The ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme is aimed at providing a career development opportunity for those in the immediately postdoctoral stage of their career, and at providing the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills.
If you are a current fellow or alumni and would like to update your profile, please email enquiries@wgsss.ac.uk
If you would like to find out more about becoming an ESRC Fellow, please visit our Fellowships Page.
Postdoctoral Fellow Profiles 2024 – 2025
Understanding the impacts of angler heterogeneity in the implementation of fisheries policy in the UK
Dr Adam Fisher
Pathway: Environmental Planning
University: University of Gloucestershire
Multilingual Family Language Policy and Wellbeing: Language Ideologies, Strategies and Experiences
Dr Kaisa Pankakoski
Pathway: Linguistics and Bilingualism
University: Cardiff University
Unlocking Urban Futures: Rethinking Financialised Planning Systems and Exploring Post-Growth Planning Alternatives
Dr Ying-Chun (Nancy) Hou
Pathway: Environmental Planning
University: Cardiff University
Making a bridge between planning and support for (un)realised parenthood goals under the new 21st-century parenthood landscape
Dr Mariana Sousa Leite
Pathway: Psychology
University: Cardiff University
Postdoctoral Fellow Profiles 2023 – 2024
‘Expertise’ in International Politics: What can the case of ‘experts’ on the Islamic State group tell us?
Dr Dylan Marshall
Pathway: Politics, International Relations, and Area Studies
University: Aberystwyth University
Narrativised Hate: Investigating and mitigating the potential harm of online narratives of sexual violence at the intersection of white and male supremacy.
Dr Kate Barber
Pathway: Linguistics and Bilingualism
University: Cardiff University
Climbing out of crime: An outdoor activity framework for rehabilitating insecure family relationships.
Dr Marley Willegers
Pathway: Sport and Exercise Science
University: Bangor University
Integrating physical activity with psychological therapies for wellbeing and behaviour change of socially disadvantaged young people.
Dr Jen Thomas
Pathway: Sport and Exercise Science
University: Swansea University
Datafication of cycling
Dr Shaun Williams
Pathway: Human Geography
University: Aberystwyth University
The power of leading by example with high-impact, low-carbon behaviour
Dr Steve Westlake
Pathway: Psychology
University: Cardiff University
Emotion and Migration in Modern British History
Dr Ryan Tristram-Walmsley
Pathway: Economics
University: Swansea University
Postdoctoral Fellow Profiles 2022 – 2023
Caring Lives: What do young people who care for family members need to thrive?
Dr Ryan Tristram-Walmsley
Pathway: Social Care, Social Work and Social Policy
University: Cardiff University
Towards Hopeful Geographical Imaginations: creative alternatives and decolonial futures beyond the nation-state
Dr Silvia Hassouna
Pathway: Human Geography
University: Aberystwyth University
‘How a Society Tells a Story about Itself’ – Journalists’ Accounts of the Enduring and Contradictory Nature of Muslim Representation
Dr Nadia Haq
Pathway: Journalism, Digital Media and Democracy
University: Cardiff University
Non-combatants on the ‘front line’: British Army control of servicewomen’s war labour in Northern Ireland
Dr Hannah West
Pathway: Politics, International Relations, and Area Studies
University: Cardiff University
Title: Citizen journalism in the scoring society: investigating the changing practices of citizen journalism and the future of democracy in the datafied age
Dr Wen Ma
Pathway: Journalism, Digital Media and Democracy
University: Cardiff University
Influence of loneliness and social isolation on attention to social interactions
Dr Ionana Mihai
Pathway: Psychology
University: Bangor University
Law, ethics and medical decision-making for information disclosure: a moral diagnosis
Dr Matthew Watkins
Pathway: Criminology and Law
University: Cardiff University