Personal statement
I thought academia was not for me
Seeking representation through my degree
Searching across all those black and white pages
Assuming universalism through the ages
Such claims to truth yet they did not speak to me
I really tried but this ‘truth’ I could not see
So I abandoned these rules and disciplines
To tell different truths, find new beginnings
I share my research with the words that best fit
Trying to worry less about who gets it
So dear reader perhaps you cannot relate
To any of the issues on which I prate
To my queer focus on temporalities
Or celebration of non-normative bodies
But at least this research is not hard to read
Focusing instead on accessibility
Yet offers a rainbow of complexity
And understandings outside stark binaries
Maybe being Out it makes space in HE
Making it easier for others like me
An academic activist? Try to be
Embracing creative sociology
While still somewhat interdisciplinary
Or maybe I just like language and poetry
Qualifications
PhD Sociology
MRes Equality and Human Rights
MA Critical and Cultural Theory
BA(hons) English Studies
Research interests
Creative Representation
I tried to find the words but they wouldn’t come
struggling to write, all my thoughts come undone
overwhelmed by the burden
of representation
of real people with a real story
so I added creativity
Swapping out one truth for another
Replacing one place with the other
removed from context, out of time
Freed up these stories, theirs not mine
their many truths overlapped in rhyme
Through this I found the words, their words
Their expression, their phrasing, their terms
to do justice to their stories, contexts
to make sense of relationships so complex
offers an analysis that respects complex contexts
Professional activities
- AS IS
- Host
- 2/7/2022
- Disabled Young People’s Experience of Personal Support: Intimacies, Identities and Embodiments in Personal Assistance Relationships
- Speaker
- 25/5/2022
- Using Poetry and Plays to Discuss Non-binary Recognition
- Speaker
- 11/5/2022
- Spring Into Methods - Doing Feminist Research
- Speaker
- 6/5/2022
- British Sociological Association Annual Conference
- Participant
- 22/4/2022
- Podcast #33: Meet Some Academics: Harvey Humphrey and Yvette Taylor
- Speaker
- 18/4/2022
More professional activities
Projects
- Using Poetry and Plays to Discuss Non-binary Recognition
- Humphrey, Harvey (Principal Investigator)
- Brief talk ‘Using Poetry and Plays to Discuss Non-binary Recognition’ as part of 'Pint of Science Festival', Webster Bar and Bistro, Glasgow.
- 11-Jan-2022 - 11-Jan-2022
- Ethnodrama and Accessibility: International LGBTIQ+ Research Sharing
- Humphrey, Harvey (Principal Investigator) Taylor, Yvette (Co-investigator) Govender, Navan (Co-investigator)
- HASS KE Small Grant Funding: £4860
- 17-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- 'Who's Here? Who's Queer?' Making Space for Queer ECRs in Academia
- Humphrey, Harvey (Principal Investigator) Marzetti, Hazel (Co-investigator)
- A British Sociological Association Early Career Forum Regional Event
£1000 - 15-Jan-2021 - 20-Jan-2022
- International Trans and Intersex Activist Relationships: Ethics, Ethnodrama and Representation
- Humphrey, Harvey (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
- International Trans and Intersex Activist Relationships: Ethics, Ethnodrama and Representation
- Taylor, Yvette (Co-investigator) Humphrey, Harvey (Fellow)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 19-Jan-2022
More projects
Address
Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
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