Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at Lancaster University

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Dr Sarah Beresford
Sarah Beresford's research interests focus upon Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law and Society; Religion and Law. ... Read more»
Dr Brian Black
I received my MA and PhD in the Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. I teach courses on Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as theory and methods in Religious Studies. I am author of the book The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, ... Read more»
Professor Mercedes Camino
Cross-cultural voyages of exploration, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Literature and Culture (especially women writers), Early Modern Colonialism, History of Cartography, Spanish and European Film and Media Studies, Memory Studies. ... Read more»
Dr Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Dr Chatterjee's work concentrates on interrogating transdisciplinary aspects of cyberlaw, if possible from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on gender, sexuality and sexual expression/pornography. She is also interested in identity and the law as broadly conceived. Her recent research... Read more»
Dr Rebecca Coleman
My research so far has focused on empirical and theoretical explorations of the relations between bodies and images. I have recently finished a book, Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures, that tracks a socio-cultural and bodily imperative for transformation across a range of different scree... Read more»
Dr Anne Cronin
Current research URBAN SPACE AND FRIENDSHIP. I'm currently carrying out a British Academy funded a project that explores the connections between urbanism and friendship with a focus on work and workplace. I'm aiming to explore friendships as forms of social ties that are not captured by (aca... Read more»
Dr Sondra Cuban
My current research projects are: an ESRC study, called, Home/Work: the roles of education, learning, and literacies in the networks and mobilities of migrant carers. It focuses on the gendered geographies of skilled migration at the intersections of labour, care, and rurality. The other project is ... Read more»
Dr Debra Ferreday
I am a feminist cultural theorist with strong research interests in gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory and embodiment. My research engages with embodied and social aspects of new media and digital cultures, celebrity culture, fashion, and consumption. My current r... Read more»
Professor Allyson Fiddler
My main research focus currently is towards a monograph entitled Resisting Haiderisation. This will contextualise and analyse various different forms of cultural resistance to the populist right-wing in Austria. The impetus is presented by the rise to instutional power of Austria's Freedom Party (FP... Read more»
Georgina Firth
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... Read more»
Dr Anne-Marie Fortier
I came to Lancaster in January 1999, following an 18 month postdoctoral fellowship in Montreal (my adopted city). Although I miss the radical weather of Quebec, I feel extremely privileged to be at Lancaster University. Also, having completed my PhD Goldsmiths' College (University of London), the re... Read more»
Dr Patrick Hagopian
Patrick Hagopian's 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. His book titled The Vietnam Wa... Read more»
Professor Mary Hamilton
I am based in the Centre for the Study of Education and Training (CSET) within the Department of Educational Research and am an Associate Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre which is a partner in the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). I am... Read more»
Professor Geraldine Harris
BACKGROUND Gerry Harris has a BA and an MA in Drama from Manchester and a PhD from Lancaster. Before coming to focus on contemporary theatre and performance, Gerry's early research was into women performers in 19th Century French popular theatre, specifically the Café-Concert and the Music Hall. She... Read more»
Dr Hilary Hinds
Hilary Hinds's principal area of research is in early modern writing, particularly work by women from the radical sects of the second half of the seventeenth century. Her main publications in this area are God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism (Ma... Read more»
Dr Ann-Marie Houghton
My research interests are closely linked to the work of REAP and my university role as Teaching and Curriculum Development Advisor. Major themes at present include: Educational Equality and Social ExclusionInclusive teaching and learning policy and practiceFamily Learning within school and communit... Read more»
Professor Carolyn Jackson
My 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 I undertook a project explo... Read more»
Dr Veronika Koller
In general, my research is in the area of cognitive critical discourse analysis, with a focus on analysing identity work in discourse. I have done a fair bit of work on corporate discoures but more recently, my research interests have shifted to issues of health communication in the public, private ... Read more»
Professor Charlie Lewis
The role of the father in the family (with Michael Lamb (Cambridge))Life experiences and family relationshipsTheorizing the development of social understanding (with Jeremy Carpendale (Simon Fraser))Social understanding and culture (with Masuo Koyasu and Ayako Ogawa (Kyoto))Social understanding in c... Read more»
Professor Corinne May-Chahal
Social Responsibility and Gambling A review of research to inform policy development on young people and gambling in the UK was published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as a technical report Young People and Gambling in Britain. The research team, led by Professor May-Chahal, also w... Read more»
Professor Maureen McNeil
My background: I am a Canadian researcher and teacher who has worked in Canada , the USA , with a short stint in Berlin , but mainly in the UK (Leicester University, Institute of Education, London; Manchester University; Birmingham University and since 1996 at Lancaster University). I am sustained b... Read more»
Dr Fiona Measham
Fiona Measham was appointed to Lancaster University in 2000 and is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Science. Fiona is co-author of Illegal Leisure (1998), Dancing on Drugs (2001) and Illegal Leisure Revisited (2010), based on large scale studies of young people'... Read more»
Dr Karenza Moore
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 societie... Read more»
Dr Lindsey Moore
My first book, Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, 2008) is an interdisciplinary examination of a wide range of Arab women's postcolonial fiction, autobiography, film and other visual media. I continue to work on Arab women's writing and visual media... Read more»
