The British Association of the Study of Ukraine

Dr Sara Nesteruk (FRSA), Programme Leader, BA Creative Digital Design, Manchester Metropolitan University

Sara Nesteruk is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Digital Design at SODA, the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her expertise includes graphic design, digital humanities and animation with a particular interest in digital histories from Ukraine in the Holodomor. She directed The Accident (Channel 4, 2007); Recipes for Baking Bread (2021); Why We (Sometimes) Wish Those We Love Might Die (The School of Life, 2017) and Holodomor100 (in development). Awards for her work include Artists’ International Development Award, Arts Council England 2017 and Best Experimental Short Film, Intershort Festival (2022).

Lauren Warner-Treloar, AHRC Techne PhD Candidate, Art and Design History, Kingston University

Lauren Warner-Treloar is an AHRC Techne PhD Candidate in Art and Design History at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University. Her project is titled Experimental Book Arts: Re-interpreting the Fluidities of Ukrainian Identity in Eastern Europe, 1890s-1930s. She is a Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society and co-convened the webinar series From Tallinn to Tbilisi: Art Across Boundaries in the Age of Empire at Kingston University (2023). As Print Collection Research Assistant at Dorich House Museum, she curated the exhibition The Grand Tour, Northward Bound: Sojourns and Souvenirs on Art UK (2025-).