PhD Supervision - Areas of Interest
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Sarah Beresford
Sarah Beresford would be happy to receive applications from potential doctoral students in the areas of Family, Gender, Sexuality and Religion. -
Brian Black
I would be happy to supervise doctoral students working in the following areas: ?Dialogue and debate in Indian philosophy ?Encounters between Hinduism and Buddhism ?Indian Ethics ?Application of traditional ideas to modern contexts: multiculturalism, social justice, secularism ?Yoga and meditation in contemporary Asia ?Gender and South Asian religions ?Religion and Narrative in South Asia ?Asian religions and environmental issues -
Mercedes Camino
Memory Studies, Film Studies, Early Modern Exploration,Colonialism, History of Cartography, Contemporary Cultural Studies. -
Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Dr Chatterjee welcome expressions of interest from potential doctoral students in the following areas: Socio-Legal studies, in particular: Gender, Sexuality and Law Film/Media and the Law -
Rebecca Coleman
I currently co-supervise PhD students working on issues of affect and film, girlhood and youth, visual culture and new media. I welcome PhD applications in any of the areas of my research - please feel free to contact me to discuss applications further. -
Anne Cronin
I am available to supervise PhD projects in the areas of: advertising and branding; consumption and consumer society; urban space and culture; friendship and sociality; gender and culture; media and cultural theory. -
Sondra Cuban
new media and technologies, Adult learning and education, women's studies/gender studies, migration studies, qualitative research, ethnographic studies. -
Debra Ferreday
I am interested in working with students in any area of gender studies, media studies, cultural studies or visual culture, but have particular research interests in:Embodiment and performanceFemininities, including queer and trans femininitiesGender and popular cultureDigital media and online culturesCelebrity, fashion and dress -
Allyson Fiddler
Contemporary German Cultural and Literary Studies, including film studies, single-author/playwright/film-maker studies, women's studies, and especially interested in Austrian Studies -
Georgina Firth
Criminal law - particularly feminist perspectives, penology and sexual offences Immigration law - particularly feminist perspectives, issues relating to children and asylum issues -
Anne-Marie Fortier
I would be interested in supervising research students within the areas related to my research interests, for example: Multiculturalisms; 'race', racisms; Migration and related aspects, including but not restricted to: migrant/diasporic/transnational lives; migration and national politics (policies, border controls, etc.). Sexuality and migration including but not restricted to: queer migrants and migrations; sexuality and migration (e.g. sexuality and border control); migrant sex workers; intimacy and migration. Citizenship and related including but not restricted to: cultural aspects of citizenship, sexual citizenship, intimate citizenship, citizenship and affect, or transnational citizenship; citizenship training or the like (e.g. citizenship curriculum in England; citizenship classes and ceremonies for immigrants), and so on. -
Patrick Hagopian
Critical Studies of Museums, Cultural and Social Memory; Twentieth-Century Cultural Politics;Cold War and Post-Cold War Military Discourses; Representations of the History of Race and Slavery -
Mary Hamilton
Adult language, literacy and numeracy education (ALLN) and the new literacy studies; Informal adult learning and everyday practices across the lifespan; Use of Literacies and Technologies among older people Policy issues in ALLN, global and comparative perspectives; Media representations of educational issues; Participatory research methodologies; Institutional ethnography Use of visual data in research and computer assisted qualitative analysis. -
Geraldine Harris
Gerry would be happy to supervise postgraduate students interested in any issues related to her research areas. She has in the past supervised to successful completion PhD Students on the following topics: Millennial anxiety in the work of Rose English, English, Forced Entertainment and Insomniac, heritage and site specific performance, narrative in contemporary experimental performance (Imitating the dog, Desperate Optimists, Insomniac, the Wooster Group), multi media in contemporary performance (Uninvited Guests, Station House Opera, the Wooster Group, Fura del Baus) as well as on topics relating to feminism and gender politics in theatre and performance. These include PhD's with practice as research elements. She is currently supervising postgraduates working on representations of masculinity in crises in theatre and performance,the erotics of circus, issues of participtation and democracry in contemporary performance, issues of teaching citizenship in schools in the UK and Uganda. -
Ann-Marie Houghton