Hannah Morgan
I came to Lancaster in December 2003 after working on disability-related research projects at the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of York and the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. My research interests lie predominantly in the field of disability studies and in... Read more»
Dr Maggie Mort
Research Interests: 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.Current and rec... Read more»
Dr Shuruq Naguib
Classical Exegesis of the Qur'an (Intertextuality and Hermeneutics); The Representation of Women in the Qur'an and Exegesis;RitualEthics in Islam, Genderin Islamic thought; Contemporary Women Interpreters of the Qur'an (Muslim Feminism); Dis/continuities between traditional and contemporary Islamic ... Read more»
Professor Lynne Pearce
Lynne Pearce arrived at Lancaster in 1990/1, having gained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 1987. Whilst studying for her PhD, and in the years immediately following, she worked part-time across of wide-range of further and higher educational establishments in the West Midlands, and then... Read more»
Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird
Corinna Peniston-Bird's work on oral testimonies is centred on the relationship between memories and cultural representations. She is currently working on gendered commemoration, with a particular focus on British war memorials. Her interest in untraditional source materials has recently been reflec... Read more»
Dr Celia Roberts
My research centres on the body, health, reproduction, sexuality and aging. I am currently writing a book on early onset puberty, entitled 'Puberty in Crisis: a bio-psycho-social account'. This book brings together feminist science studies, feminist theories of the body, sexuality and girlhood studi... Read more»
Dr Vicky Singleton
Key Words Materiality, practices, technoscience, feminist theory, health, medicine, care,farming, policy, gender constitution and enactment, standardization and generalisation, science and technology studies, (after) actor-network theory. I trained and worked as a general nurse before studying... Read more»
Professor Alison Stone
My main research interests are in two areas: (1) Feminist philosophy: particularly Irigaray and French feminism; concepts of sex, gender and the body; feminism and psychoanalysis; motherhood; and (2) Post Kantian continental philosophy: particularly Early German Romanticism, Hegel and German Idealis... Read more»
Dr Sofia Strid
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 i... Read more»
Professor Lucy Suchman
I came to the Sociology Department and the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster after twenty years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. My research has centered on relations of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design. Drawing on studies of work, science and te... Read more»
Dr Jane Sunderland
Gender, language and discourse; gender and sexuality; Harry Potter and boys' literacies; gender, language and children's fiction; multimodality; language and gender in African contexts ... Read more»
Dr Amit Thakkar
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 ju... Read more»
Professor Carol Thomas
Carol is Professor of Sociology, specialising in disability studies and the sociology of health and illness. Her current research interests are in the following areas: Disability Studies Carol is a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the international journal Disability and Society - http://w... Read more»
Dr Richard Twine
Dr Imogen Tyler
My research and teaching is focused in the following areas: Identities, Bodies and Subjectivities (social class, gender, race and ethnicity, migration, asylum, ability & disability, motherhood)Citizenship and GovernanceEquality and Marginality (theory, politics and policy)Revolt, dissent, prote... Read more»
Dr Jo Warin
My particular interest concerns how aspects of identity, such as gender, affect learning processes throughout a person's life. Watch Video (Watch a video of Jo Warin talking about her research interests) I have recently completed a qualitative longitudinal study of a sample of school pupils from the... Read more»
Professor Sue Wise
My route into higher education was a circuitous one. I left school at 16 with 2 'O' levels and did various jobs until I realised that my Dad had been right all along and I wasn't going to be able to get the kind of job I wanted unless I had more qualifications! College and night school lead on to an... Read more»
Professor Ruth Wodak
Ruth's main research agenda focus the development of theoretical approaches in discourse studies (combining ethnography, argumentation theory, rhetoric, and text linguistics); organizational communication; identity politics and politics of the past; language and/in politics; racism, prejudice and di... Read more»
Professor Linda Woodhead
I was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and my first job was as lecturer at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford. After that I came to Lancaster, liked it, and have been here ever since. I am a sociologist of religion. My main interest is in documenting and analysing religious change in modern soc... Read more»

Honorary / Visiting

Dr Jo Armstrong
Current research activities My main research interests are: gender equality; gendered employment policy; gender relations in work (paid and unpaid); violence against women; the intersection between social class and gender; and intersectionality in equality policies and institutions. In 2011, as a po... Read more»

Carla Banks
My principal research interests lie in the field of consumer culture touching on themes of ?the material', ?the visual' and consumption. In particular, I am interested in work around shopping, retailing, retail environments, visual merchandising and display practices. ... Read more»
Sarah Becklake
I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology with specialization in the areas of mobilities, tourism, gender, global political economy, and development. ... Read more»
Shireen Chilcott
My research interests include gender, gendered labour market inequalities, occupational segregation by gender, class and poverty. My current research focuses on the intersection between gender and the labour market by examining the position of women in four occupations in the non-traditional Constru... Read more»
Rebecca Fish
Experiences of service users and staff at a women's forensic learning disability service ... Read more»
Ali Hanbury
