2025
Pinto, B. & Riesch, H. (2025) ‘Does Humor in Popular Science Magazine Articles Increase Information Retention and Receptiveness in Science Education?’, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society.
Weaver, S., & Lockyer, S. (2025) ‘Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(6): 1551–1569
2023
Lockyer, S. & De Benedictis, S. (2023) ‘Performing Pregnancy: Comic Content, Critique and Ambivalence in Pregnant Stand-up Comedy’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(3), pp. 343–361
2022
Lockyer, S. & Weaver, S. (2022) ‘On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25(5), pp. 645–657.
2021
Riesch, H. et al. (2021) ‘A Moment of Science, Please’, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 41(2–3), pp. 46–57.
2020
Lockyer, S. & Savigny, H. (2020) ‘Rape Jokes Aren’t Funny’, Feminist Media Studies, 20(3), pp. 434–449.
2019
Weaver, S. (2019) ‘Brexit Tricksters and the Reconstruction of Taboo’, Comedy Studies, 10(2), pp. 154–166.
2017
Mendel, J. & Riesch, H. (2017) ‘Gadflies Biting Science Communication’, Science Communication, 39(5), pp. 673–684.
Pinto, B. & Riesch, H. (2017) ‘Are audiences receptive to humour in popular science articles?’, Journal of Science Communication.
2016
Weaver, S. & Bradley, L. (2016) ‘Audience perceptions of anti-Muslim racism in The Dictator’, HUMOR, 29(2), pp. 279–300.
Weaver, S. & Mora, R.A. (2016) ‘Introduction: Tricksters, humour and activism’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19(5), pp. 479–485.
Weaver, S., Mora, R.A. & Morgan, K. (2016) ‘Introduction. Gender and humour’, Social Semiotics, 26(3), pp. 227–233.
Weaver, S. & Ozieranski, P. (2016) ‘New European tricksters’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19(5), pp. 577–591.
Lockyer, S. & Popa, D.E. (2016) ‘I Like the Metamorphosis of the Characters’. In International Journal of Communication, 10, pp. 20–41.
2015
Lockyer, S. (2015) ‘From Comedy Targets to Comedy-Makers’, Disability & Society, 30(9), pp. 1397–1412.
Lockyer, S. (2015) ‘It’s Really Scared of Disability’, Journal of Popular Television, 3(2), pp. 179–193.
Lockyer, S. (2015) ‘Performance, Expectation, Interaction and Intimacy’, Journal of Popular Culture, 48(3), pp. 586–603.
Mora, R.A., Weaver, S. & Lindo, L.M. (2015) ‘Editorial for special issue on education and humour’, European Journal of Humour Research, 3(4), pp. 1–8.
Riesch, H. (2015) ‘Why did the proton cross the road?’, Public Understanding of Science, 24(7), pp. 768–775.
Weaver, S. (2015) ‘The rhetoric of disparagement humor’, HUMOR, 28(2), pp. 327–347.
2012
Weaver, S. (2012) ‘A rhetorical discourse analysis of online anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic jokes’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(3), pp. 483–499.
2011
Lockyer, S. (2011) ‘From Toothpick Legs to Dropping Vaginas’, Comedy Studies, 2(2), pp. 113–123.
Lockyer, S. & Myers, L. (2011) ‘It’s About Expecting the Unexpected’ Live Stand-up Comedy from the Audiences' Perspective', Participations, 8(2), pp. 165–188.
Weaver, S. (2011) ‘Jokes, rhetoric and embodied racism: a rhetorical discourse analysis of the logics of racist jokes on the internet', Ethnicities, 11(4), pp. 413–435.
Weaver, S. (2011) ‘Liquid Racism and the Ambiguity of Ali G’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(3), pp. 249–264.
Weaver, S. (2011) ‘Definitions of the humorous in Chris Rock and Russell Peters fan blogs: A discussion of the problem of incongruity’, Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 8(2): 257–275.
King, G. (2011) ‘Striking a Balance Between Culture and Fun: quality meets hitman genre in In Bruges', New Review of Film and Television Studies, 9(2), pp. 132–151.
2010
Hunt, L., (2010) ‘Near the Knuckle? It nearly took my arm off! British Comedy and the “New Offensiveness”, Comedy Studies pp.181-189. ISSN 2040-610x.
Lockyer, S. (2010) ‘Dynamics of Social Class Contempt in Contemporary British television comedy’, Social Semiotics, 20(2), pp. 121–138
Weaver, S. (2010) ‘Developing a Rhetorical Analysis of Racist Humour: Examining Anti-black Jokes on the Internet’, Social Semiotics 20(5): 537-555.
Weaver, S. (2010)‘The Reverse Discourse and Resistance of Asian Comedians in the West’, Comedy Studies 1(2): 149-157.
Weaver, S. (2010) ‘Liquid Racism and the Danish Prophet Muhammad Cartoons’, Current Sociology 58(5): 675-692.
Weaver, S. (2010) ‘The ‘Other’ Laughs Back: Humour and Resistance in Anti-Racist Comedy’, Sociology 44(1): 31-48.
2009
Chow, BDV (2009) ‘Situations, Happenings, Gatherings, Laughter: Emergent British Stand-up Comedy in Sociopolitical Context’. In Malarcher, J. (ed.) Comedy Tonight! Theatre Symposium Series Vol. 16. Alabama: University of Alabama Press, pp. 121-134.
Lockyer, S., & Attwood, F. (2009) ‘“The Sickest Television Show Ever”: Paedogeddon and the British Press’, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 7(1): 49–60.
Wilkin, P. (2009) ‘(Tory) Anarchy in the UK: the Very Peculiar Practice of Tory Anarchism’, Journal of Anarchist Studies, 17(1), pp. 22–44.
2008
Roberts, J.M. (2008) ‘Expressive Free Speech’, Social Movement Studies, 7(2), pp. 101–119.
Lockyer, S., & Pickering, M. (2008) You Must Be Joking: The Sociological Critique of Humour and Comic Media, Sociology Compass, 2(3): 808-820.
2004
Roberts, J.M. (2004) ‘From Populist to Political Dialogue’, Cultural Studies, 18(6), pp. 884–910.