Alice Menzel

Alice Menzel

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
a.e.menzel@bham.ac.uk
Twitter

Alice is a feminist social and cultural geographer, specialising in the field of emotional geographies.

Her doctoral research critically examines the gendered, emotional experiences of expectant fathers across myriad everyday spaces/places (against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic).

Alice’s broader research interests include spatialities of family/parenting (and other intimate relationships), qualitative methods and social research on emotions and bodies.

Qualifications

PhD Human Geography, to be conferred 2024

  • Doctoral Thesis: The Emotional Geographies of Expectant Fathering

MA Social Research, 2019

MRes Research in Human Geography, 2018

  • Thesis title: Loving Fathers. Relationships, Care and Support: Exploring Love in the Everyday Geographies of Fathering
BA Geography, 2017

Teaching

Year 1

Tutorials and Study Skills for Geographers (Module Lead)

Contemporary Human Geography (Contributor)

Research Methods and GIS (Contributor)

First Year Tutor

Year 2

Social Geographies (Contributor)

Field Research Skills for Human Geography and Planning - Berlin Field course

Second Year Tutor

Year 3

Geographies of Childhood and Education (Contributor)

Dissertation Supervisor

Third Year Tutor

Other activities

  • Co-Convenor British Sociological Association ‘Sociologies of Emotions’ Study Group (2022 – present)

  • Newsletter Manager Centre for Urban Wellbeing (2021 – present)
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Publications

Recent publications

Article

Menzel, A 2024, '', Gender Place and Culture A Journal of Feminist Geography, pp. 1-24.

Singh, S, Pykett, J, Kraftl, P, Guisse, A, Hodgson, E, Humelnicu, UE, Keen, N, K茅茂ta, S, McNaney, N, Menzel, A, N鈥檇ri, K, N鈥檊oran, KJ, Oldknow, G, Ti茅n茅, R & Weightman, W 2023, '', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 227-247.

Kraftl, P, Hadfield-Hill, S, Jarman, P, Lynch, I, Menzel, A, Till, R & Walker, A 2022, '', Childhood, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 478-494.

Kraftl, P, Lynch, I, Jarman, P, Menzel, A, Walker, A, Till, R & Hadfield-Hill, S 2021, '', Children's Geographies. ,

Menzel, A 2021, '', Journal for Cultural Research.

Master's Thesis

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