Dr Kelly Davidson
I am the Programme Coordinator of the BA in English, Media and Cultural Studies, teaching on the Year 2 course on Political Economy and Globalisation and Year 3 course on Contemporary Cinema. I am also a member of the staff team for the MA in Public Cultures Studies.
Publications
I research and publish in the areas of popular culture, cultural heritage, travel and identity. I have also published in a previous capacity as consultant to community relations and statutory heritage bodies.
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| ‘Imelda Rocks the Boom Boom: Imelda May and the Crisis of Austerity Ireland,’ in S. Cleary and C. Hayes-Brady (eds), G(u)ilt and Glitter: Economic Crisis and Burlesque in Ireland, Intellect Books | forthcoming 2016 |
Research projects
Post-industrial Urban Regeneration and Cultural Nostalgia: on-going cross-cultural, cross-institutional research partnership with Dr Carlton Brick, University of West of Scotland, working to explore synergies in the arts and culture industries and the impact on reorganisations of post-industrial urban and cultural space.
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| Organisation of Collaborative Research and Community Engagement: Access + the Culture of Education in Ireland Symposium, a joint research and community initiative between the IADT Student Union and Centre for Public Cultures Studies. | 2012 |
| IRC Postgraduate Review Committee Member | 2013 |
| IRCHSS Postgraduate Review Committee Member | 2011-13 |
| Screen Tourism Research Working Group | 2009-12 |
| Two Strand 1 funding: ‘Visual Arts and Cultural Tourism: The Irish Case 1990 – present’ (with P. Gilligan 2008-13), and ‘Digital Ethics: Photojournalism and the Public Sphere in the Age of Citizen Journalism and the Camera Phone’ (with J. Carville 2008-11) |
Lectures/Conferences
My work crosses the fields of popular culture, heritage, travel and tourism, and identity politics.
| Year | |
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| Hipsters and Heterotopes: (Mis)recognizing the liminal ‘other’ in the post-subcultural city’ (with Carlton Brick), Spaces and Frontiers, Assoc. of Canadian Irish Studies, NUI Galway, May | 2014 |
| R(h)etrotopic Bodies:Mapping the ‘retro’ pin-up as (un)desirable space’ (with Carlton Brick, UWS), Music, Gender and Difference (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna) | 2013 |
| ‘The function of May ’68 in Contemporary Irish Student Citizen Movements’, The Irish in France and the French in Ireland, (National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies [AFIS]/ Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille) | 2011 |
| Gated Communities and Gender in Reality TV’, Gender Politics and Reality TV (UCD Humanities Institute, Dublin) |