Doctor Lizzie Reed

Dr Lizzie Reed

 BA (hons), MA, FHEA, PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Queer theory and methodologies
  • Queer lives and intimate relationships
  • LGBTQ community, identity and culture

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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.

A note on PhD enquiries:

I am not currently accepting applications for PhD supervision due to workload constraints. The earliest I anticipate this will change is for entries in 2026/27

My priorities in PhD supervision are for candidates proposing research which fits any of the following: directly addresses inequalities experienced by gender and sexual minorities; proposes innovative queer methodologies; focuses on joy and liveability in the everday lives of LGBTQ+ people; addresses key theoretical debates in queer theory around the creation of concrete utopias and/or futurity in a climate crisis.