Lydia Martens

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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

Resources

Notes

  1. Reply to FOI request from DCSF, received 26 February 2009
  2. Keele University website People, last modified 17 November 2008, accessed 6 April 2009
  3. Keele University website [Keele University website, Research activities: grants, projects, papers], accessed 6 April 2009