Dr Daniella Shaw

Overview

Biography

Daniella is a Postdoctoral Researcher on Liminal Waterway Countercultures, a European project exploring how rivers, docks, and coastlines shape cultural identity, migration, and belonging. Her work focuses on Liverpool, where she uses participatory photography to help uncover lesser-told stories of the city’s waterfront - particularly those of Black, migrant, and long-established working communities.

She previously worked on the European Encounters project, examining Muslim–Jewish relations in the context of London. Her doctoral research explored how religion-oriented diasporic communities negotiate the fluid conditions of contemporary modernity, based on fieldwork with Jewish and Amish communities in the UK and USA.

Daniella received her BA in International Relations and an MA in Ethnicity, Globalisation and Culture from Birkbeck, where she researched ideas of exile, memory, and ‘home’ in Jewish and Rastafarian cultural writings.

Her research challenges assumptions about the boundaries between ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’ within late modernity, and she has presented papers on belonging, researcher positionality, and community boundaries.

Daniella has has also spent more than 20 years working in intercultural and interfaith relations, refugee and asylum advocacy and using creative methodologies to surface lived experience. 

Qualifications

• PhD Sociology, University of Surrey, 2021
• MA Ethnicity, Globalisation, Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, 2009
• BA International Relations, University of Leeds, 2005

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