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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Accepting applications from PhD students.

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 only accepting enquiries for PhD supervision for candidates looking at 2026/27 entry. I do not accept proposals written using Generative AI or by/with application consultancies.  

I am interested in supervising PhD research which fits into any of the following categories: 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.