Research
My research has two strands. Firstly, I am interested in the politics of recognition, including solidarity, in relation to citizenship within Europe. My monograph, Refugee Voice: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition is published by Routledge. Secondly, I am pursuing research into the intersection between the journalistic and humanitarian communication fields, and the construction of boundary work between them. I’m also interested in the intersection between psychoanalysis and the politics of recognition. My research has fed into two modules which I have designed and run: Participatory Media on the MA in Media Ethics Social Change and the forthcoming Community Media on the BA in Media and Journalism.
Research projects
2023 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant; European solidarity and refugee recognition in the context of the Ukraine refugee ‘crisis’ (P.I.)
Impact work
2023 AHRC Impact Accelerator Impact Builder (P.I.) Codifying refugee participation in arts and cultural institutions
2023 AHRC Community Impact Fellowship, University of Sussex
Selected publications
Sharp, R. (2024) Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition (London: Routledge) see here
Sharp R. and Stupart R. (2023) Friends like these: a shift in labour, security, and the normative ideals of conflict journalism. International Communication Gazette see here
Stupart, R. and Sharp, R. (2023) Saints and witnesses: Virtue and vocation in them memorialisation of the Western conflict journalist; Media War and Conflict see here