I am colead supervisor for a PhD candidate who is researching gender creative parenting using creative research methods. I am also third supervisor for a TECHNE funded PhD candidate, whose research explores heritage visbility for gender diverse young people in the Traveller, Gypsy and Romany (GRT) community.

I am interested in supervising PhD projects in body image generally, or any specific (critical) body image research relating to inequalities (e.g., social class, gender and sexuality, 'race'/ethnicity), discrimination (e.g., sexism/genderism, racism, homophobia/transphobia) and power dynamics colonialism, white supremacy).

Doctoral projects that I currently supervise (as part of a team) include:

- A project examining sexual orientation and career-related decisions amongst gay and bisexual men in South Asian.

- A project on understanding social class in young people's educational experiences in the UK.

I am particularly interested in supervising and providing mentorship in accessing PhD programmes for individuals from Minoritised backgrounds.

I am able to supervise doctoral research across the fields of sociology, cultural studies, and politics as they pertain to sport, physical education, fitness, and related fields. However, I am particularly interested in sociological studies of the following specialist topics:

• Martial arts and combat sports
• Sport-related violence
• Risk, injury and medical care in sport
• Consent in sport

Alex's supervisory interests include historical and contemporary work on fashion, (un)sustainability and consumption - in particular research that seeks to contribute to decolonial futures by creating alternative knowledge to dominant Western-centric, technology-driven understandings of sustainability; visual and material culture approaches to environmental history and environmental humanities; historical research on alternative consumption practices; historical and practice-based work on gender studies and queer crafts.

I am interested in supervising students in the following disciplines (or combination of these):

- language, gender and sexuality (representation, production)

- corpus linguistics

- multimodality

- discourses around racism, sexism, transphobia and homophobia

- language describing violence against women in UK and other parts of the world.

When you contact me, please do send a detailed proposal with literature background and methodology (data and methods) in English. Unfortunately, I am not able to offer scholarships but TECHNE or CTGS regularly advertise calls.

Please do contact me if you are interested in spending a visiting period for your PhD research. 

A Master student who I supervised in the a.y. 2019/2020 has recently won the Best Student Essay at the IGALA11 CONFERENCE (International gender and language association), Queen's Mary 2021.

I welcome PhD projects related to any of my research interests. I am particularly interested in working on projects related to: the intersections between psychoanalysis and Marxism, in particular socialist-feminism; the work of Donald Winnicott and related theorists; psychoanalytic feminist theory and philosophy; gender, sexuality and kinship; and the politics of reproduction and care. More broadly, I am interested in working on projects related to psychoanalysis as it intersects with cultural, social and political questions and debates. This includes studies focused on literature, visual culture, Critical Theory, philosophy, history or politics. I am also interested in supervising projects in the field of Critical Theory that relate to the themes of care, reproduction, gender, sexuality or feminism.

My background is in Cultural Studies, with expertise in sexual cultures, popular culture, cultural politics and gender studies. I have published extensively on questions of queer culture, gender politics, porn studies, identity politics and cultural and media theory. I have extensive PhD superivsory and examining expertise, across a wide range of interdisciplinary areas in Cultural Studies, including practice-based projects in creative writing, public engagement, and PhD by publication. Current PhD students I'm supervising are working on critical approaches to questions of participation; cultural politics and the housing crisis; brand self-management and beauty vlogging. I love working with PhD students, and would welcome enquries from anyone interested in developing a project in any of the areas referred to here. 

I'm interested in supervising postgrad projects in (but not limited to) the following areas: sexual politics outside the metropolis; social and cultural geographies of fat men; Participatory Action Research with LGBTQ communities; and Bear subcultures and spaces.

Chrystie supervises six PhD students and has three PhD student completions. She is happy to be contacted by prospective students who plan to investigate politics and discourse, likely through discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, queer linguistics, conversation analysis, or multimodal discourse analysis. 

Broad areas of inquiry might include (and overlap on):

• desire and pleasure
• gender and sexualities
• power, violence, and justice
• politics of language/political language
• identities and intersectionality
• norms and belonging

I would be happy to talk to students about PhD projects on any aspect of LGBTQ+ literature and cultural production, queer theory and sexuality studies. I would also welcome enquiries about projects in children’s literature and culture, including those concerned with questions of power, temporality and kinship, theories and representations of adolescence and maturity, and projects on the intersections of literature, performance and pop.  

Current PhD students

• Arthur Gaillard - Production of knowledge in Sport for Development
• Diroshi Neththikumara Haththellage - Being a woman in Sri Lanka; a phenomenological approach

I am interested in supervising Masters and PhD students in all areas of health psychology, health promotion, and public health. Particular interests include:

• preterm birth and its impact on families;
• parents' experiences of participating in neonatal trials;
• sexual and reproductove health;
• maternal mental health.

I am interested in supervising PhD candidates in a number of public health and health promotion areas. My current research (see profile) includes a global project on health services during CV-19, European research on syphilis, substance (mis)use, and LGBTI inequalities taking an international perspective. PhD candidates are welcome to contact me to develop PhD projects around these areas, but also any of the below:

• Sexual health (including HIV and other STIs) and sexual orientation
• Access to health and social care services for ‘vulnerable’ populations
• Healthy public policy and health inequalities
• Mental health
• Parenthood (including fathers supporting breastfeeding)
• Young people
• LGBT lives
• Tackling stigma and discrimination
• Gender identities (masculinities and femininities)
• Peer group cultures
• Sexual assault/gender based violence/intimate partner violence

I also supervise candidates for PhD by publication and welcome applications/enquiries

My research areas are law, criminology, and gender studies. I am particularly interested in supervising students looking at any of the following: hate crime and hate crime victimisation, domestic and sexual violence, gender and criminal law, gender and the family, online interpersonal crime, online misogyny, online hate crime, feminist theory and methods, LGBTQI+ experiences. I am also interested in the use of innovative research methods.

