Dr Lisa Overton
Name | Dr Lisa Overton |
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Job title | Senior Lecturer in Politics |
Research institute | |
Primary appointment | Law and Social Sciences |
Email address | L.A.Overton@mdx.ac.uk |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1466-2609 |
Contact category | Researcher |
Biography
Biography I
am a queer feminist academic working on intersectionalities linked to
gendered-sexualities, crisis and disaster, particularly in relation to age and lifecourse. I am interested in everyday lives and experiences and
expanding the definition of what we mean by disaster. I
have worked and researched on gendered issues across the globe - Sri Lanka, New
Orleans, USA, the U.K. and 'International Development' more generally. This has
included collaborations with Oxfam, UNRISD and Plan International. My current work explores notions of gender, relationships, sexual consent, pleasure and danger. Key projects include: The Queer Dating Project (internally funded) - this project explores queer
spaces of dating and relationships with creative poster-style outputs via our Instagram page @thequeerdatingproject Sexual Misconduct and Gender Discrimination Higher Education - this is a creative nonfiction on the crisis of sexual and gender
discrimination in higher education. Hazards, Disasters, Climate Change and Sexual and Gender Diversity - this is co-edited book forthcoming within the Routledge Series Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change Editors: Dale Dominey-Howes, Lisa Overton, Ashleigh Rushton, Haorui Wu, William Leonard, Marcilyn Cianfarani and Dana Greene. Engendering Development: Critical reflections on
gender and development - this project is a co-edited book forthcoming through Edward Elgar. Editors: Sarah Bradshaw, Brian Linneker, Rebeca Cruz and Lisa Overton. LGBTQ+ Engagement and Understanding of Cervical Screening - this is a survey project lead by Britta Stordal as part of a wider project on cervical screening.
Teaching I supervise Undergraduate and Postgraduate dissertations within the Faculty focused on gender, sexualities and youth. PhD Supervision: Co-supervisor with Anastasia Christou and Meri Juntti for Manasa Saravanan: Women’s
community-based climate adaptation using indigenous local knowledges in India I am developing a new gender module for our Masters programmes within Law and Social Sciences: I am the Module Leader for:
Employment
Education and qualifications
Grants
Prizes and Awards
External activities
On a yearly basis, I facilitate a workshop on UCL's Disaster Management programme focused on the underpinning gender and sexualities theories that should shape disaster thinking at policy and programme levels.
Research outputs
Stay Safe
Overton, L. 2022. Stay Safe. Online Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.lcny8665Why relationships matter post-disaster: Focus on queer-identified young women and gender diverse people who ‘grew up’ in Post Katrina New Orleans
Overton, L. 2022. Why relationships matter post-disaster: Focus on queer-identified young women and gender diverse people who ‘grew up’ in Post Katrina New Orleans. LGBT+ Liberation: LGBT+ lives and issues in the context of normativities. UCU Conference. Online 02 - 04 Nov 2021 pp. 1-7Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability
Bradshaw, S., Linneker, B. and Overton, L. 2022. Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability. in: Bankoff, G. and Hilhorst, D. (ed.) Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The politics of disaster risk creation Routledge. pp. 51-67“Girls Interrupted”: Young women ‘growing up’ in post-Katrina New Orleans: an exploration of the intersections of genders, sexualities and youth
Overton, L. 2017. “Girls Interrupted”: Young women ‘growing up’ in post-Katrina New Orleans: an exploration of the intersections of genders, sexualities and youth. PhD thesis Middlesex University School of LawExtractive industries as sites of supernormal profits and supernormal patriarchy?
Bradshaw, S., Linneker, B. and Overton, L. 2017. Extractive industries as sites of supernormal profits and supernormal patriarchy? Gender & Development. 25 (3), pp. 439-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2017.1379780Gender and social accountability: ensuring women’s inclusion in citizen-led accountability programming relating to extractive industries. Oxfam America Research Backgrounder series (2016)
Bradshaw, S., Linneker, B. and Overton, L. 2016. Gender and social accountability: ensuring women’s inclusion in citizen-led accountability programming relating to extractive industries. Oxfam America Research Backgrounder series (2016). Oxfam America.268
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