Dr Sharon Lockyer
Associate Dean – Equality & Diversity (Students) / Reader - Sociology & Communications
Marie Jahoda 218
- Email: sharon.lockyer@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267373
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Topics
PhD enquires are welcome in the areas of critical comedy studies; media, gender and class; media disability studies; media controversies from both quantitative and qualitative methodological perspectives.
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. Recipeint of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Doctoral Research 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
- Psychoanalysis and Improvisation Comedy
- Homelessness in Sitcoms
- Trans and Disability
- Arts-based Research, Communication Theory and Identity Politics