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Polly Winfield

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Polly Winfield

Dr, Miss

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2825-1509

  • 3 EAST 2.24

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Research interests

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences. My work is interested in what happens after societies experience violence. I am interested in social and political cultures in transitional and post-conflict settings, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. My doctoral research connects intersectional, affective, spatial and intergenerational narrations of memories of violence to historical injustice in South Africa, with a focus on participatory methodologies. My PhD is entitled Between Recognition and Resistance: Navigating memories of violence and injustice in Hillbrow and Constitution Hill. 

I have previously worked on the Horizon 2020 Disputed Territories and Memory (DisTerrMem) project between 2019 - 2023. Presently, I am contributing to two projects on contested memory and postcoloniality. 

Wider teaching and research interests in qualitative and participatory methodologies, human rights, transitional justice, violence and state violence, peacebuilding and humanitarianism, race and ethnicity, historical injustice, youth and gender, legacies of colonialism and decolonisation. 

I am an accredited Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). I completed my MA Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies at King's College London, then moved to the University of Bath for my ESRC-funded 1+3 MRes/PhD Security, Conflict and Human Rights. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

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):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  6. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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