My professional history sees me working with young people, notably young women in informal education and community settings. As a sex educator I am keen to explore the roles and affects of, for example, gender relations, sexual orientation/sexualities, and various 'sexing practices' such as the HPV... Read more»
Dr Nina Held
Jenny McAlone
Broadly I am interested in what it means to be male or female, how this relates to masculinity and femininity, the formation of subjectivity and the perception/function of the body. How might these issues be explored musically? In what ways does the performance of gender affect the reception and per... Read more»
Kate McNicholas Smith
Feminsim; Queer; Gender; Sexuality; Lesbianism; Femininity; Femme; Bodies; Television; Fandom; Publics and Counterpublics; Intelligibility; Subjectivity etc. ... Read more»
Brigit Morris Colton
I am interested broadly in mental health, in particular work around creating alternatives to psychiatry and psychopharmacology. These issues are linked to subjectivity, activism, disability, capitalism, marketisation, health care, relationality, risk, governance, biomedicalisation, rights and respon... Read more»
Lucy Ryan
"Adopting Identities: How People Become Parents". ... Read more»

Dr Jo Armstrong
Current research activities My main research interests are: gender equality; gendered employment policy; gender relations in work (paid and unpaid); violence against women; the intersection between social class and gender; and intersectionality in equality policies and institutions. In 2011, as a po... Read more»
Dr Sarah Beresford
Sarah Beresford's research interests focus upon Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law and Society; Religion and Law. ... Read more»
Dr Brian Black
I received my MA and PhD in the Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. I teach courses on Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as theory and methods in Religious Studies. I am author of the book The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, ... Read more»
Professor Mercedes Camino
Cross-cultural voyages of exploration, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Literature and Culture (especially women writers), Early Modern Colonialism, History of Cartography, Spanish and European Film and Media Studies, Memory Studies. ... Read more»
Dr Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Dr Chatterjee's work concentrates on interrogating transdisciplinary aspects of cyberlaw, if possible from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on gender, sexuality and sexual expression/pornography. She is also interested in identity and the law as broadly conceived. Her recent research... Read more»
Dr Rebecca Coleman
My research so far has focused on empirical and theoretical explorations of the relations between bodies and images. I have recently finished a book, Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures, that tracks a socio-cultural and bodily imperative for transformation across a range of different scree... Read more»
Dr Anne Cronin
Current research URBAN SPACE AND FRIENDSHIP. I'm currently carrying out a British Academy funded a project that explores the connections between urbanism and friendship with a focus on work and workplace. I'm aiming to explore friendships as forms of social ties that are not captured by (aca... Read more»
Dr Sondra Cuban
My current research projects are: an ESRC study, called, Home/Work: the roles of education, learning, and literacies in the networks and mobilities of migrant carers. It focuses on the gendered geographies of skilled migration at the intersections of labour, care, and rurality. The other project is ... Read more»
Dr Debra Ferreday
I am a feminist cultural theorist with strong research interests in gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory and embodiment. My research engages with embodied and social aspects of new media and digital cultures, celebrity culture, fashion, and consumption. My current r... Read more»
Professor Allyson Fiddler
My main research focus currently is towards a monograph entitled Resisting Haiderisation. This will contextualise and analyse various different forms of cultural resistance to the populist right-wing in Austria. The impetus is presented by the rise to instutional power of Austria's Freedom Party (FP... Read more»
Georgina Firth
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... Read more»
Dr Anne-Marie Fortier
I came to Lancaster in January 1999, following an 18 month postdoctoral fellowship in Montreal (my adopted city). Although I miss the radical weather of Quebec, I feel extremely privileged to be at Lancaster University. Also, having completed my PhD Goldsmiths' College (University of London), the re... Read more»
Dr Patrick Hagopian
Patrick Hagopian's 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. His book titled The Vietnam Wa... Read more»
Professor Mary Hamilton
I am based in the Centre for the Study of Education and Training (CSET) within the Department of Educational Research and am an Associate Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre which is a partner in the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). I am... Read more»
Professor Geraldine Harris
BACKGROUND Gerry Harris has a BA and an MA in Drama from Manchester and a PhD from Lancaster. Before coming to focus on contemporary theatre and performance, Gerry's early research was into women performers in 19th Century French popular theatre, specifically the Café-Concert and the Music Hall. She... Read more»
Dr Hilary Hinds
Hilary Hinds's principal area of research is in early modern writing, particularly work by women from the radical sects of the second half of the seventeenth century. Her main publications in this area are God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism (Ma... Read more»
Dr Ann-Marie Houghton
My research interests are closely linked to the work of REAP and my university role as Teaching and Curriculum Development Advisor. Major themes at present include: Educational Equality and Social ExclusionInclusive teaching and learning policy and practiceFamily Learning within school and communit... Read more»
Professor Carolyn Jackson
My 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 I undertook a project explo... Read more»
Dr Veronika Koller
In general, my research is in the area of cognitive critical discourse analysis, with a focus on analysing identity work in discourse. I have done a fair bit of work on corporate discoures but more recently, my research interests have shifted to issues of health communication in the public, private ... Read more»
Professor Charlie Lewis
The role of the father in the family (with Michael Lamb (Cambridge))Life experiences and family relationshipsTheorizing the development of social understanding (with Jeremy Carpendale (Simon Fraser))Social understanding and culture (with Masuo Koyasu and Ayako Ogawa (Kyoto))Social understanding in c... Read more»
