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Lizzie Hughes

Positions held:
  • Associate Lecturer A, School of Social Sciences
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Lizzie Hughes is an interdisciplinary feminist researcher working across critical criminology, sociology, psychosocial, and gender and sexuality studies.

    Lizzie has a focused interest in surveillance and everyday social regulation, particularly in relation to gender, sexuality, and race. They draw on their work leading a community-based LGBTQI+ mental health project to enrich their academic research and pedagogical practice.

    Lizzie's PhD thesis examines contemporary U.K. transphobic discourse about women's public toilets using a transfeminist sensory framework. The thesis troubles understandings of surveillance and governance as technocentric and ocularcentric, instead arguing that everyday informal regulation involves a 'sensory surveillance' that is somatechnic. The project is supervised by Professor Sarah Lamble and Dr Nathan Moore and funded by UBEL ESRC.

    Currently at Birkbeck, Lizzie teaches undergraduate students and co-convenes a surveillance reading group. They have also worked as a research assistant on a cross-institutional project examining the governance of sex in U.K. prisons with colleagues at Birkbeck and Goldsmiths.

    Lizzie also sits on the board of the Surveillance Studies Network as an elected Members Representative.

    Qualifications

    • MSc, Gender Studies, LSE, UoL, 2017
    • MSc, Criminology, Birkbeck, UoL, 2019

    Professional activities

    Associate Member Representative, Surveillance Studies Network

    Professional memberships

    • Member, Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN)

    • Member, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)

    • Member, Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA)

    ORCID

    0000-0002-9574-9211
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Studies
    • Theories of Surveillance, Governance, and Control
    • Queer/Transfeminism(s)
    • Prisons and Abolition
    • Disability/Crip and Care Studies

    Research Centres and Institutes

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Psychology of Criminal Behaviour (LALA179S4)