London South Bank University

Faculty Member, Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research

Professor in Social and Policy Studies, Head of the Weeks Centre

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

About

My areas of interest are in the interconnections between class, gender and sexuality, manifest in two recent books: Taylor, Y. (2007) Working-Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders. PalgraveMacmillan and, based on British Academy funded research, Taylor, Y. (2009) Lesbian and Gay Parents: Social and Educational Capitals. PalgraveMacmillan. I  edited a Special Issue of Sexualities ('Sexuality and Class', Feb 2011) and  two collections: 'Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges' (Ashgate, 2010) and 'Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality' (PalgraveMacmillan, 2010). I am currently editing Educational Diversity (PalgraveMacmillan) and co-editing Sexualities: Reflections and Futures (PalgraveMacmillan)

I recently completed ESRC funded research on the intersections of class and gender in women’s lives in the North East of England (2007-09), published as  Taylor,Y. (2012) Fitting into place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (Ashgate). I continue with my research on social class in Higher Education (C-SAP funded); lesbian&gay socio-spatial sites (British Academy funded, 2009-2011); interdisciplinary designer-researcher engagements; and collaboration in the ESRC funded 'Living Identities: Exploring Identities via Filmmaking' (with the Research Centre on Film and Digital Media). I have started a new ESRC standard grant (£149,641)'Making space for queer identifying religious youth’ (July 2011-Dec 2012). My optional (3rd yr) courses include 'Intimacies: Relations, Exchanges, Affects' and 'Class: Continuations and Transformations'. I am the recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Scholars Award, Rutgers (2010-2011) and participated in a 'Happiness' reading group at the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers. One to World Global Classroom teacher (Brooklyn and Queens, New York,2010-2011). 

New MA in Gender and Sexuality:
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahs/research/weeks.shtml


I am really interested in supervising PhD projects on e.g:
-Gender
- Sexuality
- Intimacies, Relationships, Families
- Citizenship, recognition and social movements
-Feminist Theory
-Regeneration, Urban-Rural, Regionalism
-Education
-Class

I am the named mentor on an ESRC postdoctoral award (2011) ‘Queer lives and urban space: from Russia to the new Europe’ and have one successfully completed student (ESRC funded) Rachel Jones ‘Gay Men and Lesbians’ Perceptions of the Family’ (pass with minor corrections, 2010). I currently supervise two full-time ESRC funded PhD students: Vicky Mountford, ‘Higher Education in the North East: Exploring Intersections of Class and Gender’; Michelle Addison, ‘Class, Gender and Emotion in the contemporary workplace’. I also co-supervise Neil Adams ‘Rural regions in Europe in the context of the territorial cohesion agenda'  and ISSR funded students Jaya Gajparia ‘Girls child poverty in India’, Ellis Ciruello ‘Transgender Lives' and  Jill Wilkens ‘Civil Partnership and Lived Realities’.

Previously co-supervised 1+3 PhDs ‘Intersections between Age and Sexuality’ and ‘A comparative study of access to postgraduate study in the UK and the EU. I run postgraduate workshops on ‘Intersectionality’ and ‘Feminist Epistemology’ and have supervised UG and Masters Dissertations since 2004.

UG feedback for 'Class: Transformations and Continuations': : '…Some personal favourites included Class Continuations and Transformations… The subject matter of both these modules provided thought provoking lectures, seminars and reading material.' (see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/sociology/about/alumni/kirsty_morrin.htm)


PI ESRC Seminar Series: Critical Diversities@ the Intersection: Policies, Practices, Perspectives (2012-2014, with Sally Hines (Co-I)£15,000)

Advisory Panel Member of the ESRC funded project ‘Enduring Love? Couple relationships in the 21st Century’ (co-directed by Dr Janet Fink and Dr Jacqui Gabb: www.enduringlove.co.uk)

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