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鈥檚 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.