About
Elizabeth Reed (Lizzie) is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Southampton. Lizzie's work is orientated by cultural sociology and explores LGBTQ lives, queer kinship, everyday life, disability, childhood, and identity-making.
A note on PhD enquiries:
I am not currently accepting enquiries for PhD supervision. I do not accept proposals written using Generative AI or by/with application consultancies.
When I am able to consider enquiries, I am happy to hear from applicants proposing PhD research which fits into any of the following categories: proposes innovative queer methodologies; focuses on joy and liveability in the everday lives of LGBTQ+ people; addresses key theoretical debates in queer theory around the creation of concrete utopias and/or futurity in a climate crisis.
Research
Research interests
- Queer theory and methodologies
- Queer lives and intimate relationships
- LGBTQ community, identity and culture
- Childhood (especially in relation to digitial communities and technology)
- Sexuality and gender
Current research
Lizzie's current research includes a major AHRC funded project exploring how young people experience community and craft good lives through creativity, and an ongoing collaboration with multi-modal artist Milou Stella.
Lizzie's two most recently concluded research projects explored young people's use of TikTok and lesbian people's experiences in Southampton.
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Pagination
Teaching
I convene the first year core module Inequalities in Everyday Worlds, and the second and third year option modules, Gender and Society, and Sexuality and Intimacy. I teach across the deparment with particular interest in gender and queer theories, inequality, personal life, media and cultural representation, and queer methodologies
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Prior to joining Southampton in 2019, Lizzie was a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has also worked at the University of the West of England, and the University of Sussex in various teaching and research roles.