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Dr Edward Loveman is an Assistant Professor and Researcher in the School for Cross-faculty Studies at the University of Warwick. They hold a PhD in Sport & Event Management from Bournemouth University, an MRes in Sociology, and a BA (Hons) in Sport & Social Science, both from the University of Bath.
Edward employs an integrative pedagogy that combines knowledge-based learning with experiential activities like visual projects and creative experiments. Their learner-centered approach focuses on inclusive curriculum design and connecting academic concepts to real-world challenges in sustainable development and social design. They teach modules including DI105: Visual Practice and Curiosity, GD106: Social Principles of Global Sustainable Development, and GD912: Popular Movements and Sustainable Change.
Edward's research explores being and belonging through two interconnected strands: critical analysis of sport/leisure's socio-cultural dimensions, and alternative narratives through myth, play, and mysticism. Their interdisciplinary work advocates for radical scholarship using creative methods to challenge dominant paradigms. Publications consistently address themes of identity formation, media ethnography, cultural politics in sport, and critical leisure studies, often employing autoethnographic and experimental methodologies.
Edward currently supervises three postgraduate students:
- Alice Davidson (MASc, completed): 'Using Photo-Elicitation To Make Visible Women’s Everyday, Embodied Experiences Of The Manosphere' (2024 Capstone Award Winner)
- Hannah Micuta (MASc, in progress): 'Worlds of injustice: How Syngenta perpetuates slow violence'
- Ilaria Ravazzolo (PhD, in progress): 'Cooking Identity: A Gastrofeminist Study of (Grand)Mothers, Belonging and National Identity'
