This project facilitates interdisciplinary research on emotions at the University of Edinburgh, supported by an Academic Networking Fund.
The network can be contacted at Emotion.Talks@ed.ac.uk
The network organisers are:
Dr Marlies Kustatscher
Marlies is a Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the Moray House School of Education, and a Co-Director of the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES). She is interested in the role of emotions for shaping children and young people’s social identities and experiences of inequalities and processes of children’s rights and participation. She is also interested in emotional processes involved in institutional practices and relationships, especially in education. Marlies has a professional background in social work and support work with children and young people.
Dr Jessica MacLaren
Jessica is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Nursing Studies. She is currently working on a research project exploring the experiences of people with degenerative neuromuscular conditions who are living with a ventilator at home. Jessica’s PhD employed narrative inquiry to explore mental health nurses’ and midwives experiences of professional development and support through supervision. In particular Jessica used the sociologist Arlie Hochschild’s construct of ‘feeling rules’ to understand nurses’ and midwives’ emotional experiences of supervision. As a Registered Mental Health Nurse she has had clinical experience in Acute Psychiatry, and Community Mental Health Care.
Jessica is interested in exploring emotions as both individual and embodied processes, and also as communal, shared, and shaped according to normative understandings.
Prof Pam Smith
Pam Smith is Professorial Fellow, Nursing Studies in the School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh and a Visiting Professor in Nursing, King’s College London. She is a graduate of the University of Manchester’s Bachelor of Nursing programme where she qualified as a registered nurse, district nurse and health visitor (1970). Pam undertook postgraduate studies at London University where she obtained a certificate in adult education (Garnet College), an MSc in Medical Sociology (Bedford College) and her PhD on how student nurses learn to care (King’s College). Pam has worked as a nurse and teacher in Tanzania, Mozambique and Britain and as a nurse researcher in Britain and the USA. She spent 1989-90 with Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild at the University of California at Berkeley, developing the application of emotional labour to nursing. Former posts include Head of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh (2010-13), General Nursing Council Trust Chair in Nurse Education and Director of the Centre for Research in Nursing and Midwifery Education at the University of Surrey (2002-2008), Professor of Nursing, London South Bank University (1997-2001) and Director of Nursing Research and Development, Camden and Islington Health Authority (1988-92).