Summary of Staff Research Interests

Beresford, Sarah
Sarah Beresford undertakes theoretical research within the areas of Family, Gender and Sexuality and the law using feminist and queer theory methodologies. Her work explores notions of identity construction by and through legal discourse. Sarah is curently working on developing new research on the area of Law and Religion.

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Camino, Mercedes
Cross-cultural voyages of exploration, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Culture, Early Modern Colonialism, History of Cartography, the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath, Spanish and European Film and Media Studies

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Chatterjee, Bela Bonita
Dr Chatterjee's work concentrates on interrogating transdisciplinary aspects of cyberlaw from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on gender, sexuality and sexual expression/pornography. Her recent research has been on recent legal interpretations of consensual sadomasochism in the sphere of employment law and human rights. If you cannot locate any of her publications please contact her on b.chatterjee@lancaster.ac.uk

Coleman, Rebecca
My research interests are in bodies and embodiment; visual culture and the image; social, cultural and feminist theory; affect; temporality and the future; inventive and visual methodologies.

Cuban, Sondra
My research focus is on gender, women, migration, care, and workplace education and learning. I draw on theories surrounding the feminisation of migration, the exploration of spatial and materialist theories, social practice and critical theories of literacies, and postcolonial discourse theories.

Ferreday, Debra
My research interests are in gender, embodiment, cultural theory and technology. At present I am particularly engaged with the problematic relationship between feminism and feminine identities and cultural practices.

Fiddler, Allyson
Austrian Culture (literature, film, and politics) is one my primary research areas. My research work ranges widely over contemporary German-language culture, however, and I have published on contemporary novelists, dramatists and, more laterally, on film-makers. I am very interested in the Nobel-prize-winning author, Elfriede Jelinek, and have published numerous articles about her work.

Firth, Georgina
The aims of my research to date have been to create bridges between academia and practice and to attempt to engage the legal community as a whole in a consideration of effective legal reform of the law on rape. I feel that I am in a unique position to do this as I have considerable experience of the operation of the law in practice. I also try to introduce feminist perspectives into mainstream legal debate. In general, I am researching criminal justice issues, including defences and consent, and the application of human rights law to life sentence prisoners and Foreign National Prisoners. My research focuses on gender issues in Criminal and Immigration law such as fairness to women defendants in relation to criminal defences, the inclusion of women in Refugee Convention definitions, sexual history evidence, and the new approach to issues such as consent in sexual offences. I am planning a research project on victim experiences in rape trials, drawing on research about memory and the ability to recount such experiences. I have also written about children in immigration detention and have participated in workshops on this area.

Fortier, Anne-Marie
My research interests are situated within the areas of critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, postcolonialism, multiculturalism and nation formation, critical migration and diaspora studies, the cultural politics of emotions.

Hagopian, Patrick
His research interests are in American memory: the representation of the past in museums and public monuments, popular expressions of the past in oral histories, and the intersection between individual memory and communal representations of the past.

Hamilton, Mary
My work explores communication and interaction in the everyday textually-mediated social world and how people negotiate changes in the resources and technologies available to them. My research approach involves close analysis of how texts, both print and digital, are used within social encounters and how texts circulate within institutional settings. I am interested in informal learning across the lifespan; how older people negotiate changing literacies and technologies making choices among communicative resources (face to face print and digital); the effects of digital literacies on social isolation and connectivity; how communicative and learning resources are built across the life span and can aid adaptability and strong social networks. In recent years I have become increasingly involved with historical and interpretative policy analysis exploring how international influences reach into local practice and the implications of this for tutor and student agency in adult literacy education.

