Alice Menzel

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor

Contact details

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

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)

https://www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-groups/sociology-of-emotions-study-group/convenors/

Newsletter Manager Centre for Urban Wellbeing (2021 – present)

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-urban-wellbeing/staff/urban-wellbeing-team.aspx

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Menzel, A 2024, '‘The only thing missing now is her being on the outside’: bodily borders/boundaries within father-foetal bonding interactions for UK expectant fathers', Gender Place and Culture A Journal of Feminist Geography, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2024.2358423

Singh, S, Pykett, J, Kraftl, P, Guisse, A, Hodgson, E, Humelnicu, UE, Keen, N, Kéïta, S, McNaney, N, Menzel, A, N’dri, K, N’goran, KJ, Oldknow, G, Tiéné, R & Weightman, W 2023, 'Understanding the ‘degree awarding gap’ in geography, planning, geology and environmental sciences in UK higher education through peer research', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 227-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2021.2007363

Kraftl, P, Hadfield-Hill, S, Jarman, P, Lynch, I, Menzel, A, Till, R & Walker, A 2022, 'Articulating encounters between children and plastics', Childhood, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 478-494. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682221100879

Kraftl, P, Lynch, I, Jarman, P, Menzel, A, Walker, A, Till, R & Hadfield-Hill, S 2021, 'So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics', Children's Geographies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2021.1875124, https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2021.1875124

Menzel, A 2021, 'The Coronavirus pandemic: exploring expectant fathers' experiences', Journal for Cultural Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2021.2002668

Master's Thesis

Menzel, A 2019, 'Loving Fathers. Relationships, Care and Support: Exploring Love in the Everyday Geographies of Fathering'. <https://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/12530/>

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