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Lisa Taylor is Reader in Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Leeds Beckett University, where she serves as Head of Subject and Head of Media. As a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she has established herself as a prominent scholar in cultural and media studies with a focus on social class, gender, space, and place.
Her research interests include:
- Media and cultural representations of social class, gender, space and place
- Autoethnography, affect and embodiment
- Leisure practices and lifestyle culture
- Deindustrialization and community studies
- Art and creative methods in social research
Dr. Taylor's work explores how identity and self-worth are entwined in media representations such as lifestyle media and factual welfare programming; quotidian spaces such as the 'ordinary' garden; and ex-industrial locales where demolition and spatial change impacts on local communities. She applies creative methods to address real-life problems in post-industrial areas where communities are eroded or divided, arguing for care provision as a means of community revaluation. Her research demonstrates an evolving trajectory from analyzing media representations to actively engaging with communities through participatory and artistic methods.
Her notable awards and recognitions include:
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Mid-career fellowship by the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in 2021
- Co-Investigator on a Leverhulme/BA project (2018-2020) examining space and place in stigmatizing benefits claimants
Dr. Taylor has received research funding for several significant projects, including the ISRF fellowship that enabled her to work collaboratively with a former textiles community and artist Catherine Bertola on the 'Landscapes of Loss: Revaluing Labour, Remaking Community' project. She is also an affiliate of the transnational partnership project DePOT (Deindustrialisation and the Politics of Our Time). Her teaching includes 'Media Theory' (level 5) and 'Human Obsolescence' (level 6) at undergraduate level.
She leads research teams through the Centre for Culture and Humanities at Leeds Beckett University, with current projects including 'Intertwining Threads' (a collaborative art project with ex-industrial carpet manufacturers in West Yorkshire), 'Spaces of Stigma; Spaces of Privilege,' and 'Sensing place: using mobile methods to reconnect to the spaces we live in,' which has transformed community perceptions of local places in West Yorkshire.