Professor Corinne May-Chahal
Social Responsibility and Gambling A review of research to inform policy development on young people and gambling in the UK was published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as a technical report Young People and Gambling in Britain. The research team, led by Professor May-Chahal, also w... Read more»
Professor Maureen McNeil
My background: I am a Canadian researcher and teacher who has worked in Canada , the USA , with a short stint in Berlin , but mainly in the UK (Leicester University, Institute of Education, London; Manchester University; Birmingham University and since 1996 at Lancaster University). I am sustained b... Read more»
Dr Fiona Measham
Fiona Measham was appointed to Lancaster University in 2000 and is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Science. Fiona is co-author of Illegal Leisure (1998), Dancing on Drugs (2001) and Illegal Leisure Revisited (2010), based on large scale studies of young people'... Read more»
Dr Karenza Moore
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 societie... Read more»
Dr Lindsey Moore
My first book, Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, 2008) is an interdisciplinary examination of a wide range of Arab women's postcolonial fiction, autobiography, film and other visual media. I continue to work on Arab women's writing and visual media... Read more»
Hannah Morgan
I came to Lancaster in December 2003 after working on disability-related research projects at the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of York and the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. My research interests lie predominantly in the field of disability studies and in... Read more»
Dr Maggie Mort
Research Interests: 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.Current and rec... Read more»
Dr Shuruq Naguib
Classical Exegesis of the Qur'an (Intertextuality and Hermeneutics); The Representation of Women in the Qur'an and Exegesis;RitualEthics in Islam, Genderin Islamic thought; Contemporary Women Interpreters of the Qur'an (Muslim Feminism); Dis/continuities between traditional and contemporary Islamic ... Read more»
Professor Lynne Pearce
Lynne Pearce arrived at Lancaster in 1990/1, having gained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 1987. Whilst studying for her PhD, and in the years immediately following, she worked part-time across of wide-range of further and higher educational establishments in the West Midlands, and then... Read more»
Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird
Corinna Peniston-Bird's work on oral testimonies is centred on the relationship between memories and cultural representations. She is currently working on gendered commemoration, with a particular focus on British war memorials. Her interest in untraditional source materials has recently been reflec... Read more»
Dr Celia Roberts
My research centres on the body, health, reproduction, sexuality and aging. I am currently writing a book on early onset puberty, entitled 'Puberty in Crisis: a bio-psycho-social account'. This book brings together feminist science studies, feminist theories of the body, sexuality and girlhood studi... Read more»
Dr Vicky Singleton
Key Words Materiality, practices, technoscience, feminist theory, health, medicine, care,farming, policy, gender constitution and enactment, standardization and generalisation, science and technology studies, (after) actor-network theory. I trained and worked as a general nurse before studying... Read more»
Professor Alison Stone
My main research interests are in two areas: (1) Feminist philosophy: particularly Irigaray and French feminism; concepts of sex, gender and the body; feminism and psychoanalysis; motherhood; and (2) Post Kantian continental philosophy: particularly Early German Romanticism, Hegel and German Idealis... Read more»
Dr Sofia Strid
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 i... Read more»
Professor Lucy Suchman
I came to the Sociology Department and the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster after twenty years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. My research has centered on relations of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design. Drawing on studies of work, science and te... Read more»
Dr Jane Sunderland
Gender, language and discourse; gender and sexuality; Harry Potter and boys' literacies; gender, language and children's fiction; multimodality; language and gender in African contexts ... Read more»
Dr Amit Thakkar
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 ju... Read more»
Professor Carol Thomas
Carol is Professor of Sociology, specialising in disability studies and the sociology of health and illness. Her current research interests are in the following areas: Disability Studies Carol is a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the international journal Disability and Society - http://w... Read more»
Dr Richard Twine
Dr Imogen Tyler
My research and teaching is focused in the following areas: Identities, Bodies and Subjectivities (social class, gender, race and ethnicity, migration, asylum, ability & disability, motherhood)Citizenship and GovernanceEquality and Marginality (theory, politics and policy)Revolt, dissent, prote... Read more»
Dr Jo Warin
My particular interest concerns how aspects of identity, such as gender, affect learning processes throughout a person's life. Watch Video (Watch a video of Jo Warin talking about her research interests) I have recently completed a qualitative longitudinal study of a sample of school pupils from the... Read more»
Professor Sue Wise
My route into higher education was a circuitous one. I left school at 16 with 2 'O' levels and did various jobs until I realised that my Dad had been right all along and I wasn't going to be able to get the kind of job I wanted unless I had more qualifications! College and night school lead on to an... Read more»
Professor Ruth Wodak
Ruth's main research agenda focus the development of theoretical approaches in discourse studies (combining ethnography, argumentation theory, rhetoric, and text linguistics); organizational communication; identity politics and politics of the past; language and/in politics; racism, prejudice and di... Read more»
Professor Linda Woodhead
I was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and my first job was as lecturer at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford. After that I came to Lancaster, liked it, and have been here ever since. I am a sociologist of religion. My main interest is in documenting and analysing religious change in modern soc... Read more»

