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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 currently a criminology PhD student funded by UBEL-ESRC.

    Lizzie's thesis examines contemporary U.K. transphobic discourse about the gender-segregated bathroom using a transfeminist sensory framework. The thesis seeks to trouble 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 Dr Sarah Lamble and Dr Nathan Moore.

    At Birkbeck, Lizzie teaches undergraduate students and co-convenes a surveillance reading group.

    Outside of academia, Lizzie runs a LGBTIQ+ community-led mental health project in North London and is involved in various community projects.

    Qualifications

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

    Web profiles

    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

    • Crime, Inequality and Social Change (LACN030S5)
    • Psychology of Criminal Behaviour (LALA179S4)
    • Sexuality (SSPA093H5)