Dr Sharon Lockyer
Honorary Reader
Marie Jahoda 218
- Email: sharon.lockyer@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267373
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
Membership and affiliation
- Academic Consultant for: Victoria and Albert Museum, Facebook; ITV Britbox; National Theatre (New Work Department), Big Difference Company, AM Digital
- President, International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) (2022-2024)
- Past President, International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) (2024-2026)
- Elected Executive Board Member-at-Large, International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) (2016-2019)
- AHRC Peer Review College Member (2017-present)
- 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: British Socioloigal Association (BSA); 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