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Harris, Geraldine (Gerry)
The aesthetics and politics of identity in theatre, performance and television drama. Feminist theatre and performance. Gender and the techniques and processes of devising. Writing for performance

Hinds, Hilary
early Quakerism; twentieth-century women's writing and feminist theory

Houghton, Ann-Marie
Research interests are closely linked to the work of REAP (Researching Equity, Access and Participation) and university role as Development Officer for Widening Participation in the Vice Chancellor's Office. Major themes at present include: Educational Equality and Social Exclusion; Widening participation policy and practice; Family Learning; Disability and transition to HE and Employment; Teaching and learning policy and practice; Educational Guidance

Jackson, Carolyn
Carolyn's research is guided by an overarching interest in gender issues in education, with particular interests in single-sex and mixed-sex learning environments, fears of failure, and constructions and performances of 'laddish' masculinities and femininities. Between 2003-2005 she undertook a project exploring boys' and girls' motives for 'laddish' behaviours. A book from this project - 'Lads' and 'Ladettes' in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure - was published in 2006 by Open University Press. Also conducts research on the PhD examination process in Britain.

May-Chahal, Corinne
Gambling, Health and Social Impact Assessment, Child and Family Welfare, Interpersonal Violence, Public Health approaches to Social Problems, Social Responsibility

McNeil, Maureen
My main research interest is in cultural studies of science and technology, particularly as it intersects with feminist studies. A main strand of this has focused on reproduction, with investigations of the politics, theories, and narratives of reproduction. I have pursued various projects around science, technology and popular culture. Recent explorations have included: memoirs pertaining to genomics and popular biographies of scientists.

Measham, Fiona
Fiona Measham is an internationally renowned researcher with 20 years' experience in the field of drug and alcohol studies, gender, licensed leisure and the night time economy.

Moore, Karenza
Research interests include (poly)drug use, specifically in clubbing contexts. Young people and UK/global electronic dance music club cultures. Gender and drug use. Ketamine use. GHB/GBL use. Harm reduction. Pleasure and drug use. Policing of pleasure, and cultures of control in contemporary societies. The night-time economy (NTE). 'War on Drugs', prohibition policies, and alternatives. ABC classification system. Deterrence. Displacement. Cybercrime. Crime and new technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones. The New Interaction Order (NIO) in public/semi-public spaces

Moore, Lindsey
Postcolonial, particularly Arab, South Asian and British-Asian literatures; Postcolonial women's writing; Arab women's literature and visual media in English, French and translation; Representations of Arab Muslim women in literature and film; Modernist expatriate writers.

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Morgan, Hannah
My research interests lie predominantly in the field of disability studies and include the self-organisation and citizenship of disabled people; service provision for adult service users; disability policy at a UK and European level; and mobility and social capital in relation to (disabled) careers.

Mort, Maggie
Sociology of science, technology and medicine: technological change, telemedicine and telecare, innovation in health science and technology, health policy and politics, disaster and recovery studies. I work largely with ethnographic and participative methodologies.

Naguib, Shuruq
Qur'anic Hermeneutics, contemporary women interpreters of the Qur'an; traditional and contemporary Muslim thought and practice, Muslim jurisprudence and practise of ritual.

Pearce, Lynne
feminist literary and cultural theory; 'the politics of reading'; feminist re-scriptings of romance; national / regional literature(s) and identities within the UK

Peniston-Bird, Corinna
A cultural and oral historian, Corinna Peniston-Bird's main academic interests lie in gender identities in Britain, and national identities in Central Europe, specifically Austria, with a particular focus on the first half of the twentieth century.

Roberts, Celia
Feminist science studies and feminist theory, theories of the body and biology, genetics and reproductive technologies, puberty, aging and new technologies of care.

Singleton, Vicky
Materiality, practices, policy, feminist theory, science and technology, health, farming, craft work, gender constitution and enactment, standardization and generalisation, science and technology studies, (after) actor-network theory.

