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Hello!
My name is Bethany and I’m currently based in Bristol, U.K.
I hold a first class honours degree from Central Saint Martins and a Masters degree in Visual Culture and Art History at Oxford University. I completed my doctorate at Central Saint Martins, researching trauma narratives in digital culture under an AHRC TECHNE scholarship.
I am a senior lecturer in Media Communication at Bath Spa University, have previously acted as a visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and have worked in arts and literature outreach for a number of years. I have presented my research and creative work at Brighton University, London College of Fashion, Birmingham University and Oxford University and more, and have published my academic writing at First Monday, Galactica Journal, Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Discourses of Anxiety’ collection and The Palgrave Handbook for Violence in Film and Media (2022) amongst others. I have upcoming chapters in the Routledge Companion to Gender, Violence and Popular Culture, and Routledge’s Screening Controversy collection, both of which are due for publication at the end of 2026.
I’m currently working on a contracted monograph ‘Children’s Mascots and Media Cultures: Horror, Humour, and Affective Audience Connections’ with Edinburgh University Press as part of their Children’s Film and Television series.
I currently serve as the Queer Research Tools section editor alongside Professor Kath Browne for the upcoming Bloomsbury Handbook for Queer Research Methods. The handbook is due for publication early 2028, and I’m also contributing a co-authored book chapter for the section on creative research tools for queer Disabled lived experience research.
In the 2023-2024 academic year, I joined the Wellcome Trust’s We Are The People team as a Research Fellow, exploring the subject of disability arts and LGBTQIA+ experiences of accessibility.
I was the Editor in Chief and founder of the mental health journal Doll Hospital from 2014 to 2020. Themes of mental health and trauma are still a huge inspiration to me in both my creative writing and research, and I’m a member of The Research Centre for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Creativity due to this.
My work has been featured in Dazed and Confused, Vice, xoVain, Rookie Magazine, Buzzfeed, The New Statesman, i-D and The Hairpin to name a few.
I hope you’re having a good day!
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