Erin Shannon

Profile

Biography

I joined the department as a PhD student in October 2017 under the supervision of Vanita Sundaram and became a research associate the following spring. I approach education from a gender studies perspective (specifically gender-based violence), as I completed my MA in Gender, Violence and Conflict at the University of Sussex. My thesis is a comparative project examining how universities in the United States and in England respond to student disclosures of sexual harassment and violence.

Departmental roles

• Research Associate

Research

Overview

I am interested in looking at gender-based violence, specifically sexual harassment and sexual violence, in university settings.

Projects

• PhD thesis: US and English University Responses to Student Disclosures of Sexual Violence
• Research assistant: HEFCE-funded project, “Developing an intersectional approach to training on sexual harassment, violence and hate crime”

Research group(s)

• Centre for Research on Education and Social Justice (CRESJ)

External activities

Memberships

• British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE)
• Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
• Geoscience Education Academy (GEA)

Invited talks and conferences

• Roundtable participant, WRDTP event: “Doing research in an age of #metoo.” University of Leeds, 21 November, 2018.