- Research Associate in Sociology of Relationships and Personal Life, University of Manchester
I am an interdisciplinary scholar working primarily in sociology, although I have a background in cultural studies. I am interested in relationships and personal life, with a focus on alone-time, relationship breakdown and intimacy.
My PhD was earned at The University of Manchester; my thesis explored sexuality in visual culture. I have published on a range of relationships and practices of relationships, including retreat-going, sex and sexual fetishism, divorce, and queer theory.
I am a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.
Experience
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–presentResearch Associate in Sociology of Relationships and Personal Life, University of Manchester
Education
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2012University of Manchester, PhD
Publications
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2022Sociology, Lying and Time in Dementia
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2021The Sociological Review, Potent connections, mystery-work and the relational nature of retreat-going
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2021Modern Divorce, Dissolution, divorce and changing practices of commitment
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2021Sexualities, Public sex, private intimacy and sexual exclusivity in men’s formalised same-sex relationships
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2021Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Considering Fetishism in João Pedro Rodrigues’s O Fantasma
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2019Journal of Lusophone Studies, Selfish Mysticism, Queer Utopias: ‘Homo-ness’ in Carlos Hugo Christensen’s O menino e o vento
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2018Via Atlantica, ‘Você Quase Ganhou Um Orquídea Viva!’: Dissimulação Queer e Desejo Homossocial em Os Cafajestes de Ruy Guerra
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2018Dementia, Broadening the debate on creativity and dementia: A critical approach
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2018Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, Possibilities for queer revolution in Glauber Rocha’s Barravento/The Turning Wind (1962)
Professional Memberships
- British Sociological Association
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