About
Elizabeth Reed is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Southampton. She is a cultural sociologist whose research and writing focuses on LGBTQ personal life, families, contemporary childhood, and the role of media and cultural representations in identity-making.
Lizzie’s research explores LGBTQ lives, queer families, kinship, everyday life, childhood, and media representation and identity-making.
Research
Research interests
- Queer theory and methodologies
- Queer lives and intimate relationships
- LGBTQ community, identity and culture
- Childhood (especially in relation to digitial communities and technology)
- Sexuality and gender
Current research
Lizzie's current research includes a project about young people's use of TikTok in relation to finding information on LGBTQ lives and culture, and an ongoing collaboration with multi-modal artist Milou Stella.
Lizzie's most recently concluded research explored lesbian people's experience of community, and social spaces in Southampton. In collaboration with colleagues in Geography, the Art House Cafe, and supported by the WSI Stimulus Fund, the project ran during 2022.
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Pagination
Teaching
I convene the first year core module Inequalities in Everyday Worlds, and the second and third year option modules, Gender and Society, and Sexuality and Intimacy. I teach across the deparment with particular interest in gender and queer theories, inequality, personal life, media and cultural representation, and queer methodologies
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Prior to joining Southampton in 2019, Lizzie was a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has also worked at the University of the West of England, and the University of Sussex in various teaching and research roles.