Lo Marshall
Contact
Lo (Laura) Marshall
Postgraduate researcher
Email: Lo.marshall.13@ucl.ac.uk
UCL Department of Geography
University College London
North-West Wing
Gower Street
London.
WC1E 6BT
Supervisors
Dr Ben Campkin (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Urban Laboratory)
Prof Ann Varley (UCL Geography)
Related Projects:
Doctoral research: Making Sense of Gender: Exploring gender diversity through the experiences of people with trans identities and histories
UCL Urban Laboratory: LGBTQ+ nightlife in London, UCL Urban Laboratory
Msc Urban Studies project: Transforming Spaces
Research
Making Sense of Gender: Exploring gender diversity through the experiences of people with trans identities and histories
Making Sense of Gender is a participatory, scholar/activist doctoral project that explores geographies of gender diversity through the lived experiences of women, men and non-binary people with trans identities and histories living in British cities. The project is shaped by critical engagements with strands of medicine, psychiatry, feminism, queer studies and trans studies, as well as ethical concerns regarding the politics of knowledge production and hierarchies. In doing so, I am interested in considering the implications of taking a person’s sense of self seriously as legitimate a source of knowledge and starting point for research. By combining participant photography, narrative writing/speaking and in-depth semi-structured interviews, it will investigate how trans peoples’ voices might productively complicate prevailing political, academic, and social understandings of gender.
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
Publications
Campkin, B., and Marshall, L (2018) London's nocturnal queer geographies, Soundings: Telling political stories, Issue 70
Campkin, B., Marshall, L. and Ross, R. (2018) Urban Pamphleteer #7: LGBTQ+ Night-time Spaces: Past, Present and Future, UCL Urban Laboratory
Marshall, L (2017), Castle and Cell: Exploring Intersections between Sexuality and Gender in the Domestic Lives of Men with Trans Identities and Histories, in Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression, Brent Pilkey, Rachael M. Scicluna, Ben Campkin, Barbara Penner (eds.), London: Bloomsbury
Campkin, B. and Marshall, L. (2017) LGBTQ+ Cultural Infrastructure in London: Night Venues, 2006-present (pdf), UCL Urban Laboratory
Campkin, B. and Marshall, L. (2016) LGBTQI nightlife spaces in London from 1986 until the present, UCL Urban Laboratory
Biography
I am an urban geographer researching sexuality and gender. My doctoral research explores gender diversity in British cities through the experiences of people with trans identities and histories.
Work
Co-investigator, LGBTQ+ Cultural Infrastructure in London: Night Venues, 2006-present, UCL Urban Laboratory, commission by the Greater London Authority
Research assistant, LGBTQI nightlife spaces in London from 1986 until the present, UCL Urban Laboratory, RAZE Collective, Queer Spaces Network 2016
Co-curator with B. Campkin, Queer Nightlife Salon, Museum of London - Feb 2018
Co-curator and project manager, Manual Labour, a collaboration with David L Martin and John Reardon, 2013
Guest lecturer, Sexualities and cities, MSc Urban Studies, UCL - 2016, 2017
Guest lecturer, London's LGBTQ+ nightlife scenes, London Club Cultures, Syracuse University - 2017
Guest lecturer, Gender diversity, Gender Society and Representation, MA Gender and Sexuality - 2017, 2018
Guest lecturer, LGBTQ+ nightlife, Critical Introduction to Sexuality Studies - 2018, 2019
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Gender, Society and Representation MA, UCL – 2014 – on-going
Presentations
Negotiating gender diverse worlds built on binary expectations: The Kenwood Ladies Pond, a paper presented at Sites Queer conference, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan Puerto Rico, 9 February 2019.
Queer heritage and its contradictions, co-presented with Prof Ben Campkin at HDK Academy of Design and Crafts, part of Gothenburg Design Week, Gothenburg, Sweden, 24 October 2018
LGBTQ+ Nightlife in London, co-presented with Prof Ben Campkin at Building Diversity workshop, TU Delft, Netherlands, 16 May 2018
Queer Night Moves: LGBTQ+ venues and transport infrastructure, co-presented with Dr Ben Campkin at the Night Moves Symposium at UCL Transport Institute, London, 17 October 2017
Queer premises: geographies of LGBTQ+ night scenes and spaces in London, co-presented with Dr Ben Campkin at the ‘Never gonna dance again’: memorials to lost, legendary nights out, symposium at Sutton House, London, 20 September 2017
LGBTQ nightlife in London, co-presented with Dr Ben Campkin at the Camp-er-Van, Tate Modern, London, 28 July 2017
Fabulous facades, dry details: queer premises on fun. Performance given at Queer Fun: An ivory tower vaudeville, Duckie, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London, 10 June 2017
LGBTQ nightlife in London. A paper co-presented with Dr Ben Campkin at LGBTQI Work Life/Night LifeUCL, for qUCL, at UCL, London, 2 May 2017
LGBTQ nightlife in London: 1986 – 2016, research co-presented with Ben Campkin to the Raze Collective queer performers network at Oval House, London, 10 November 2016
(Trans)forming gender, disrupting dichotomies: Exploring the lives of people with trans identities and histories. A paper presented for Stadtkolloquium at LSE, London, 19 March 2015
Academic Background
MPhil/PhD researcher, Dept. of Geography, UCL, 2014 - on-going
MSc Urban Studies, UCL, 2013/2014
BA International Studies, Dept. of Politics, Goldsmiths, 2009-2012
Other positions and affiliations:
Affiliated PhD student, UCL Urban Laboratory
Affiliated PhD student, qUCL
PhD representative with Lioba Hirsch, UCL Department of Geography Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee.
Volunteer, Gendered Intelligence