Kirsten Forkert

• Cultural Studies
• Migration Studies
• Sociology
• Critical Race Theory
• Feminism
• Nationalism
• Refugees
• Populism
• Arts-based methodologies

• PhD, Media and Communications (Goldsmiths, University of London)
• MA Interdisciplinary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
• BA Media Arts (NSCAD University, Canada)
• PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, BCU

• Editorial Collective, Soundings; A Journal of Politics and Culture
• Editorial group, Lawrence and Wishart Publishers
• Academic Peer Reviewer, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College
• British Sociological Association (BSA), European Communication and Research Association (ECREA), Political Studies Association (PSA)
• Berlin- Britain Network, Humboldt University, Germany

• MED5184 Race, Ethnicity and the Media
• MED7333 Researching Media Cultures

• Conflict, Memory, Displacement (AHRC-funded, 2015-2017)
  
• Mapping Immigration Controversy (ESRC-funded, 2014-2015)

• Martin Cox: Art and Cultural Impact: Exploring Alternative Models for Creative Practices, Policy and Sustainability in Contemporary Urban Space (AHRC- funded)
• Christian Moerken: The Cultural Value of the Book in the Era of Digitisation
• Ian Sergeant: Visual representations of black British masculinity in the city of Birmingham (AHRC-funded)
• Sarah Walden: The Sensuousness of Error: Investigating glitch, complexity, synaesthesia and new materialism in contemporary media arts (AHRC-funded)

Books:

Forkert, K; Bhattacharyya, G., Oliveri, F., Graham, J. How media and conflicts make migrants. Manchester University Press, 2020.

Jones, H., Gunaratnam, Y., Bhattacharyya, G., Davies, W., Dhaliwal, S., Forkert, K, Jackson, E., Saltus, R., 2017. Go Home? The politics of immigration controversies.Manchester University Press, 2017.

Forkert, K, 2017. Austerity as public mood: social anxieties and social struggles.Rowman & Littlefield International.

Forkert, K., 2013. ArtisticLives:A study of creativityi n two Europeancities. Abingdon: Routledge.

Selected journal articles

Pettinger, L., Forkert, K., Goffey, A., 2016. ‘The Promises of Creative Industry Higher Education: an analysis of university prospectuses in Malaysia’. International journal of cultural policy, 1-9.

Forkert, K., 2016. ‘Austere creativity and volunteer-run public services: the case of Lewisham’s libraries’. New Formations 87, 11-28.

Dhaliwal, S., and Forkert, K., 2015. ‘Deserving and undeserving migrants’. Soundings 61, 49-61.

Forkert, K., 2014. ‘The new moralism: austerity, debt morality and silencing’. Soundings: A journal of politics and culture 56, 41-53.

Selected book chapters

Forkert, K, ‘Not an international health service: Brexit, the NHS and the restoration of national sovereignty?’. Contested Britain ed. Marius Guderjan, Gesa Stedman and Hugh McKay. Bristol: Policy Press (forthcoming 2020).

Forkert K., Jackson, E., Jones., H., 2016. ‘Whose Feelings Count? Performance Politics, Emotion and Government Immigration Control’. In: Eleanor Jupp, Jessica Pykett and Fiona Smith, eds. Emotional States: Sites and spaces of affective governance. London: Routledge, 177-190.