I am willing to consider cross-disciplinary PhD supervision, and internal or external cross-department supervision.

I thoroughly enjoy the experience of supervising student research projects and have done so since working in academia in 2010. I am open to a variety of topics, including those that would fall under the umbrella of illuminating the Dark Side of Occupation. 

I have supervised and co-supervised BSc (OT), Pre-Registration and Advanced Professional Practice MSc (OT, Physiotherapy, and Paramedic), and PhD level research projects, with topics including:

• An exploration of the meaning of food-related occupations for individuals with lived experience of anorexia
• Exploration of the subjective occupational experience of a European male living with HIV/AIDs
• Childhood occupations during bereavement
• How do learning disabled adults experience leisure activities?
• The lived experience of fatherhood through the Covid-19 pandemic
• Smoking as an occupation
• Sex as work
• Specialist Paramedics perceptions of factors influencing their clinical decision making
• Opinion of the MDT regarding the role of rehabilitation for people with a functional neurological disorder
• Factors which contribute to older people living in the community choosing to sleep in a chair
• Occupations during ‘Freshers’
• Student’s timeuse of Facebook
• Initial scoping review of literature re: the dark side of occupation
• Occupational therapy for community dwelling elderly people
• Impact of trauma amongst firefighters
• Student’s exploration of maladaptive occupations, such as substance use
• A systematic review of literature exploring the links between occupation, identity, and well-being.
• The lived experience of fathers during the 2020/21 Covid-19 pandemic
• Revisiting Karen Whalley Hammell’s exploration of the core assumptions that have underpinned theories of human occupation
• The lived experiences of UK occupational therapists whoaddress sex and intimacy with the people with whom they work
• The lived experiences of doing, being, becoming, and belonging for second generation adults who disaffiliate from a New Religious Movement

I have been lead supervisor for a completed doctoral (PhD) student; I feel my experience of the doctoral journey and supervisory relationship, coupled with externally examining a professional doctorate (ProfDoc), and also co-editing a text with Professor Gayle Letherby regarding the doctoral journey (The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience) has well-prepared me for this.

This range of experience is something I can bring to the supervisor-supervisee/s relationship, which is a critical relationship that depends on realistic expectations being clearly stated, and mutual respect.

I would be happy to talk to students about PhD projects in contemporary literature, cultural and queer studies.

Specific areas might include:

• Black British Literature and Culture
• BrexLit
• European Literature
• Postcolonialism
• Postcommunism
• Literary and media representations of migration and specifically 'Eastern European' migration
• LGBTQIA+ Literature

My current supervision includes the following PhD projects:

(COMPLETED) Kadija George, Raising the voice and visibility of independent Black publishers (TECHNE-funded) http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/techne/for-students/techne-students/techne-students/techne-students-2016/george

Najma Yusufi, "Leave To Remain” (novel) and Hybridity in British Asian writing post-Brexit, https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/najma-yusufi

Amanda Holiday, 'Poetry, Race and Art' (TECHNE-funded), https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/amanda-holiday

Veneta Neale, 'This is our History: Diasporic Feminist Black British History'.

Hanna Komar (TECHNE-funded), 'Supporting Belarusian women to share experiences of gender-based violence and patriarchy using poetry: an autoethnographic approach' 

Thomas Hull (TECHNE-funded), 'Nineteenth-Century Ambivalence and the Gendered Body: A Practice-Based Study of Dr James Barry'

Supervision support can be provided to PhD students who are interested in queer theory, poststructuralism, the application of critical social theory, new materialism, intersectionality and feminist theory in health-related research. Focus areas include LGBTQ+ health and healthcare, health inequalities, resilience, trans health and mental health promotion with the aim to achieve greater health equity. PhD students she has supervised to completion have worked on studies employing critical social theories, new materialism and qualitative creative methods. She has examined PhD/Professional Doctorate studies at universities in the UK and further afield.  

Current PhD students 

• Sacha Mead, Aile Trumm; Sebastian Beaumont, Elisavet Anastasiadi and Mike Phillips. 

Former PhD students (PhD completions)

• Esther Omotola Ayoola, Amy Middleton, H Howitt, Kim Brown, Tracey Harding, Adam Kincel, Jens Schneider.

I am interested in supervising a number of topics rooted in the disciplines of Critical Social Psychology, Critical Community Psychology, and Discursive Psychology, with a transdisciplinary ethos. Broad areas are: non-normative sexualities, religious and ideological discourses, nature and sustainability. For example:

- Non-normative sexualities, LGBTI+ issues

- Sex work, sex workers, and intersectionalities

- Religious and ideological discourses on sexuality

- Transdisciplinary approaches to sexuality and gender

- Permaculture, Transition Towns, group dynamics, grass-root social movements

- Transdisciplinary approaches to environmental crisis, peak oil, and climate change

- Non-clinical approaches to mental health

- Values of space in shaping people’s social identities

- Critical Community Psychology

- Critical Social Psychology, and Discursive Psychology