Dr Jacqueline Gibbs joined the Department of Criminology and Sociology as Lecturer in Sociology in 2019. Her background is in the interdisciplinary social sciences and humanities – including Sociology, Gender studies, Media studies, Cultural Studies and Politics. She holds a BA in Sociology and Politics from the Australian National University, MA in Gender, Media and Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD in Gender from the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is a Fellow with the Higher Education Academy.
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Jacqueline is a Fellow with the Higher Education Academy, and has taught both undergraduate and Masters courses in Gender Studies, Sociology and Social Sciences.
She has previously taught postgraduate courses in gender theory and undergraduate courses in the social sciences and contemporary social issues, sociological concepts, skills and methods and social movements.
She has guest lectured on topics such as feminist research epistemologies and representation, politics and film.
SOC1275: Sociology in Action
SOC2272: Sociology of Social Change
SOC2277: Our Social World: Welfare, Care, Education and Housing in Contemporary Britain
SOC3280: Lifecourse, Health and Disability
SOC3270/CRM3270/CRM3271: Dissertation
Jacqueline's main area of research focus is critical analysis of mobilisations of vulnerability within political and cultural discourses. Her work has explored the workings of vulnerability in relationship to gender and sexuality, disability, illness and health, citizenship and UK austerity processes.
Her work is informed by intersectional gender, queer, cultural, and critical disability studies perspectives.
Jacqueline is also interested in critical pedagogies, with a particular focus on discourses and practices of inclusion in UK Higher Education.
Current areas of research interest include:
Critical analysis of vulnerability and feminist theorisations of vulnerability; affect/emotions in cultural politics; care and relationality; gender; disability and health; sexuality and representation. Other research interests include belonging, resistance, emotion and exclusion/inclusion in Higher Education.
Methodological approaches include:
Qualitative research methods, cultural studies approaches to discourse and representations; analysis of cultural and political discourse; film and media analysis.
Gibbs, Jacqueline and Hartviksen, Julia and Lehtonen, Aura and Spruce, Emma (2021) Pedagogies of inclusion: a critical exploration of small-group teaching practice in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education , 26 (5). pp. 696-711. ISSN 1356-2517
Gibbs, Jacqueline and Lehtonen, Aura (2021) Who can tell a working-class story? Examining the representational limits of class in I, Daniel Blake (2016) and beyond. The Sociological Review Online (Magazine) , Apr 21 . ISSN 2754-1371
Gibbs, Jacqueline and Lehtonen, Aura (2020) Teaching to resistance and refusal: feminist pedagogical engagements in the UK Higher Education classroom. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture , 5 (Winter). ISSN 2003-167X
Gibbs, Jacqueline and Lehtonen, Aura (2019) I, Daniel Blake (2016): vulnerability, care and citizenship in austerity politics. Feminist Review , 122 (1). pp. 49-63. ISSN 0141-7789
Co-PI on Research Facilitation Funding (RFF) project, a systematic literature review and critical discourse analysis of the framing of the 'student' in HE institutional EDI / decolonisation intiatives, January 2023-present
Co-PI on HEIF funded project ‘Student-led workshops using creative methods to gather qualitative data on belonging’, February 2021-July 2021