On areas associated with my research interests but in particular in the next few years on inclusive curriculum development, the academic and learning experiences of disabled learners, transitions issues into education and the workplace, especially for disabled graduates, from a multi-agency perspective the policy agenda of Schools that will encompass family and intergenerational learning from Faith Schools agenda -
Carolyn Jackson
All aspects of gender and education. For example,single-sex and co-educational learning environments, girls' in- and out-of-school lives,concerns about boys' 'underachievement', constructions of gendered learner identities, gender and teacher identities, gender and the curriculum, gendered identities in Higher Education. Social psychology of teaching and learning, especially motives for learning or not learning, fear of failure, how classroom environments and peers shape approaches to learning and learner identities. Fear in education - the effects of fear onall aspectsof school and university life. -
Veronika Koller
I welcome proposals for research addressing issues of metaphor, corporate communication/organisational discourse andhealth communication. -
Corinne May-Chahal
As ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre Lancaster pathway lead for social work I am happy to take students with a serious interest in taking the social work and social care practice knowledge base further particular on an international and/or comparative level. In addition I have strong research interests in child protection (especially in the development and application of new technologies) and also gambling, criminal careers, resilience and vulnerability. -
Maureen McNeil
politics, theories, representations and popular narratives of reproduction feminist technoscience studies genomics and the media bioart and genomics popular biographies of scientists science and technology in popular culture cultural studies of technoscience power, theory and knowledge (particularly with reference to gender) feminist theory, practice and pedagogy class politics and relations, gender and class, inequalities and social justice -
Fiona Measham
Fiona welcomes PhD applications within her specialist field including changing patterns of alcohol and drug use, gender, leisure and transgression. -
Karenza Moore
Drug and alcohol use (risks, harms, pleasures); clubbing/raving; electronic dance music (EDM) cultures; crime, deviance and transgressionin the night-time economy; national and international drug policy; youth crime; cybercrime; crime and new technologies; crime and the media; sociology of 'the future'. Through my links with Lancaster University's Centre for Gender and Women's Studies (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/gws/index.php), I'm also interested in potential doctoral students in the areas of: female illicit drug use; gender and illicit drug use;gender and EDM club cultures. -
Lindsey Moore
I would be interested in supervising PG research in Arab women's writing in English, French or translation from Arabic; film/visual arts in the Arab Muslim world; South Asian, African (North and Sub-Saharan) and migrant/diaspora literatures; twentieth-century colonial fiction; expatriate and travel writing. -
Hannah Morgan
Hannah is interesting in supervising projects in the inter-disciplinary field of disability studies. -
Maggie Mort
Topics I would be interested in supervising include: science, technology and medicine studies - in particular studies of clinical practice, learning and evidence telecare and domestic space - in particular governance and ethics of new care technologies evidence in action studies - in particular lay ethnographies of technoscience disaster and recovery studies -
Shuruq Naguib
Qur'anic commentary (Tafsir) Modern Interpretation of the Qur'an Islamic Ritual Jurisprudence Muslims in Britain Gender and Islam -
Corinna Peniston-Bird
Dr Peniston-Bird would like to hear from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings: The combat taboo and gendered experience of war and commemoration. Britain in the First and Second World Wars. Austria in the inter-war period. Cultural Representations of and Personal Testimonies in the above fields.Students writing essays and dissertations might be interested in the following guide to websites useful for Modern British History. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/history/resources/modern.htm -
Celia Roberts
Supervision I am interested in a number of research areas, mostly focusing on issues relating to health, embodiment, sexuality, reproduction and biology. I have co-supervised 6 PhD students to completion to date and all have passed with no or minor amendments: - Lin Wen-Yuan (2005) who worked on kidney dialysis in Taiwan; - Kaori Sasaki (2006) who worked on brain death and organ transplantation in Japan; - Ranjini C.R. (2006) who worked on health information systems in southern India - Anne Rudolph (2009) whose thesis focussed on young lesbian, bi-sexual and queer women's understandings of sexually transmitted infections; - Clare Hollowell (2010) who studied young women's experiences of fun; and -Shih, Li-Wen (2012) whose research focussed on prenatal testing and screening in Taiwan. I have seven current phD