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 Business, Arts and Social Sciences
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