Elisabeth Sandler

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Elisabeth Sandler

Researcher

Department/College

About

Elisabeth Sandler (she/her) is a fully funded Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her intersectional PhD research, supervised by Professor Sarah Franklin and Dr Marcin Smietana, explores the coming and being out experiences of LGBTQIA+ identifying Cambridge students and staff members. In addition to theory development, the findings from this study will generate action points that can be used to improve the lives of LGBTQIA+ students and university employees within the UK and beyond. This piece of research is a continuation and expansion of the ‘Out at Cambridge’ study (lgbtQ+@cam), for which Elisabeth worked as a full-time researcher in 2019.

Her academic background is in Educational Sciences (BA, University of Innsbruck), Research Training (MSc, University of Oxford), and Reproductive Sociology (MPhil, University of Cambridge). Elisabeth’s teaching focusses on qualitative research methods, gender, sexuality, family sociology, and includes organisations such as the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of Salzburg (Austria), University of Hamburg (Germany), and ViaX (China).

Research Interests

gender and sexuality studies, LGBTQIA+ studies, family sociology, non-normativity and identity theories, intersectionality, qualitative research methods, creative interview methods (e.g. sensory methodology, activities)

Teaching

Social Science Research Methods Programme (SSRMP) (postgraduate students & staff members):

- 'An overview of qualitative data collection and analysis' (lecture) (Michaelmas terms 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

- 'Qualitative research rigour' (lecture) (Lent terms 2021, 2022, 2023 & Michaelmas terms 2022. 2023)

- 'Diary methodology' (lecture with workshop) (Lent terms 2021, 2022, 2023 & Michaelmas term 2023)

Bioscience Enterprise (postgraduate students):

- 'Skill session: Qualitative research methods' (lecture with workshop) (Lent terms 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

- Supervising postgraduate students on their qualitative MPhil research (Lent terms 2020, 2021)

Human, Social, and Political Sciences (undergraduate students):

- Undergraduate dissertation supervisor (Michaelmas & Lent term 2021)

- Soc10 Gender: 'Sex and Sexualities' (undergraduate supervision) (Lent term 2021)

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (undergraduate students):

- PBS8 The Family: 'Introduction to the Sociology of the Family' (undergraduate supervision) (Michaelmas term 2020)

Laidlaw Leadership and Research Programme

- Research project supervisor (Easter term + summer 2023)

Publications

Sandler, E. T. (2022). LGBTQ+ Inclusion at Universities: Testimonies and Recommendations from the ‘Out at Cambridge’ Study. In: K. Schnegg, C. Voithofer, M. Auer, & J. Tschuggnall (Eds.), Inter- und multidisziplinäre Perspektiven der Geschlechterforschung. Innsbrucker Gender Lectures IV (pp. 119–152). Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. DOI: 10.15203/99106-067-3-08

Sandler, E. T. (2022). Teaching and Learning Guide for: An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three-lens typology. Sociology Compass, e12982, 1–22. DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12982

Sandler, E. T. (2022). An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three-lens typology. Sociology Compass, e12958, 1–48. DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12958.

Sandler, E. T. (2021). Identities. In: G. Sutherland & K. Williams (Eds.), Walking on the Grass, Dancing in the Corridors. Newnham at 150 (p. 253). Profile Books Ltd. ISBN : 9781788167475

lgbtQ+@cam (2019). Out at Cambridge: Why LGBTQ+ disclosure matters to individuals and institutions, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. https://www.lgbtq.sociology.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/copy_of_out-at-cambridge.pdf

Elisabeth Sandler

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