Brunel Gender and Sexuality Research Centre: Members

Name / Department / Institute	Areas of interest
Pam Alldred Senior Lecturer (Youth Work Studies) School of Health Sciences and Social Care Brunel University
Rose Atfield Senior Lecturer (English) School of Arts Brunel University
Julie Barnett Reader in Healthcare Research Information Systems and Computing Brunel University
Celia Breyfield Reader Center for Creative Writing Brunel University
Michelle Buchberger (Franklin University) Program Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Department of Humanities and Communication Arts Franklin University
Susan Buckingham Professor and Director of Division of Social Work School of Health Sciences and Social Care Brunel University
Dr Andrea Capiluppi Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University
Giselle Corincigh Lecturer (Health Studies) School of Health Sciences and Social Care Brunel University
Jessica Cox Lecturer (English) School of Arts Brunel University	Jessica Cox is a lecturer in English in the School of Arts. She has research interests in first-wave feminism, Victorian sensation fiction, the New Woman, Neo-Victorianism and postfeminism.
Fin Cullen Lecturer (Youth & Community Work) School of Health Sciences and Social Care Brunel University
Filippo Del Lucchese Lecturer (History of Political Thought) School of Social Sciences Brunel University
Bridget Dibb (Lecturer; Psychology) Lecturer (Psychology) School of Social Sciences Brunel University
Enver Ethemer Research Student (Politics and History) School of Social Sciences Brunel University
Elizabeth Evenden Lecturer (English) School of Arts Brunel University	Elizabeth Evenden is a lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Book History at Brunel University. She is also convenor of the Religious History of Britain Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London. Elizabeth specialises in book history and bibliography. Her recent publications have focused on the creation and publication of one of the most famous and complex books in book history: John Foxe's Acts and Monuments (popularly known as his "Book of Martyrs").
Sarah Harman PhD Candidate, Screen Media Research Centre, (School of Arts )	Sarah Harman's research has the working title of 'Returning to Roissy: Femininity, Feminism, Submission and Masochism in adaptations of The Story of O' and she has presented papers at international multi-disciplinary conferences on the subject of femininity and film. She is assistant editor of Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, and contributing co-editor of Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches To A Cinematic Phenomenon (I. B. Tauris, forthcoming 2013) and a forthcoming journal special issue for Sexualities on Fifty Shades of Grey. She is also a member of the Onscenity Research Network and was co-organiser of the 2012 Sexual Cultures conference held at Brunel. Research interests include: Feminism; Gender; Sexuality; Sexual Perversion; Adaptations; Film; Television and Pornography.
Laura Hills Senior Lecturer (Youth sports science) School of Sport and Education Brunel University
Nick Hubble Senior Lecturer (English) School of Arts Brunel University
Deborah Jones Reader (Education) School of Sport and Education Brunel University
Wendy Knepper Lecturer (English) School of Arts Brunel University	Wendy Knepper is a Lecturer in English at Brunel University. Her research focuses on queer theory, postfeminist perspectives, and masculinity studies in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, especially in the context of transationalism, postcoloniality, and globalisation.
Savita Kumra Senior Lecturer (Business) Brunel Business School Brunel University	Savita's key research interests focus on diversity, the gendered nature of the career development process in the professional services and the importance of developing and deploying key career enhancement strategies, e.g. impression management, and building and leveraging social capital.
Jo Machon Lecturer (Drama) School of Arts Brunel University
Dr Catherine Meads Reader in Health Technology Assessment Brunel University	Catherine has published systematic reviews and HTAs in a wide variety of health topics including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health. She has been conducting research into LGBT health since 1992. Her work in this area includes publications, lectures to undergraduate medical students, an award-winning elearning package for GPs and input to steering committees for LGBT health conferences. One of her systematic reviews was instrumental in obtaining funding for a specialist LGBT health centre currently being set up in Birmingham.
Heather Mendick	Heather is a Reader in Education. She’s interested in learning in its broadest sense including intersections of class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity in education, aspirations and choices, mathematics education and popular culture. Her current work is focused on the role of celebrity in young people’s aspirations
Jago Morrison Senior Lecturer (English) School of Arts Brunel University
Sarah Niblock Reader (Journalism) School of Arts Brunel University
Daniel Rhind Lecturer (Youth Sport) School of Sport and Education Brunel University
Rachel Ritchie Associate Research Fellow School of Social Sciences Brunel University	Research interests include post-war Britain, gender, modernity, women's magazines, women's organisations, fashion, beauty, interior design and decoration, home-dressmaking and crafts.
Ruth Simpson Professor (Business) Brunel Businss School Brunel University
William Spurlin Professor (English) School of Arts Brunel University	William J Spurlin is Professor of English at Brunel; formerly he was Professor of English at the University of Sussex where he directed the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence & Cultural Change for five years. His research is situated at the nexus of queer, feminist, and postcolonial studies, as well as twentieth-century comparative literature and critical/cultural theory.
Serena Volpi Research Student (English) School of Arts Brunel University	Serena is a PhD student at the Department of English. She has attended postgraduate courses and summer schools at the Women Studies Department at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research interests are related to ethnographies and novels by African American women anthropologists working in the US and in the Caribbean during the first half of the Twentieth century.
Caryn Voskuil Professor (English) American University in Bosnia & Herzegovina
Jennifer Walshe Reader (Music) School of Arts Brunel University
Milly Williamson Senior Lecturer (Film and TV) School of Arts Brunel University
Yangmen Xu Lecturer (Engineering and Design) School of Engineering and Design Brunel University