Zoe Shipley

Biography	Zoe is a history PhD candidate at Durham University, funded through the Sasakawa Japanese Studies Postgraduate Studentship Programme. She has an integrated master’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies from the University of East Anglia in conjunction with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC). Prior to starting her PhD, she spent two years in Japan as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET).
Research Interests	History of technology Anglo-Japanese relations Victorian travel writing Photography Nineteenth-century transnational networks

Biography

Zoe is a history PhD candidate at Durham University, funded through the Sasakawa Japanese Studies Postgraduate Studentship Programme. She has an integrated master’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies from the University of East Anglia in conjunction with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC). Prior to starting her PhD, she spent two years in Japan as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET).

Research Interests

History of technology
Anglo-Japanese relations
Victorian travel writing
Photography
Nineteenth-century transnational networks