Ifor Duncan is Postdoctoral Researcher on the EcoViolence project at Utrecht University. His inter-disciplinary research and art-practice focuses on political violence in the contexts of devastated river systems and dispossessed communities. These include the weaponisation of rivers as borders (Evros/Meriç/Maritsa, Greece and Turkey), mega-dam projects (Hidroituango on the Cauca, Colombia) and rivers as mediums and dynamic archives of genocide (Wisła, Poland). He encounters these concerns through visual cultures, cultural memory, fieldwork and an artist audio-visual practice that involves submerged methods.

Ifor has a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London (2014-2019) where he was also Lecturer (2022-2024). Ifor was postdoctoral fellow at the New Institute Centre for the Environmental Humanities (NICHE), Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice (2020-22), and has taught in the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art.