Dr Sharon Lockyer
Honorary Reader

Research supervision

Post-doctoral Supervision to Completion 

• Dr Rebecca Higgie: funded by an Endeavour Research Fellowship (Australian Government), 2015-2016
• Dr Christelle Pare: funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2016-2018

PhD Supervision to Completion    

• Nicole Kypker: Women, Comedy and Liberation: An Analysis of Representation of Second-Wave Feminism in the American Sitcom Genre 1970-2000; awarded 2020,  recipient of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Doctoral Research 2021
• Jaice Sara Titus: Yes! And...Between Freedom and Constraints in Improvisational Comedy; awarded 2021
• Adel Aldawsari: The Humor-Related Role of English Code-Switching in Arabic Scripted Monologic Acts (Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas); awarded 2019
• Christopher Molineux: The Role of Humour in the Evolution of Hominid Cognition and the Emergence of Language; awarded 2019
• Anna Tippett: Body Politics: A Critical Analysis of the Sexualisation of Popular Culture and the Rise of Lads’ Mags; awarded 2017
• Ghalib Al-Abadi: Re-Building a Nation-state: Iraq’s Reconstruction After Saddam; awarded 2017

Current PhD Supervision

• Scripted TV comedy and class
• Stand-up comedy and freedom of expression
• Science comedy in Nigeria
• Comedy and mental health
• Homelessness in Sitcoms
• Arts-based research, communication theory and identity politics