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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
- Research Interests
- Narrative Inquiry,life-writing,archival research,qualitative research,time and temporality,space and spatiality,Olive Schreiner's letters,epistemologies,Research methodology,Historical sociology,Feminist Research
- 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, Keele), Ms. Sarah Poustie (holder of the Project ESRC PhD Studentship), Ms. Donna Hetherington (holder of an AHRC PhD Studentship), Dr. Mike Meredith (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
Through my initial involvement in the Northern Narratives Network (Newcastle University, then Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities), in 2007-8 I helped organise 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) and subsequent events.
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 co-convenor (with Prof. Liz Stanley) of the Semester 1 Honours and Postgraduate option Contemporary Feminist Debates. Please see the School webpages for further information.
From 2007/8 to 2010/11, I convened the Semester 2 Graduate School of Social and Political Science research training module, Narrative, Text & Discourse.
Publications
Stanley, Liz, Dampier, Helen & Salter, Andrea (2010) "Olive Schreiner globalising social inquiry: A feminist analytics of globalisation" Sociological Review 58 (4): 656-79.
Salter, Andrea (2010) "Filling the Silences? Mass-Observation's Wartime Diaries, Interpretive Work and Indexicality" Life Writing 7 (1): 53-65.
Salter, Andrea (2010) "Commentary on Tamboukou" Life Writing 7 (1): 35.
Salter, Andrea (2010) "Commentary on The Professor's Chair" Life Writing 7 (2): 171.
Stanley, Liz & Salter, Andrea (2009) "’Her letters cut are generally nothing of interest’: The heterotopic persona of Olive Schreiner and the alterity-persona of Cronwright-Schreiner" English in Africa 36 (2): 7-30.
Salter, Andrea (2008) “Engaging with 'The Present'?: Nella Last's Mass-Observation Diary” Edinburgh Working Papers in Sociology No. 26, University of Edinburgh.
Thesis
Salter, Andrea (2008) Women's Mass-Observation Diaries: Writing, Time & 'Subjective Cameras' Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh. (currently being worked up for publication)
This page was published on 18 December 2011