Humanities and Social Science
Summary of studentship areas on this page
The School of Humanities and Social Science invites applications in the following areas:
Decolonisation, Black British history and cultures and anti-racist research practice
Examples include: wellbeing and counselling; decolonising Shakespeare; criminalisation of Black music, Black literature, decolonising research
Supervisors
Amy Clarke
Charlotte Wilcox
Deanna Dadusc
Dwight Turner
Francesca Burke
Joanna Kellond
Jon Watson
Kanwal Mand
Lambros Fatsis
Roxana Cavalcanti
Vy Rajapillai
Yaa Asare
Jo Pilcher (Art and Media)
Marlon Moncrieffe (Education)
Examples include: research focused on Latin America and India, walking as method to explore, housing, poverty, work, sweatshops, commoning, forced migration and refugees, rural inequality, designing for just communities, circular economies arts-based approaches to lived experiences of marginalised groups including LGBTQI+ individuals, people with dementia, urban working-class youth, refugees and ethnic minorities.
Supervisors
Anthony Leaker
Deanna Dadusc
Dwight Turner
Lambros Fatsis
Michael Neu
Robin Jervis
Sarah Leaney
Vasileios Leontitsis
Quantitative psychology
Examples include: eye-tracking, physiological measurement, sleep analysis
Supervisors
Antony Hughes
Charlie Lea
David Harley
Donna Ewing
Emma Anderson
Gemma Graham
Hannah Cassidy
Julie Morgan
Kerry Fox
Rebecca Grist
Sara Balouch
Shanu Sadhwani
Childhood studies with psychology sociological/linguistics/visual and textual storytelling approaches
Examples include: use of illustration in literacy and early childhood language learning; childhood and wellbeing in the context of a changing climate; baby sign language and early speech and language development; children’s retelling of stories and their autobiographical storytelling
Supervisors
Antony Hughes
Donna Ewing
Hannah Cassidy
Jelena Timotijevic
Joseph Ronan
Kanwal Mand
Ross Adamson
Sarah Leaney
Simone Bol
Zoe Flack
Gender and sexuality
Examples include: LGBTQ+ wellbeing, gender-based violence; bisexualities and sexual and mental health/wellbeing; ageing among LGBTQ+ people
Supervisors
Ceren Ozpinar
Charlotte Wilcox
James Ravenhill
John McCullough
Kirsty McGregor
Kyla Ellis-Sloan
Lizzie Ward
Rebecca Graber
Zoë Boden-Stuart
Joseph Ronan
Bex Twinley (Sport and Health Sciences)
Digital humanities/ sociology/ psychology/ politics/ criminology
Examples include: digital archives of art and design; digital wellbeing using VR
Supervisors
David Harley
Francesca Burke
Linda Tip
Mary Darking
Natalie Pitimson
Rebecca Grist
Ross Adamson
Sue Breakell
Intergenerational justice
Examples include: ageing relationships from younger to older people, intergenerational solidarities, art-based approaches to generation, human and non-human justice
Supervisors
Amy Clarke
Lizzie Ward
Michael Neu
Shanu Sadhwani
Rebecca Graber
Zoe Flack
Sarah Leaney
Kanwal Mand
Activist Futures
Examples include: climate activism, indigeneity and the politics of race; performance and climate change activism: local/global perspectives
Supervisors
Deanna Dadusc
Francesca Burke
Lambros Fatsis
Roxana Cavalcanti
Robin Jervis
Christian Hogsbjerg
Nicola Ashmore (Art and Media)
Memory and memorialisation
Examples include: cultural and individual memory, wellbeing, memory and performance: spaces, bodies, texts
Supervisors
Ceren Ozpinar
Hannah Thurston
Harriet Atkinson
Natalie Pitimson
Nicola Ashmore (Art and Media)
Nicola Clewer
Sue Breakell
Verity Clarkson
Veronica Isaac
Victoria Margree
Christian Hogsbjerg
Jo-Anne Lester (Sport and Health Sciences)
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