Identities

The following people are in this group:

Professor Jo-Anne Baird Research Associate Tel. (0117) 331 4331 jo-anne.baird@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Tim Bond Professorial Teaching Fellow in Counselling Tel. (0117) 331 4485 tim.bond@bristol.ac.uk
Ms Laurinda Brown Senior Lecturer in Education (Mathematics) Tel. (0117) 331 4495 laurinda.brown@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Ruth Deakin Crick Reader Tel. (0117) 331 4338 ruth.deakin-crick@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Sibel Erduran Professor of Science Education Tel. (0117) 331 4340 sibel.erduran@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Kim Etherington Emeritus Professor kim.etherington@bristol.ac.uk
Ms Marina Gall Senior Lecturer Tel. (0117) 331 4316 marina.gall@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Frances Giampapa Lecturer in Education - TESOL/Applied Linguistics Tel. (0117) 331 4499 frances.giampapa@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Paul Howard-Jones Reader in Neuroscience and Education Tel. (0117) 331 4496 paul.howard-jones@bristol.ac.uk
Mrs Elisabeth Lazarus Senior Lecturer in Education (MFL) Tel. (0117) 331 4106 elisabeth.lazarus@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Lisa Lucas Senior Lecturer in Education Tel. (0117) 331 4351 lisa.lucas@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth McNess Senior Lecturer Tel. (0117) 331 4438 elizabeth.mcness@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Sara Meadows Senior Lecturer in Education Tel. (0117) 331 4487 sara.meadows@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Marilyn Osborn Emeritus Professor Tel. (0117) 331 4328 marilyn.osborn@bristol.ac.uk
Ms Vanda Papafilippou Education (PhD) edxvp@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Jo Rose Research Associate Tel. (0117) 331 4109 jo.rose@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Jane Speedy Emeritus Professor Tel. (0117) 331 4401 jane.speedy@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Rosamund Sutherland Professor of Education Tel. (0117) 331 4494 ros.sutherland@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Rachel Sutton-Spence Reader in Deaf Studies Tel. (0117) 331 4350 rachel.spence@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Sally Thomas Professor of Education Tel. (0117) 331 4382 s.thomas@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Sue Timmis Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning Tel. (0117) 331 4336 sue.timmis@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Sheila Trahar Reader in International Higher Education Tel. (0117) 331 4400 s.trahar@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Donna West Senior Associate Teacher Tel. (0117) 3314159 donna.west@bristol.ac.uk

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There is a long and outstanding tradition of research and scholarship within this field stretching across all aspects of the university’s activities. The identities research theme promotes synergy, develops capacity and maximises impact across a range of interrelated interdisciplinary research interests. The theme brings together interests in:

Challenging, conceptualising and theorising constructs of identity and of a multiplicity of identities
Negotiating, developing and performing professional, national, trans-national, cultural, religious, learning, digital and personal identities, as well as piecing together identities from the material cultures of ancient worlds and across time place and space
Investigating connexions between identity construction/deconstruction and other global forces, concepts and events such as patterns of migration, ecology, climate change and sustainability and experiences of trauma and warfare.

Currently a variety of different work is being undertaken, edited highlights include:

In the School of Geographical Sciences, Yvonne Whelan is currently researching the relationship between landscape memory and diasporic identity
In the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television, Jacqueline Maingard’s current work focuses on how identities are represented in the cinema
In the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos’s recent research explores the impact of increased visibility on the identity amongst the Embera peoples of Panama, and Tamar Hodos (together with Shelley Hales from the Department of Classics and Ancient History) has recently (2009) co-edited a book exploring the relationship between material cultures and social identities in the ancient world.
An interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, including Leon Tikly, from the Graduate School of Education Harriet Bradley from the Sociology Department and Simon Burgess from the Economics Department are conducting a pilot study into white working class learner identity and educational achievement within British schools.
Further identity research within the Graduate School of Education includes an exploration of learning, place and identity amongst indigenous Australian students (Ruth Deakin Crick) and an ongoing study of shifting identities within collaborative academic writing communities (Jane Speedy).

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