Identities
The Identities research theme provides a coordinating network for the wealth of interdisciplinary identities research taking place across 31 schools and departments within the faculties of Arts, Medicine and Dentistry, Science and Social Sciences and Law.
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.
The Identities theme is led by
Dr Jane Speedy.
Advisory Group
- Jacqueline Maingard (Drama: Theatre, Film and Television)
- Silke Knippschild (Classics and Ancient History)
- Tamar Hodos (Archaelogy and Anthropology)
- Sue Porter, School for Policy studies (Newsletter coordinator)
- Ann Rippin (Economics, Finance and Management)
- Jane Reece, EdD student (Graduate School of Education)
- Ros Sutherland (Graduate School of Education)
- Rachel Sutton-Spence (Graduate School of Education)
- Donna West (Graduate School of Education)
Theme Members and Interests
Identities Research Theme Members
Members' Areas of Interest
