On this page, scholars from across a range of disciplines give us a brief insight into the intersection between their work and the study of cultural identity and memory.
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02 September 2026Dr Doren Snoek (Associate Lecturer, School of Divinity) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? My doctoral research was on revisionary history in the Hebrew Bible; the question that I asked is “how might the production of a new history have effects on social memory?” I connected theory … Read more
10 August 2026Amara Eden Doshi (Postgraduate Researcher, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? My research examines how individual and collective industry memory is embedded in how people imagine and engage with the future. I study generative AI and video game development, topics … Read more
25 July 2026James Ainge (Professor and Head of School of Psychology & Neuroscience) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? I am a neuroscientist interested in how the brain facilitates our memory. Most of my research concerns the memories for our everyday experience; episodic memory. My research concentrates on a … Read more
18 June 2026Zeke Ward (MLitt Student in Theology and the Arts) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? My research is focused on the interdisciplinary field of Theology and the Arts with an emphasis on theatricality, narrative, and aesthetics. I am particularly interested in the modern philosophical concept of the … Read more
12 May 2026Dr Kieran McConaghy (Lecturer in Terrorism and Political Violence at the School of International Relations) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? My research focuses on the history of political violence in Ireland. I have conducted research projects in the past which have analysed British security policy in … Read more
20 March 2026Prof Carlos Machado (Professor of Ancient History at the School of Classics) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? Much of my research is concerned with the city of Rome at the end of Antiquity, a time of great social, political, and cultural change. In late antique Rome, … Read more
3 February 2026Prof Dina Iordanova (Emeritus Professor in Global Cinema, School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Film) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? All my research is focused on the ways cinema represents and recycles the past. In this era of empires falling apart and being reconfigured again, my work … Read more
14 February 2025Dr Gönül Bozoğlu (she/her). Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies, School of Art History. Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? Memory, politics, and identity are strongly linked in museum and heritage studies. How are the past and historical memory experienced, used, represented, diminished, erased, forgotten, and why, … Read more
6 February 2025. Zehra Kazmi, School of English Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? I have recently submitted my thesis titled, “Indo-Muslim Nostalgia: Memory, Modernity and the Nation”. It examines historical memory and nostalgia in South Asian Muslim writing within the context of sectarian violence and cultural disintegration following … Read more
22 October 2022Lucy Szemetová (PhD Student in the Department of Film Studies) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? My research interrogates the relationship between memory politics and audio-visual archives, with a particular focus on the reuse of archival footage in documentary films in Hungary. I am particularly interested in … Read more
