Dr Lucy Jackson
Postdoctoral Research Associate
| Address: | 4th Floor, ICoSS Building |
| Telephone (internal): | 26283 |
| Telephone (UK): | 0114 222 6283 |
| Telephone (International): | +44 114 222 6283 |
| Email: | Lucy.Jackson@Sheffield.ac.uk |
Lucy studied Geography (BA Hons) at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduating with First Class Honours in 2006. She completed her MA in Practising Human Geography within IGES at UWA in 2008. Lucy gained her PhD from Aberystwyth University in July 2012.
Lucy’s primary research interest lies within the field of feminist geopolitics. Her PhD research project, entitled ‘Alternative sites of citizenship: emotions, performance and belonging for female migrants’ focused upon ideas of citizenship as a relational practice recognising it’s ever more social and cultural nature. This research looked into the everyday practices and performances of citizenship and sought to understand how identities are formed and developed through different contextual considerations. This research built on literatures that construe identity as a multi-faceted form of subjectivity, incorporating a complex series of understandings and feelings, as well as embodiments and practices. Her research concluded that citizenship has three fundamental dimensions:- as situated in and through communities, as emotionally laden, and as practiced and performed through aspects of everyday life.
Lucy’s PhD research focused upon two cases studies, South Wales and Singapore and whilst conducting this research, Lucy collaborated with a number of non-governmental and community organisations, including the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME-SG), Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2-SG ), Women Connect First (WCF-UK), and Displaced People In Action (DPIA-UK).
Research Interests |
Lucy’s broader research interests lie in the fields of citizenship, the emotional realm of identity, social difference, communities and belonging, civic and civil activism, the negotiation of scalar concepts in everyday life, inclusion and exclusion, and the performative dimensions of participation in/ via community action groups. Lucy is also interested in geographies of the state and everyday interactions, territorial assumptions and boundaries, the body, embodied and emotive research methods and research as lived experience. Lucy’s research seeks to be inter-disciplinary in nature, reaching across the social sciences. |
Current research |
Lucy works on the LIVEDIFFERENCE research programme. This project involves five inter-linked projects which explore the extent and nature of everyday encounters with ‘difference’, by each collecting original data in the UK and Poland. Lucy’s research with LIVEDIFFERENCE is conducted within Project C: Contested Spaces: Group Identities and Competing Rights in the City where she is specifically focussing on the spaces of conflict and interaction between pro-life and pro-choice groups in the UK. |
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Contact details |
4th Floor, ICoSS Building, |