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Home About Us People Research Prospective Students Current Students News & Events Contact Us	People in Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Academic Research Students All Staff Search this list: Dr Sarah Beresford Sarah Beresford's research interests focus upon Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law and Society; Religion and Law. ... Read more» Dr Brian Black I received my MA and PhD in the Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. I teach courses on Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as theory and methods in Religious Studies. I am author of the book The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, ... Read more» Professor Mercedes Camino Cross-cultural voyages of exploration, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Literature and Culture (especially women writers), Early Modern Colonialism, History of Cartography, Spanish and European Film and Media Studies, Memory Studies. ... Read more» Dr Bela Bonita Chatterjee Dr Chatterjee's work concentrates on interrogating transdisciplinary aspects of cyberlaw, if possible from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on gender, sexuality and sexual expression/pornography. She is also interested in identity and the law as broadly conceived. Her recent research... Read more» Dr Rebecca Coleman My research so far has focused on empirical and theoretical explorations of the relations between bodies and images. I have recently finished a book, Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures, that tracks a socio-cultural and bodily imperative for transformation across a range of different scree... Read more» Dr Anne Cronin Current research URBAN SPACE AND FRIENDSHIP. I'm currently carrying out a British Academy funded a project that explores the connections between urbanism and friendship with a focus on work and workplace. I'm aiming to explore friendships as forms of social ties that are not captured by (aca... Read more» Dr Sondra Cuban My current research projects are: an ESRC study, called, Home/Work: the roles of education, learning, and literacies in the networks and mobilities of migrant carers. It focuses on the gendered geographies of skilled migration at the intersections of labour, care, and rurality. The other project is ... Read more» Dr Debra Ferreday I am a feminist cultural theorist with strong research interests in gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory and embodiment. My research engages with embodied and social aspects of new media and digital cultures, celebrity culture, fashion, and consumption. My current r... Read more» Professor Allyson Fiddler My main research focus currently is towards a monograph entitled Resisting Haiderisation. This will contextualise and analyse various different forms of cultural resistance to the populist right-wing in Austria. The impetus is presented by the rise to instutional power of Austria's Freedom Party (FP... Read more» Georgina Firth 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... Read more» Dr Anne-Marie Fortier I came to Lancaster in January 1999, following an 18 month postdoctoral fellowship in Montreal (my adopted city). Although I miss the radical weather of Quebec, I feel extremely privileged to be at Lancaster University. Also, having completed my PhD Goldsmiths' College (University of London), the re... Read more» Dr Patrick Hagopian Patrick Hagopian's 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. His book titled The Vietnam Wa... Read more» Professor Mary Hamilton I am based in the Centre for the Study of Education and Training (CSET) within the Department of Educational Research and am an Associate Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre which is a partner in the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). I am... Read more» Professor Geraldine Harris BACKGROUND Gerry Harris has a BA and an MA in Drama from Manchester and a PhD from Lancaster. Before coming to focus on contemporary theatre and performance, Gerry's early research was into women performers in 19th Century French popular theatre, specifically the Café-Concert and the Music Hall. She... Read more» Dr Hilary Hinds Hilary Hinds's principal area of research is in early modern writing, particularly work by women from the radical sects of the second half of the seventeenth century. Her main publications in this area are God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism (Ma... Read more» Dr Ann-Marie Houghton My research interests are closely linked to the work of REAP and my university role as Teaching and Curriculum Development Advisor. Major themes at present include: Educational Equality and Social ExclusionInclusive teaching and learning policy and practiceFamily Learning within school and communit... Read more» Professor Carolyn Jackson My 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 I undertook a project explo... Read more» Dr Veronika Koller In general, my research is in the area of cognitive critical discourse analysis, with a focus on analysing identity work in discourse. I have done a fair bit of work on corporate discoures but more recently, my research interests have shifted to issues of health communication in the public, private ... Read more» Professor Charlie Lewis The role of the father in the family (with Michael Lamb (Cambridge))Life experiences and family relationshipsTheorizing the development of social understanding (with Jeremy Carpendale (Simon Fraser))Social understanding and culture (with Masuo Koyasu and Ayako Ogawa (Kyoto))Social understanding in c... Read more» Professor Corinne May-Chahal Social Responsibility and Gambling A review of research to inform policy development on young people and gambling in the UK was published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as a technical report Young People and Gambling in Britain. The research team, led by Professor May-Chahal, also w... Read more» Professor Maureen McNeil My background: I am a Canadian researcher and teacher who has worked in Canada , the USA , with a short stint in Berlin , but mainly in the UK (Leicester University, Institute of Education, London; Manchester University; Birmingham University and since 1996 at Lancaster University). I am sustained b... Read more» Dr Fiona Measham Fiona Measham was appointed to Lancaster University in 2000 and is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Science. Fiona is co-author of Illegal Leisure (1998), Dancing on Drugs (2001) and Illegal Leisure Revisited (2010), based on large scale studies of young people'... Read more» Dr Karenza Moore 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 societie... Read more» Dr Lindsey Moore My first book, Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, 2008) is an interdisciplinary examination of a wide range of Arab women's postcolonial