Staff researchers
Dr Harriet Atkinson is a design historian, who teaches history of art and design, critical and cultural studies.
Katy Beinart's current practice and research explores links between material culture, mobility and place, particularly looking at migrant memory.
Cathy Bergin's research focuses on the historical discourses of black Communist radicalism. She teaches in politics, philosophy and aesthetics.
Sue Breakell’s work engages with the nature, meaning and practice of archives and how they inform the history of 20th century art and design.
Dora Carpenter-Latiri has international research interests in language, linguistics and identity.
Dr Sam Carroll is a life historian and community historian with a particular research interest in British Postwar protest, memory and life stories.
Dr Carter researchers in anthropology and sport, with interests in the ethical social justice that focuses on the human body and the control of space.
Leila Dawney is a cultural and political theorist whose research interests include geographies of affect and embodied practice.
Graham Dawson is professor of Historical Cultural Studies, with seminal publications on the cultural memory of war and conflict. .
Nigel H Foxcroft lectures and researches in English and comparative literature. He is an authority on the writer Malcom Lowry.
Paul Gilchrist's research interests explore the historical, political, environmental and spatial dimensions of sport, leisure, and recreation.
Dr Grant Ferguson's research is in the field of Shakespeare and early modern English literature and culture, often in modern and postmodern contexts.
Andrew Hammond researches British fiction and travel writing; identity, imperialism and cross-cultural representation.
Dr Hayler's research draws upon analytic autoethnography and life history methods to examine issues of identity and pedagogy.
Christian's specialist focus of research concerns the life and work of the black radical Trinidadian intellectual and activist C.L.R. James.
Zeina Maasri lectures in critical history and politics with research specialisms in Middle East Studies and in global art and design history.
Dr Deborah Madden has published widely on religion, medicine, education and culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Tania's primary focus is on the history of midwifery and maternity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Patricia McManus is a lecturer in media and cultural history. She works with modern cultural practices and forms especially the history of the novel.
Eugene Michail works on contemporary European history, with special interests in transnational themes, popular culture, and conflict studies.
Dr Hilary Morris’s research interests include military medicine and the development of medical education
Dr Mousoutanis works across literature and media with expertise on apocalyptic fictions, fin-de-siecle cultures and the mediated experience of trauma.
Dr Palmer researches in identity, heritage and materiality with particular interest in post-conflict memorial landscapes and dark tourism.
Deborah Philips is a literacist and cultural historian with a special focus on narrative and storytelling across film, literature and popular culture
Annebella Pollen’s central interests include the history of mass photography, and utopian practices in design and dress.
Anita Rupprecht's primary research interests are in cultural and literary histories of British transatlantic slavery and abolition.
Rebecca Searle is a historian who lectures in the humanities and uses the study of the past to engage in the politics of the present.
Dr Aakanksha Virkar Yates researches and teaches nineteenth and twentieth century literature.
Research fellow Lesley Whitworth is a twentieth-century social historian whose primary focus is the shaping of material environments.
A photographer and anthropologist, Julia works through layers of physical and cultural geography, history and memory.
Abigail Wincott is a broadcaster and lecturer in media theory and production.
Dr Claire Wintle's research focuses on practices of curating and collections in the context of the politics of empire, nationalism and decolonisation.
