Co-InvestigatorDr Nichola Dobson

Dr Nichola Dobson is a Senior Lecturer in Animation at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Founding editor of Animation Studies (2006 - 2011) and Animation Studies 2.0 (2012- present), she has published on animation, television genre and fan fiction, including Norman McLaren: Between the Frames (2018) for Bloomsbury and Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons, Volume 2 (2020) for Scarecrow Press. She is currently working on the Routledge Companion to Animation with Paul Taberham. She was President of the Society for Animation Studies between 2015 and 2019. She is currently the Director of the Animation Research Network Scotland.