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Kate Marston

Dr Kate Marston

(she/they)

Lecturer in Social Sciences, Education

School of Social Sciences

Email
MarstonKE@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29225 10079
Campuses
Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA

Overview

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 PhD research (awarded 2020) explored how social media, smart devices and gaming platforms shape young people’s gender and sexual cultures. Drawing on feminist posthuman and new materialist theories, my thesis illustrated the enduring force of heteronormative and phallogocentric power in young people’s digitally networked peer cultures as well as illuminated how gender and sexuality is reconfigured online.  

Since October 2021, I have been working with the youth forum at the National Museum of Wales to creatively engage with their fungi collections and local fungal ecology as stimuli for exploring changing understandings of gender and sexuality, networked communication and non-binary genders and sexualities.  

My work also explores how creative, visual and arts-based methodologies can unlock a range of embodied, material, spatial and affective experiences with gender and sexuality.

Publication

2024

2023

2022

2021

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

2020

2019

2015

Articles

Book sections

Other

Thesis

Research

Professional memberships

I am co-convenor of the British Educational Research Association's Gender and Sexualities SIG.

External funding  

2023 - 2024 - GW4 Building Communities Grant - Queer Frontiers Network - Co-Investigator [with Dr Rosie Nelson, Dr Peter Dunne, Dr Fran Amery and Dr Sarah Cooper]

2022 - 2023 - British Academy ECRN Seed Fund - The Future is Fungal? - Principal Investigator  

2021 - 2022 - ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - Re-imagining digital sexualities research and practice - Principal Investigator 

2016 - 2020 - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded PhD - Exploring young people's digital sexual cultures through creative, visual and arts-based methods - Doctoral Researcher

Public Engagement  

Panels

Teaching

I am part of the Education teaching team. I convene the 2nd year undergraduate module Children and Childhood. I also teach on the modules Sociology of Education, Introduction to Education, CRUSH, Gender Relations and Society and Environment and Human Health.  

 

Biography

Before coming to Cardiff University to undertake doctoral research, I spent five years working in the voluntary sector on projects challenging homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools.