Postdoctoral Fellow Profiles

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 lonliness 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