Library Science programme of study can be found on this Blog feed.

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