Dr Sharon Lockyer
Associate Dean – Equality & Diversity (Students) / Reader - Sociology & Communications

Membership and affiliation

• Academic Consultant for: Victoria and Albert Museum, Facebook; ITV Britbox; National Theatre (New Work Department), Big Difference Company
• Elected Executive Board Member-at-Large, International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) (2016-2019)
• AHRC Peer Review College Member (2017-2022)
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Mentor for the Feminist Studies Association (FSA)
• Founding Co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Comedy book series (2014-present; with Professor Roger Sabin)
• Journal Editorial Board Membership: Comedy Studies (2010-present); Humor: International Journal of Humor Research (2012-present); International Studies in Humour (2013-present)
• International Advisory Board Member: European Journal of Humour Research (2012-present)
• Book Editorial Board Membership: Topics in Humour Research Book Series (2013-present); Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (published by Sage, 2014)
• Advisory Committee member of Research Centre for Comic and Popular Performance, University of Kent (2015-2019)
• Research Consultancy for: AHRC; British Academy; ESRC; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO); National Science Centre – Poland (Narodowe Centrum Nauki – NCN)  
• Manuscript and Book Proposal Consultancy for: Routledge; Sage
• Convenor of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Sociology of Media Study Group (2000-2007)
• Member of: Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), including the Women's Media Studies Network and the Disability Studies Network; International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS); Feminist Studies Association (FSA)

Media interests

Equality and diversity in the cultural and creative industries; comedy controversies; live and mediated comedy; popular culture