Lydia Martens
Lydia Martens is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University.
Research
Martens is a member of the panel assessing the impact of the commercial world on children as part of The Children's Plan (DCSF), report due in March 2009. Also on the panel are David Buckingham (Chair), Sonia Livingstone and Brian Young. [1]
According to Martens's university profile, she has "Research interests in consumption infused with an interest in gender and the specific ways in which feminists have engaged with consumption... intersections between consumption and domestic life... and the adult child dimension of consumer culture".[2]
Martens has submitted a chapter for Buckingham and Tingstad's edited collection due out in 2010, 'Childhood and Consumer Culture'.
Martens was awarded £18,000 ESRC grant for a Seminar series on 'Mothers, Markets and Consumption' (2008-10)[3]
Personal Information
Curriculum Vitae
- Durham University (2000-2006)
- University of Stirling (1997-2000)
Contact
- Address:
- Room CBC 0.018
- Research Institute for Life Course Studies
- Keele University
- Claus Moser Research Centre
- Keele
- Staffordshire
- ST5 5BG
- Phone:
- +44 (0) 1782 734125
- Email:
- l.d.martens@appsoc.keele.ac.uk
