Dr Lisa Overton

Senior Lecturer in Politics

Lisa Overton

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Law and Social Sciences

  • Location London

Research activities

  • Gender
  • Sexualities 
  • Youth and lifecourse
  • Disasters, Crisis and Climate Catastrophe 
  • International Development
  • Qualitative and Creative Research Methods

    • Current Teaching

    I supervise Undergraduate and Postgraduate dissertations within the Faculty focused on gender, sexualities and youth. 

    PhD Supervision: 

    Co-supervisor with Anastasia Christou and Meri Juntti for Manasa Saravanan: Women’scommunity-based climate adaptation using indigenous local knowledges in India

    I am developing a new module alongside Professor Sarah Bradshaw for our Masters programmes within Law and Social Sciences:

  • Intersectionality in Practice

    • I am the Module Leader for:

  • Human Rights and Sustainable Development (masters module)
  • Ethical Research and Project Management + Undergraduate Dissertations (co-lead)


    • Biography

    Iam a queer feminist academic working on intersectionalities linked togendered-sexualities, crisis and disaster, particularly in relation to age and lifecourse. I am interested in everyday lives and experiences andexpanding the definition of what we mean by disaster. 

    Ihave worked and researched on gendered issues across the globe - Sri Lanka, NewOrleans, USA, the U.K. and 'International Development' more generally. This hasincluded collaborations with Oxfam, UNRISD and Plan International. 

    My current work explores notions of gender, relationships, sexual consent, pleasure and danger. 

    Key projects include:

    The Queer Dating Project (internally funded) - this project explores queerspaces of dating and relationships with creative poster-style outputs via our Instagram page @thequeerdatingproject 

    Sexual Misconduct and Gender Discrimination Higher Education - this is a creative nonfiction on the crisis of sexual and genderdiscrimination in higher education.

    Hazards, Disasters, Climate Change and Sexual and Gender Diversity - this is co-edited book forthcoming within the Routledge Series Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

    Editors: Dale Dominey-Howes, Lisa Overton, Ashleigh Rushton, Haorui Wu, William Leonard, Marcilyn Cianfarani and Dana Greene. 

    Engendering Development: Critical reflections ongender and development - this project is a co-edited book forthcoming through Edward Elgar.

    Editors: Sarah Bradshaw, Brian Linneker, Rebeca Cruz and Lisa Overton. 

    LGBTQ+ Engagement and Understanding of Cervical Screening - this is a survey project lead by Britta Stordal as part of a wider project on cervical screening. 

    External activities

  • Guest Expert - Sexualities and Disasters, University College London,

    • Prizes and Awards

  • The Plaza Prize First Chapters 2024 - Longlisted, Plaza Literary,

    • Publications

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