Dr Kate Marston

Lecturer in Social Sciences, Education

School of Social Sciences

: MarstonKE@cardiff.ac.uk

Overview
Publications

I am a Lecturer in Education with a particular interest in young people's gender and sexual cultures, digital relationships and creative, visual and arts-based methods. My teaching and research is driven by a passion for creating social change for gender and sexual justice within and through education.

My research sets out to foster creative, curious and imaginative ways of attending to how gender and sexuality comes to matter in young people’s everyday digitally-networked lives. In 2020 I completed my PhD, titled Exploring young people's digital sexual cultures through creative, visual and arts-based methods, at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. My work is informed by queer and feminist posthuman theories.

Currently, I am investigating how the non-binary, sexually diverse and networked facets of fungi can open up creative and critical spaces for exploring networked communication, gender and sexuality with young people and educators.

Date
Type

2023

Marston, K. 2023. What a mushroom lives for by Michael J. Hathaway [Book Review]. The Sociological Review Magazine (10.51428/tsr.nzjc9813)
Marston, K. 2023. Young people's digitally-networked bodies: the changing possibilities of what a gendered body can be, do and become online. Journal of Gender Studies (10.1080/09589236.2023.2172555)

2022

Marston, K. 2022. Exploring the endurance of phallogocentric power relations in young people's digital sexual cultures. In: Hoskins, K., Genova, C. and Crowe, N. eds. Digital Youth Subcultures: Performing 'Transgressive' Identities in Digital Social Spaces. Routledge
Marston, K. 2022. #Relationshipgoals: fantasies of the good life in young people's digitally-networked peer cultures. Journal of Youth Studies (10.1080/13676261.2022.2124106)
Marston, K. 2022. Fabricating future bodies: making digital sexualities research matter. Qualitative Research Journal 22(1), pp. 67-80. (10.1108/QRJ-01-2021-0014)

2021

Kerpen, S. and Marston, K. 2021. Heteronormativity. In: Delamont, S. et al. eds. SAGE Research Methods Foundations. SAGE

2020

Marston, K. 2020. Exploring young people's digital sexual cultures through creative, visual and arts-based methods. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Marston, K. 2020. Visual and affective analysis of social media. In: Pauwels, L. and Mannay, D. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods. SAGE, pp. 604-613., (10.4135/9781526417015.n38)
Renold, E. and Marston, K. 2020. Research to reflect on: The power of creative methods for talking about sensitive issues with young people. National Education Union.

2019

Marston, K. 2019. Researching LGBT+ Youth Intimacies and Social Media: The Strengths and Limitations of Participant-Led Visual Methods. Qualitative Inquiry 25(3), pp. 278-288. (10.1177/1077800418806598)

2015

Marston, K. 2015. Beyond bullying: the limitations of homophobic and transphobic bullying interventions for affirming lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) equality in education. Pastoral Care in Education 33(3), pp. 161-168. (10.1080/02643944.2015.1074266)