fiction, autobiography, film and other visual media. I continue to work on Arab women's writing and visual media... Read more» Hannah Morgan I came to Lancaster in December 2003 after working on disability-related research projects at the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of York and the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. My research interests lie predominantly in the field of disability studies and in... Read more» Dr Maggie Mort Research Interests: 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.Current and rec... Read more» Dr Shuruq Naguib Classical Exegesis of the Qur'an (Intertextuality and Hermeneutics); The Representation of Women in the Qur'an and Exegesis;RitualEthics in Islam, Genderin Islamic thought; Contemporary Women Interpreters of the Qur'an (Muslim Feminism); Dis/continuities between traditional and contemporary Islamic ... Read more» Professor Lynne Pearce Lynne Pearce arrived at Lancaster in 1990/1, having gained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 1987. Whilst studying for her PhD, and in the years immediately following, she worked part-time across of wide-range of further and higher educational establishments in the West Midlands, and then... Read more» Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird Corinna Peniston-Bird's work on oral testimonies is centred on the relationship between memories and cultural representations. She is currently working on gendered commemoration, with a particular focus on British war memorials. Her interest in untraditional source materials has recently been reflec... Read more» Dr Celia Roberts My research centres on the body, health, reproduction, sexuality and aging. I am currently writing a book on early onset puberty, entitled 'Puberty in Crisis: a bio-psycho-social account'. This book brings together feminist science studies, feminist theories of the body, sexuality and girlhood studi... Read more» Dr Vicky Singleton Key Words Materiality, practices, technoscience, feminist theory, health, medicine, care,farming, policy, gender constitution and enactment, standardization and generalisation, science and technology studies, (after) actor-network theory. I trained and worked as a general nurse before studying... Read more» Professor Alison Stone My main research interests are in two areas: (1) Feminist philosophy: particularly Irigaray and French feminism; concepts of sex, gender and the body; feminism and psychoanalysis; motherhood; and (2) Post Kantian continental philosophy: particularly Early German Romanticism, Hegel and German Idealis... Read more» Dr Sofia Strid 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 i... Read more» Professor Lucy Suchman I came to the Sociology Department and the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster after twenty years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. My research has centered on relations of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design. Drawing on studies of work, science and te... Read more» Dr Jane Sunderland Gender, language and discourse; gender and sexuality; Harry Potter and boys' literacies; gender, language and children's fiction; multimodality; language and gender in African contexts ... Read more» Dr Amit Thakkar 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 ju... Read more» Professor Carol Thomas Carol is Professor of Sociology, specialising in disability studies and the sociology of health and illness. Her current research interests are in the following areas: Disability Studies Carol is a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the international journal Disability and Society - http://w... Read more» Dr Richard Twine Dr Imogen Tyler My research and teaching is focused in the following areas: Identities, Bodies and Subjectivities (social class, gender, race and ethnicity, migration, asylum, ability & disability, motherhood)Citizenship and GovernanceEquality and Marginality (theory, politics and policy)Revolt, dissent, prote... Read more» Dr Jo Warin My particular interest concerns how aspects of identity, such as gender, affect learning processes throughout a person's life. Watch Video (Watch a video of Jo Warin talking about her research interests) I have recently completed a qualitative longitudinal study of a sample of school pupils from the... Read more» Professor Sue Wise My route into higher education was a circuitous one. I left school at 16 with 2 'O' levels and did various jobs until I realised that my Dad had been right all along and I wasn't going to be able to get the kind of job I wanted unless I had more qualifications! College and night school lead on to an... Read more» Professor Ruth Wodak Ruth's main research agenda focus the development of theoretical approaches in discourse studies (combining ethnography, argumentation theory, rhetoric, and text linguistics); organizational communication; identity politics and politics of the past; language and/in politics; racism, prejudice and di... Read more» Professor Linda Woodhead I was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and my first job was as lecturer at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford. After that I came to Lancaster, liked it, and have been here ever since. I am a sociologist of religion. My main interest is in documenting and analysing religious change in modern soc... Read more» Honorary / Visiting Dr Jo Armstrong Current research activities My main research interests are: gender equality; gendered employment policy; gender relations in work (paid and unpaid); violence against women; the intersection between social class and gender; and intersectionality in equality policies and institutions. In 2011, as a po... Read more» Search this list: Search this list: Search this list: Search this list: Carla Banks My principal research interests lie in the field of consumer culture touching on themes of ?the material', ?the visual' and consumption. In particular, I am interested in work around shopping, retailing, retail environments, visual merchandising and display practices. ... Read more» Sarah Becklake I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology with specialization in the areas of mobilities, tourism, gender, global political economy, and development. ... Read more» Shireen Chilcott My research interests include gender, gendered labour market inequalities, occupational segregation by gender, class and poverty. My current research focuses on the intersection between gender and the labour market by examining the position of women in four occupations in the non-traditional Constru... Read more» Rebecca Fish Experiences of service users and staff at a women's forensic learning disability service ... Read more» Ali Hanbury My professional history sees me working with young people, notably