Staff Profile

Her PhD explored the naturalisation of time within the subject area of Urban Studies and its limiting effect on temporal imaginations within the discipline and bordering disciplinary and academic practices. A more recent project, Justice Journeys, used arts-based methods to work with survivors of rape to explore and share their experiences of justice within and beyond the criminal justice system. This work was awarded the University of Glasgow’s Best Community & Public Engagement award in 2021. She is currently PI/Co-PI on a number of grants, including: Kitchen Life, Diversifying Justice, and Researchers Don’t Cry?!

Her work is theoretically grounded in post-qualitative inquiry and guided through readings with/in post-structural, post-colonial, post-humanist, new materialist, assemblage, STS and affect theories. She is experienced in designing and using a wide range of critical, performative and transformative methodological approaches, including (auto)ethnography, participatory research, research-creation methods, speculative worlding, and arts-based methodologies.

Underpinning all that she does is a view that theory and method should be treated as tools to prise apart dominant knowledge practices, towards realities unseen, and towards undisciplinary modes of thinking and doing. To this end she considers academia a potent site for exploration in and of itself and she relatedly engages in alternative modes of scholarship as practices of critique and resistance, exercising slow, community-based and anti-c0lonial methods within her everyday academic practice. To this end she is just as at home (re)imagining the world through craft and making. She is particularly partial to crochet, sewing and quilting as means to connect the head, the heart, and the hand. Her written PhD thesis was accompanied by a hand-embroidered, patchwork quilt.

In the spirit of Georges Perec, she likes to question her teaspoons. Following Donna Haraway, she continually asks: with whose blood were my eyes crafted? And she remains ever optimistic in the potential of imaginative acts. In the words of Marnie Stern: see how easy to dream a scheme of sounds in your head. We must dream on.

 

Selected Publications: 

MacKenzie, M. , Bradley, L. , Stanley, N., Gannon, M., Barton, D., Cosgrove, K., Conway, E. and Feder, G. (2019) What might normalisation process theory bring to policy implementation studies? Learning lessons and uncovering questions through a case study of the profound implementation failure of a new policing policy. Social Policy and Administration, 53(3), pp. 449-463. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12467)

Brooks-Hay, O. , Burman, M. and Bradley, L. (2019) Justice Journeys: Informing Policy and Practice Through Lived Experience of Victim-Survivors of Rape and Serious Sexual Assault. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, Glasgow.

Brooks-Hay, O. , Burman, M. , Bradley, L. and Kyle, D.(2018) Evaluation of the Rape Crisis Scotland National Advocacy Project: Final Report. Project Report. SCCJR.

Brooks-Hay, O. , Burman, M. , Bradley, L. and Kyle, D.(2018) Evaluation of the Rape Crisis Scotland National Advocacy Project: Summary Report. Project Report. SCCJR.

Read, B. and Bradley, L. (2018) Gender, time and ‘waiting’ in everyday academic life. In: Taylor, Y. and Lahad, K.(eds.) Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University: Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures. Series: Palgrave studies in gender and education. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 221-242. ISBN 9783319642239(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64224-6_10)

Madgin, R. , Bradley, L. and Hastings, A. (2016) Connecting physical and social dimensions of place attachment: what can we learn from attachment to urban recreational spaces? Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 31(4), pp. 677-693. (doi: 10.1007/s10901-016-9495-4)