Research outputs per year
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Dr
Burnaby Road, Milldam
PO1 3AS Portsmouth
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am interested in supervising projects in my areas of expertise: women's cultural history of the twentieth century, women's magazines, feminist histories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Women's Liberation Movement, women's representation on television, cultural history of cookbooks
As Reader in Cultural History at the University of Portsmouth, I have interests in women's cultures, print media and feminism. I have published on the representation of women in a range of media including film, television and radio, and on women's writing. including the work of May Sinclair, a modernist writer. I am paticularly intersted in the way periodicals serve women's political and personal aspirations.
My research interests fall into a number of related areas including women’s writing, women’s cultures, feminism, and media representations of women. I have a particular research and publication interest in women’s magazines and their cultural contexts. Magazines, lifestyle television, television drama, novels, short stories and science fiction are all media forms and genres which interest me and have informed my writing. Recent publications include work on feminism and women’s magazines; modernism, war and May Sinclair; and 1970s British television. I have completed a monograph on women’s magazines, called Magazine Movements, which examines the political and social impact some magazines have had on British women’s history. I am currently preparing a second monograph on women's cultures and the media.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Ph.D., May Sinclair: the Life of the Mind, University of Sussex
Award Date: 1 Jan 2000
MA, Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, University of Sussex
Award Date: 1 Jun 1994
Editor of Women's History, Journal of the Women's History Network, Women's History Network
22 Nov 2018 → …
Editorial Advisor, The London Magazine
1 Sept 2016 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
1/07/20 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
Xu, Y., Garner, B., Pritchard, D., Andress, D., Siklodi, N., Forster, L., Leddy-Owen, C. & Bedford, D.
1/01/19 → 31/07/20
Project: Research
1/08/18 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Laurel Forster (Guest editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Laurel Forster (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Laurel Forster (Reviewer)
Activity: Grant Peer-Review › Grant Peer-Reviewer (External)
Laurel Forster (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Connor Cleary (Organiser), Evan Pugh (Organiser), Lincoln Geraghty (Participant) & Laurel Forster (Presented paper)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course