young women in informal education and community settings. As a sex educator I am keen to explore the roles and affects of, for example, gender relations, sexual orientation/sexualities, and various 'sexing practices' such as the HPV... Read more» Dr Nina Held Jenny McAlone Broadly I am interested in what it means to be male or female, how this relates to masculinity and femininity, the formation of subjectivity and the perception/function of the body. How might these issues be explored musically? In what ways does the performance of gender affect the reception and per... Read more» Kate McNicholas Smith Feminsim; Queer; Gender; Sexuality; Lesbianism; Femininity; Femme; Bodies; Television; Fandom; Publics and Counterpublics; Intelligibility; Subjectivity etc. ... Read more» Brigit Morris Colton I am interested broadly in mental health, in particular work around creating alternatives to psychiatry and psychopharmacology. These issues are linked to subjectivity, activism, disability, capitalism, marketisation, health care, relationality, risk, governance, biomedicalisation, rights and respon... Read more» Lucy Ryan "Adopting Identities: How People Become Parents". ... Read more» Search this list: Dr Jo Armstrong Current research activities My main research interests are: gender equality; gendered employment policy; gender relations in work (paid and unpaid); violence against women; the intersection between social class and gender; and intersectionality in equality policies and institutions. In 2011, as a po... Read more» Dr Sarah Beresford Sarah Beresford's research interests focus upon Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law and Society; Religion and Law. ... Read more» Dr Brian Black I received my MA and PhD in the Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. I teach courses on Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as theory and methods in Religious Studies. I am author of the book The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, ... Read more» Professor Mercedes Camino Cross-cultural voyages of exploration, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Literature and Culture (especially women writers), Early Modern Colonialism, History of Cartography, Spanish and European Film and Media Studies, Memory Studies. ... Read more» Dr Bela Bonita Chatterjee Dr Chatterjee's work concentrates on interrogating transdisciplinary aspects of cyberlaw, if possible from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on gender, sexuality and sexual expression/pornography. She is also interested in identity and the law as broadly conceived. Her recent research... Read more» Dr Rebecca Coleman My research so far has focused on empirical and theoretical explorations of the relations between bodies and images. I have recently finished a book, Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures, that tracks a socio-cultural and bodily imperative for transformation across a range of different scree... Read more» Dr Anne Cronin Current research URBAN SPACE AND FRIENDSHIP. I'm currently carrying out a British Academy funded a project that explores the connections between urbanism and friendship with a focus on work and workplace. I'm aiming to explore friendships as forms of social ties that are not captured by (aca... Read more» Dr Sondra Cuban My current research projects are: an ESRC study, called, Home/Work: the roles of education, learning, and literacies in the networks and mobilities of migrant carers. It focuses on the gendered geographies of skilled migration at the intersections of labour, care, and rurality. The other project is ... Read more» Dr Debra Ferreday I am a feminist cultural theorist with strong research interests in gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory and embodiment. My research engages with embodied and social aspects of new media and digital cultures, celebrity culture, fashion, and consumption. My current r... Read more» Professor Allyson Fiddler My main research focus currently is towards a monograph entitled Resisting Haiderisation. This will contextualise and analyse various different forms of cultural resistance to the populist right-wing in Austria. The impetus is presented by the rise to instutional power of Austria's Freedom Party (FP... Read more» Georgina Firth 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... Read more» Dr Anne-Marie Fortier I came to Lancaster in January 1999, following an 18 month postdoctoral fellowship in Montreal (my adopted city). Although I miss the radical weather of Quebec, I feel extremely privileged to be at Lancaster University. Also, having completed my PhD Goldsmiths' College (University of London), the re... Read more» Dr Patrick Hagopian Patrick Hagopian's 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. His book titled The Vietnam Wa... Read more» Professor Mary Hamilton I am based in the Centre for the Study of Education and Training (CSET) within the Department of Educational Research and am an Associate Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre which is a partner in the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). I am... Read more» Professor Geraldine Harris BACKGROUND Gerry Harris has a BA and an MA in Drama from Manchester and a PhD from Lancaster. Before coming to focus on contemporary theatre and performance, Gerry's early research was into women performers in 19th Century French popular theatre, specifically the Café-Concert and the Music Hall. She... Read more» Dr Hilary Hinds Hilary Hinds's principal area of research is in early modern writing, particularly work by women from the radical sects of the second half of the seventeenth century. Her main publications in this area are God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism (Ma... Read more» Dr Ann-Marie Houghton My research interests are closely linked to the work of REAP and my university role as Teaching and Curriculum Development Advisor. Major themes at present include: Educational Equality and Social ExclusionInclusive teaching and learning policy and practiceFamily Learning within school and communit... Read more» Professor Carolyn Jackson My 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 I undertook a project explo... Read more» Dr Veronika Koller In general, my research is in the area of cognitive critical discourse analysis, with a focus on analysing identity work in discourse. I have done a fair bit of work on corporate discoures but more recently, my research interests have shifted to issues of health communication in the public, private ... Read more» Professor Charlie Lewis The role of the father in the family (with Michael Lamb (Cambridge))Life experiences and family relationshipsTheorizing the development of social understanding (with Jeremy Carpendale (Simon Fraser))Social