Marta Rabikowska, PhD, M.Litt, BA is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Advertising at the University of East London and a documentary film maker. Her film on: Belonging, Consumption and Place received the first Jury Award by the Association of Consumer Research at the University of Milan 2007 and again in San Francisco 2008. She initiated a series of conferences on Eastern European issues at the University of East London (2005, 2007,2008,2009) which brought together scholars from all over the world and laid a foundation to a formal networksponsorded by the British Academy. She is a member of ACR, ESA,MeCCSA, NEEFSUK BASEES and Consumption Research Network. She is a guest editor for the Communist and Post-Communist Studies 42 (2009) and a reviewer for the International Journal of Learning, Social Identities, and ACR Film Festival.

Her research involves visual methods, especially videography, which she applies to gain an embodied and located view of the objects of her study, mainly: consumption, community, migration, city and ethnicity. Her latest publications are on visual methods "Whose street is it anyway" in Qualitative Market Research- An International Journal, forthcoming], ethnicity [Rabikowska, M., & K. Burrell, (2009) 'The Material Worlds of Recent Polish Migrants: Transnationalism, Food, Shops and Home', in Kathy Burrell (ed.) Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union: After 2004,
Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.211-232], pedagogy ["The Ethical Foundation of Critical Pedagogy in Contemporary Academia: (self)-reflection and complicity in the process of teaching", Pedagogy, Culture & Society, Volume 17 Issue 2, 237 available online at

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a911902740 ] and new media in teaching [“The Paradoxical Position of Self-reflection in Teaching and Assessment in
Higher Education: How the Application of Blogging Challenges Learning Habits”, vol.15/7pp1-12. The International Journal of Learning available online: http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1838].

She is interested in creative pedagogy and online teaching and learning. Being committed to practicing new discourses in research writing, particularly inspired by poetry and ecphrasis, she breaks the borders of single disciplines and the definitions of specializations. Her latest research funded by the Leverhulme Charity Trust with Queen Mary University is to result with a documentary film on health practices among Polish, Nigerian and Indian communities in South East London.