Stone, Alison
Feminist debates around essentialism, sex and gender, sexual difference (including de Beauvoir, Butler, Irigaray); German idealism and romanticism, including Hegel; Marxism and the Frankfurt School; philosophy of nature

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Strid, Sofia
My research interests are both theoretical and policy oriented and include research on comparative gender equality and intersectionality in the EU27; gender based violence and intersectionalised violence against women; feminist civil society and the organisation and institutionalisation of women's interests by women and by political authorities; the EU as a polity and a political authority; intersectionality in equality policies; and the equality architecture/equality machinery.

Suchman, Lucy
Ethnographies of sites of technology production and use; critical innovation studies; rethinking social/material relations based in anthropology, feminist theory and science and technology studies.

Sunderland, Jane
I am interested in language, gender and discourse (including research methodologies), and in issues of gender in relation to language education. Recently, I have been exploring issues of gender and language in African contexts (in relation to my National Teaching Fellowship (2007)), and have (2010) completed a monograph called 'Language, Gender and Children's Fiction' (for Continuum). I am also interested in cross-cultural understandings of 'Language, gender and the body', in the multimodal characterisation in picturebooks featuring families with gay parents, in boys' literacies in relation to the Harry Potter series, and, rather differently, stage adaptations which are recontextualisations of novels.

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Thakkar, Amit
I research Spanish and Latin American film and literature. My current interest is 'cine de choque', a term I have used for films by Spanish-speaking film directors in which car crashes feature. The first step is an article on the Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's 'Abre los ojos', which I have just completed. I also research the relationship between masculinities and violence in Latin American film. I have a published article on Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 'Memorias del subdesarrollo' and I am now working on Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'Amores perros'. I have also published two articles on the fiction of the Mexican author Juan Rulfo, one on the figure of the teacher in the short story 'Luvina' and the other on the priest in the novel 'Pedro Páramo'. I have just completed a book on irony, revolution and postcolonialism in Rulfo's work (currently under review).

Thomas, Carol
Professor Carol Thomas has research interests in two main areas at present: (i) the sociology of disability in Disability Studies (ii) the sociology of cancer experiences and end of life care.

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Twine, Richard
The sociology of human/animal relations and animal ethics, understandings of embodiment in the new genetics, sociological approaches to bioethics, environmental ethics/sociology, feminist theory and the sociology of the body. Sociological theory 'beyond dualism'.

Tyler, Imogen
Political Subjectivities, Social Identities, Social Class, Borders and Immigration, the Maternal, Publics and Counter Publics, Social Media, Revolt, Protest and Activism, Political Aesthetics, Psycho-Social theory.

Warin, Jo
Socio-emotional aspects of children's learning and development especially the formation of identity. Gender issues in education. Home-school relationships. Early years education and care.

Wise, Sue
Equality, diversity & social justice; feminist theory; LGBT issues in social policy; new social movements; death & dying

Wodak, Ruth
My current research focuses on "identity politics and multilingualism" (mainly in the European Union), "multimodality and media studies", "qualitative methods of text and discourse analysis", "organizational discourses", and "discrimination, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia". I am currently involved in a 6th framework integrated EU project (on European Language Policies). My work is situated in (Critical) Discourse Studies and oriented towards trans-/interdisciplinarity. Recent publications include 'Discourse and Discrimination (2001, with Martin Reisigl), 'Critical Discourse Analysis. Theory and Interdisciplinarity' (2007, with Gilbert Weiss), 'NATO, Neutrality, and National Identity' (2003, with Andras Kovacs), 'The Construction of History. Remembering the Wehrmacht's War of Annihilation' (2008, with Hannes Heer, Walter Manoschek, Alexander Pollak), 'New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis'(2007, with Paul Chilton), 'The Politics of Exclusion' (2009, with Michal Krzyzanowski), 'The SAGE Hanbook of Sociolinguistics' (2010, with Barbara Johnstone, Paul Kerswill), and 'The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual' (2009, revised paperback edition 2011).

Woodhead, Linda
Sociology of Religion, Religion and Emotion, Religion and Gender, Christianity, Alternative Spiritualities, Secularisation, Religion in Public Life, Religion and values.