students: 1. Brigit Morris-Coulton, who is working on mental health recovery and arts practices 2. Rebecca Fox, who is working on women with learning disabilities living in secure accomodation 3. Kate McNicolas-Smith, who is working on lesbians on television 4. Alison Hanbury, studying the HPV vaccine in the UK 5. Oscar Maldonado,researching the HPV vaccine in Colombia 6. Joann Wilkinson, studying reproductive biosensors 7. Lucy Ryan, studying adoptors' views and exeriences of parenting. All of these are empirical research projects, using methods such as participant observation, interviewing, focus groups and textual analysis. I am deeply interested in feminist and social theory and am an editor of a leading feminist journal, Feminist Theory. I am very keen to work with postgraduate students on these themes relating to feminist theory, embodiment and sexuality, either in Sociology or Women's Studies. Prospective students should feel free to contact me by email to discuss the possibility of studying at Lancaster. -
Vicky Singleton
I welcome research students and have supervised 15 students researching in a range of substantive areas including; Caesarean section and women's right to choose, Surgical construction and treatment of obesity, Schizophrenia and psychiatric care, Young women, sexuality and Christian traditions, The co-evolution of children's bodies and prosthetic limbs. I am interested in and have expertise in qualitative research including participant observation, interviews, and textual analysis in the form of detailed case studies. In particular I am interested in research that seeks to articulate and to appreciate the work of practice of programmes, policies, interventions, systems and guidelines. -
Alison Stone
Feminist philosophy German Idealism and Romanticism nineteenth-century German philosophy twentieth-century Continental philosophy French feminism Hegel -
Lucy Suchman
I'm interested in supervising postgraduate research in science and technology studies, particularly projects involving ethnographic research on any aspects of practices of technology design/production and consumption/use, and in the area of feminist technoscience, particularly with respect to information and communications technologies; robotics, artificial intelligence and the cyborg; human-computer interaction and new media. -
Jane Sunderland
I am interested in supervising doctoral work on most aspects of gender and language/discourse, including language/discourse as they pertain to language education, to children's fiction and to African contexts. In particular, I would be interested in supervising a doctoral project on the relationship between the Harry Potter series and boys' literacies. I am currently supervising three full-time students PhD and three part-time PhD students. The topics I am currently supervising include: - gender and swearing in Kuwaiti Arabic - gendered discourses around domestic responsibilities in a UK African disapora - changing gender representation in EFL textbooks in Hong Kong - EFL students' use of digital media in classroom learning - celebrity masculinity in Japanese newspapers - the reception of children's picturebooks featuring two-Mum and two-Dad families -
Amit Thakkar
Spanish and Latin American Literature and Film (masculinities, violence, irony,postcolonial theory, revolution). -
Carol Thomas
Disability Studies Sociology of Health and Illness / Medical Sociology (general) Cancer experiences End of lifeand palliative care Patient Experiences of theNational Health Serviceand other health care and therapy services. -
Richard Twine
I welcome docotoral research students in the following areas: Animal Studies - especially Animals and Biotechnology Post-dualistic ontology in Sociology Intersectionality - especially including the nonhuman The Political Economy of Animal Agriculture Gender Studies - Masculinities / Feminist Theory / Ecofeminism Posthumanism (critical) Food and Sustainability -
Imogen Tyler
I welcome PhD applications in any of my areas of research. Please feel free to contact me to discuss preliminary ideas for PhD proposals or postdoctoral applications. -
Jo Warin
I would be interested in receiving proposals on: The development of identity through the school years Parenting (especially with a focus on gender) The home-school relationship Gender issues in education (particularly those concerned with issues about male staff in early years education) Early childhood -
Ruth Wodak
I would be especially interested in supervising PhD candidates working in the following areas: (Critical) Discourse Studies (theories, methodologies) Identity Politics (individual, collective; national, transnational) Language and/in Politics Discrimination, Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Sexism in/via Discourse Analysis of (social) Media Commemoration; collective memories politics of the past Oganisational Discourses and Practices. -
Linda Woodhead
I am happy to consider proposals in the areas of: religion and society in modern societies, contemporary Christianity, religion and gender, everyday religion, religious change.
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