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Section: Sociology
Andrea Salter
- Name
- Dr Andrea Salter
- Title
- Research Associate; Olive Schreiner Letters Project
- Organisation
- Sociology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 6.21 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 6511323
- Andrea.Salter@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/salter_andrea
Olive Schreiner Letters Project
I am working as a postdoctoral Research Associate on the ESRC-funded Olive Schreiner Letters Project with Prof. Liz Stanley (Principle Investigator, Edinburgh University), Dr. Helen Dampier (Co-Investigator, Leeds Metropolitan University), Prof. David Shepherd (Co-Investigator, HRI, University of Sheffield), Ms. Sarah Poustie (holder of the Edinburgh-based Project ESRC PhD Studentship), Ms. Kathy Rogers (Technical Officer, HRI, University of Sheffield) and Dr. Kiera Chapman (Project Data Developer, HRI, University of Sheffield). Please see the Project website for further information:
www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk
Over the past two years, I have been involved in organising the ESRC Seminar Series on Narrative Studies in Interdisciplinary Perspective in association with the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Narrative & Auto/Biographical Studies (NABS). Continuing this association with the Centre for NABS, the Olive Schreiner Letters Project will organise a series of national seminars on 'Epistolarity in Social Science Research’, starting in late 2009, and an international conference on 'Epistolarity and the Analysis of Social Change' will be held towards the end of the Project, in September - November 2011. The Project will also run a series of training workshops on electronically publishing social science data and also, relatedly on analysing letters and other textual data using project-specific VREs, in the third year of the project.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Geography, Northumbria University (with First Class Honours; Winner of the CC Taylor Prize)
MA Human Geography Research, University of Sheffield (with Distinction)
PhD Sociology, University of Edinburgh (Thesis title - Women's Mass-Observation Diaries: Writing, Time and 'Subjective Cameras')
Principle Research Interests
Historical Sociology; Life-writing and auto/biography; Archival and narrative research, epistemologies and methodologies; time and space intersections
Teaching
I am Course Organiser for, and teach on, the Semester 2 Graduate School of Social and Political Science research training module, Narrative, Text & Discourse.
Office Hours: please email me to arrange an appointment
Publications
Stanley, Liz, Dampier, Helen & Salter, Andrea (in progress) "It's been done before! Olive Schreiner gloabalising social inquiry" (draft presented at the BSA Conference 2009)Stanley, Liz & Salter, Andrea (in press) “’Her letters cut are generally nothing of interest’: The heterotopic persona of Olive Schreiner and the alterity-persona of Cronwright-Schreiner” English in Africa (Vol. 36)
Salter, Andrea (in press, 2010) "Filling the Silences? Mass-Observation's Wartime Diaries, Interpretive Work and Indexicality", Life Writing
Salter, Andrea (2008) Women's Mass-Observation Diaries: Writing, Time & 'Subjective Cameras' Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh. (under consideration)Salter, Andrea (2008) “Engaging with 'The Present'?: Nella Last's Mass-Observation Diary” Edinburgh Working Papers in Sociology No. 26, University of Edinburgh.
This page was published on 19 October 2009