Professor Maria Tamboukou
Professor of Feminist Studies
Social Sciences
Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Social Work and teaches at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests are in the philosophies of social sciences, feminist theories, narrative and archival research methods and studies in neo-materialism.
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EB 1.110, Docklands Campus
University of East London
School of Social Sciences
Docklands Campus
London
E16 2RD - m.tamboukou@uel.ac.uk +442082232783
Maria Tamboukou (BA, MA, PhD) is Professor of Feminist Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Social Work, University of East London, UK. She has held visiting research positions in a number of institutions and is currently Affiliated Professor in Gender Studies at Linnaeus University Sweden, Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Australia and member of the Scientific Board of the 'Hannah Arendt Centre for Political Studies' at the University of Verona, Italy. Maria's research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics and archival research. She is the author of 7 monographs, 2 co-authored books, 3 co-edited volumes on research methods and more than 80 articles and book chapters. Writing histories of the present is the central focus of her work, currently configured as an assemblage of feminist genealogies.
See Maria's personal website for a full list of research, publications, teaching and other research activities
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ResearchGateAffiliated Professor in Gender Studies at Linnaeus University Sweden
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Australia
Member of the Scientific Board of the 'Hannah Arendt' Centre for Political Studies at the University of Verona, Italy.
Editorial Activity
2012-present Co-editor, Gender and Education
2014-present Editorial Board, Qualitative Research Journal
2010-present International Advisory Board, fe journal: feminist critique
2006-2012 Editorial Board, Gender and Education
2014-present: Member of the scientific committee of the book series at the ETS Edizioni, based in Pisa, Italy.
Reviewer of book proposals for Macmillan, Palgrave, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Reviewer for a number of journals, including Body and Society, British Journal of Sociology, Critical Studies in Education, Cultural Economy, Discourse, Emotion, Space and Society, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Gender and Education, History of Education, Feminist Psychology, International Journal of Critical Psychology, Journal of Education Policy, Sociology, Polity, Qualitative Research, Subjectivity, Theory, Culture and Society.
Research positions and visits
July 2010: Australian Academy of Humanities Visiting Fellow
2006-2011: Erasmus Visiting Scholar, University of Peloponnese, Greece
October 2009: Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
May 2006: Visiting Scholar, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
April 2006: Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria, Australia
March 2006: Visiting Scholar, Boston College, USA
October 2003: Visiting Scholar, University of Natal, South Africa
1999-2002: Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College, London.
Overview
Writing histories of the present is the central focus of Maria's work, currently configured as an assemblage of feminist genealogies:
Technologies of the Female Self: Women in Education
In the Fold Between Life and Art: a genealogy of women artists
Archival site: Nomadic Narratives
Background with needles: a genealogy of the seamstress
Archival sites:
Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics
New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How matter comes to matter'
Revisiting the Nomadic Subject
2018-2019, Leverhulme Research Fellowship: ‘Revisiting the Nomadic Subject’, [RF-2018-212\8], £54,248
2014-2018. European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, COST Action IS1307 (New Materialism:
Networking European Scholarship On 'How Matter comes to Matter!), management
committee member, travel and meeting grants, £1,600.
2012-2013,
British Academy Small Research Grant, Educating
the Seamstress: Women Workers’ Contribution to the cultural life of the
twentieth century [SG112079], PI, £5,000
July
2010, Australian Academy of Humanities visiting fellowship: Building and exploring
connections, commonalities, contradictions and boundaries within and between
creative arts research and narrative inquiry,
travel, meetings and subsistence grant, £3,000.
2003-2004:
AHRB small grant for the research project ‘In the fold between art and life: a
genealogy of women artists’. [B/SG/AN10693/APN17267], PI, £5,000
2003-2005: Methods in Dialogue ESRC seminar
series grant with Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire and Phil Cohen,
(co-investigator), £12,000
Research networks
- UEL
- External
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New Materialism: Networking European scholarship, COST ACTION IS1307
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Nordic Circle: Narrative and Memory
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BSA Auto/biography
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International Auto/biography Association
Research
Publications
- Feminist Theories
- Philosophies and Epistemologies in the Social Sciences
- New Materialism
- Archives
- Genealogies
- Narratives