Dr Sara Nesteruk is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Digital Design at SODA, the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a British Ukrainian academic whose expertise includes graphic design, data visualisation and animation, with a research focus on Ukrainian histories and the Holodomor. Sara received her PhD in Art and Design from Leeds Beckett University in 2022, an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art London in 2003 and a BA(Hons) in Graphic Arts and Design from Leeds Metropolitan University 2001. Publications include a contribution to a forthcoming volume ‘The Holodomor in Global Perspective’ edited by Daria Mattingly and John Vsetecka (ibidem Press, forthcoming 2025). 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 90 Years from Holodomor (2023, feature film in production). Her research and visual essays have appeared in academic design journals including Cubic and Message. Awards for her work include Artists’ International Development Award, Arts Council England 2017 and Best Experimental Short Film, Intershort Festival (2022). Sara is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts exploring the social impact of art and a member of the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College. Her professional career includes design positions at BBC Broadcast and BBC Sport, including work on the London Olympic games coverage in 2012.