DrJessica Butler
Honorary Research Associate
Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship - Central Faculty
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- Honorary Research AssociateCentre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship - Central Faculty
- Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
MY ROLE AT IMPERIAL
I am an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher working on a project entitled 'The in/visibility of the ‘teacher’ role in STEMMB higher education: Interactions of academic, practitioner, pedagogical, and social identities' with Dr Jo Horsburgh and Kate Ippolito.
The project is designed to answer the following questions:
* What are the interactions, relationships between, and in/visibilities of personal identity, disciplinary identity, and professional identity, for staff with teaching responsibilities at Imperial?
* To what extent, when, and in what ways, does the visibility of the teacher role entail that teaching-responsible staff represent models or exemplars (to students, colleagues, or externally), and how might this be affected by the above interplay of identities?
* What can these insights offer to the ongoing project of increasing equality, diversity, and inclusion in HE – particularly in STEMMB environments and at Imperial specifically?
PREVIOUS ROLES
Before working at Imperial I completed a part-time PhD at Lancaster University alongside a career in research management and HE administration, most recently at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, King's College London, and Goldsmiths.
My doctoral research, ‘These little things blossom and then they die because they don’t fit the world’: Inequalities, the subtle cruelties of unbelonging, and the “true academic” in “neoliberal” English academia, explored the exclusionary yet often self-enforced nature of contemporary academic ideals (and their historical origins).
More broadly my research interests constellate around belonging and unbelonging, inequalities, cultural ideals, and the 'isness' of social roles and identities. I am particularly curious about how traditionally 'outsider' positions or experiences might be reappropriated as locations from which to question and renegotiate both individual and collective relationships to the perceived 'inside' - and indeed the concept of a stable centre itself.
My published work should be visible via the publications tab at the top of this profile; further details about and links to other research outputs, including my thesis, can be found via the links to the left.
ABOUT ME
When I'm not thinking about research I enjoy trying to keep my garden alive, being entertained by my cat Agent Derek Penguin, board games, photography, live music, and long train journeys. I also have a great fondness for squirrels.
I am an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher working on a project entitled 'The in/visibility of the ‘teacher’ role in STEMMB higher education: Interactions of academic, practitioner, pedagogical, and social identities' with Dr Jo Horsburgh and Kate Ippolito.
The project is designed to answer the following questions:
* What are the interactions, relationships between, and in/visibilities of personal identity, disciplinary identity, and professional identity, for staff with teaching responsibilities at Imperial?
* To what extent, when, and in what ways, does the visibility of the teacher role entail that teaching-responsible staff represent models or exemplars (to students, colleagues, or externally), and how might this be affected by the above interplay of identities?
* What can these insights offer to the ongoing project of increasing equality, diversity, and inclusion in HE – particularly in STEMMB environments and at Imperial specifically?
PREVIOUS ROLES
Before working at Imperial I completed a part-time PhD at Lancaster University alongside a career in research management and HE administration, most recently at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, King's College London, and Goldsmiths.
My doctoral research, ‘These little things blossom and then they die because they don’t fit the world’: Inequalities, the subtle cruelties of unbelonging, and the “true academic” in “neoliberal” English academia, explored the exclusionary yet often self-enforced nature of contemporary academic ideals (and their historical origins).
More broadly my research interests constellate around belonging and unbelonging, inequalities, cultural ideals, and the 'isness' of social roles and identities. I am particularly curious about how traditionally 'outsider' positions or experiences might be reappropriated as locations from which to question and renegotiate both individual and collective relationships to the perceived 'inside' - and indeed the concept of a stable centre itself.
My published work should be visible via the publications tab at the top of this profile; further details about and links to other research outputs, including my thesis, can be found via the links to the left.
ABOUT ME
When I'm not thinking about research I enjoy trying to keep my garden alive, being entertained by my cat Agent Derek Penguin, board games, photography, live music, and long train journeys. I also have a great fondness for squirrels.
DEGREES
- PhD, Gender and Women's StudiesLancaster University, United Kingdom
- MA, Modern Literary TheoryGoldsmiths University of London, London, United Kingdom
- BA, English with creative writingGoldsmiths University of London, London, United Kingdom
FACULTY
- Central Faculty
POSITION NAME
- Honorary Research Associate