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Dr Edward Loveman

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Room: R2.26 Ramphal Building

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Assistant Professor

About

Dr Edward Loveman is an Assistant Professor, Researcher, and Visual Artist within the School for Cross-faculty Studies. With teaching experience across EYFS to Higher Education, they completed their doctoral studies at Bournemouth University in the Department of Sport & Event Management. Edward also holds an MRes in Sociology and BA (Hons) in Sport & Social Science from the University of Bath.

Teaching

Honours-level modules:

  • DI105: Visual Practice and Curiosity (Convenor)
  • DI207: Social Design (Convenor)
  • GD106: Social Principles of Global Sustainable Development (Convenor)

  • GD204: Health and Sustainable Development (Contributor)

Postgraduate modules:

  • GD912: Popular Movements and Sustainable Change (Convenor)

Pedagogy

Edward operates an integrative pedagogy, understanding that individual student learning occurs on a spectrum of interests, abilities, and styles, and who each have their own unique potential to positively impact society. They have an established background in creating effective and inclusive learning environments built on this learner-centred approach to the design of curriculum, assessment methods, and student wellbeing. Their focus on designing learning as an experience is aimed at providing students with a more holistic and authentic education that integrates multiple subjects and topics which students can connect to real world scenarios.

In practice, this approach often blends knowledge-based learning techniques with hands-on, experiential learning activities such as visual projects, creative experiments, and play. This allows students to engage with and apply what they are learning in a meaningful way. This helps students harness their own capabilities and interests so that they can, in their own ways, deal with the magnitude and complexity of today’s global challenges, whilst recognising the power in effective collaboration to bridge cultural divides.

Research

Edward’s postqualitative research explores being and belonging in everyday experience, often transcending disciplinarity. Their work is characterised by two interwoven strands: On one hand, Edward critically engages with contemporary formations of sport and leisure, interrogating in particular, their socio-cultural, political, environmental, and embodied dimensions. On the other, they explore potential alternative narratives through play and recreation, myth and folklore, and magic and mysticism. Underpinning this is a commitment to radical and ethically engaged scholarship - advocating for the importance of otherworlds, creative practice, and experimental, sometimes subversive, methods that challenge dominant paradigms and imagine more just, enchanted ways of knowing.

Edward is available to supervise postgraduate and doctoral students, and particularly welcomes proposals for projects related to their research interests.

You can read Edward’s doctoral thesis here.

Supervison

MASc:

  • Alice Davidson. Using Photo-Elicitation To Make Visible Women’s Everyday, Embodied Experiences Of The Manosphere (completed; 2024 Capstone Award Winner).
  • Hannah Micuta. The sinister side of pesticides: How Syngenta maintains slow violence (creative submission; completed).

PhD:

  • Ilaria Ravazzolo. Cooking Identity: A Gastrofeminist Study of (Grand)Mothers, Belonging and Identity (in progress).

Publications

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