Category Archives: Research Spotlight
Turning to Charity: British Shell-Shocked Veteran
Representation and reception of autistic characters in children’s picturebooks
Over the last 3 years, I have been researching the representation and reception of autistic characters in children’s picturebooks. This is a passion project, bourne out of frustration. Years of struggling to find suitable picturebooks to support my own autistic daughter (now aged 23), the children who I teach and the families who visit my bookshop, resulted in determination to improve the situation.
Beyond the Label: Finding the Human Story in Addiction and Recovery Memoirs
Rewriting Schizophrenia: How Memoirs Challenge Medical Narratives
My research envisages a comprehensive examination of the epistemic ripples created by the memoirs in the dominant scholarship concerning schizophrenia. It hopes to accentuate the voices of the otherwise marginalised patients, effectively reclaiming their agency over the self, language, and knowledge.
From silence to struggle: British Asians fighting racism 1960–2001
Finding British and Indian Women’s Encounters in the Colonial Archive
Welcome to our Research Spotlight series, where we invite postgraduate researchers and early career researchers to submit short-form articles that sheds light on their research to highlight fresh scholarship specifically on underrepresented research areas in an effort to stay abreast with new voices in the humanities. In this article, Tarini Bhamburkar illustrates how periodicals are… Read More »