understanding and culture (with Masuo Koyasu and Ayako Ogawa (Kyoto))Social understanding in c... Read more» Professor Corinne May-Chahal Social Responsibility and Gambling A review of research to inform policy development on young people and gambling in the UK was published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as a technical report Young People and Gambling in Britain. The research team, led by Professor May-Chahal, also w... Read more» Professor Maureen McNeil My background: I am a Canadian researcher and teacher who has worked in Canada , the USA , with a short stint in Berlin , but mainly in the UK (Leicester University, Institute of Education, London; Manchester University; Birmingham University and since 1996 at Lancaster University). I am sustained b... Read more» Dr Fiona Measham Fiona Measham was appointed to Lancaster University in 2000 and is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Science. Fiona is co-author of Illegal Leisure (1998), Dancing on Drugs (2001) and Illegal Leisure Revisited (2010), based on large scale studies of young people'... Read more» Dr Karenza Moore 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 societie... Read more» Dr Lindsey Moore My first book, Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, 2008) is an interdisciplinary examination of a wide range of Arab women's postcolonial fiction, autobiography, film and other visual media. I continue to work on Arab women's writing and visual media... Read more» Hannah Morgan I came to Lancaster in December 2003 after working on disability-related research projects at the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of York and the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. My research interests lie predominantly in the field of disability studies and in... Read more» Dr Maggie Mort Research Interests: 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.Current and rec... Read more» Dr Shuruq Naguib Classical Exegesis of the Qur'an (Intertextuality and Hermeneutics); The Representation of Women in the Qur'an and Exegesis;RitualEthics in Islam, Genderin Islamic thought; Contemporary Women Interpreters of the Qur'an (Muslim Feminism); Dis/continuities between traditional and contemporary Islamic ... Read more» Professor Lynne Pearce Lynne Pearce arrived at Lancaster in 1990/1, having gained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 1987. Whilst studying for her PhD, and in the years immediately following, she worked part-time across of wide-range of further and higher educational establishments in the West Midlands, and then... Read more» Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird Corinna Peniston-Bird's work on oral testimonies is centred on the relationship between memories and cultural representations. She is currently working on gendered commemoration, with a particular focus on British war memorials. Her interest in untraditional source materials has recently been reflec... Read more» Dr Celia Roberts My research centres on the body, health, reproduction, sexuality and aging. I am currently writing a book on early onset puberty, entitled 'Puberty in Crisis: a bio-psycho-social account'. This book brings together feminist science studies, feminist theories of the body, sexuality and girlhood studi... Read more» Dr Vicky Singleton Key Words Materiality, practices, technoscience, feminist theory, health, medicine, care,farming, policy, gender constitution and enactment, standardization and generalisation, science and technology studies, (after) actor-network theory. I trained and worked as a general nurse before studying... Read more» Professor Alison Stone My main research interests are in two areas: (1) Feminist philosophy: particularly Irigaray and French feminism; concepts of sex, gender and the body; feminism and psychoanalysis; motherhood; and (2) Post Kantian continental philosophy: particularly Early German Romanticism, Hegel and German Idealis... Read more» Dr Sofia Strid 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 i... Read more» Professor Lucy Suchman I came to the Sociology Department and the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster after twenty years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. My research has centered on relations of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design. Drawing on studies of work, science and te... Read more» Dr Jane Sunderland Gender, language and discourse; gender and sexuality; Harry Potter and boys' literacies; gender, language and children's fiction; multimodality; language and gender in African contexts ... Read more» Dr Amit Thakkar 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 ju... Read more» Professor Carol Thomas Carol is Professor of Sociology, specialising in disability studies and the sociology of health and illness. Her current research interests are in the following areas: Disability Studies Carol is a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the international journal Disability and Society - http://w... Read more» Dr Richard Twine Dr Imogen Tyler My research and teaching is focused in the following areas: Identities, Bodies and Subjectivities (social class, gender, race and ethnicity, migration, asylum, ability & disability, motherhood)Citizenship and GovernanceEquality and Marginality (theory, politics and policy)Revolt, dissent, prote... Read more» Dr Jo Warin My particular interest concerns how aspects of identity, such as gender, affect learning processes throughout a person's life. Watch Video (Watch a video of Jo Warin talking about her research interests) I have recently completed a qualitative longitudinal study of a sample of school pupils from the... Read more» Professor Sue Wise My route into higher education was a circuitous one. I left school at 16 with 2 'O' levels and did various jobs until I realised that my Dad had been right all along and I wasn't going to be able to get the kind of job I wanted unless I had more qualifications! College and night school lead on to an... Read more» Professor Ruth Wodak Ruth's main research agenda focus the development of theoretical approaches in discourse studies (combining ethnography, argumentation theory, rhetoric, and text linguistics); organizational communication; identity politics and politics of the past; language and/in politics; racism, prejudice and di... Read more» Professor Linda Woodhead I was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and my first job was as lecturer at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford. After that I came to Lancaster, liked it, and have been here ever since. I am a sociologist of religion. My main interest is in documenting and analysing religious change in modern soc... Read more»
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