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Dr Annabel Tremlett

Name: Annabel Tremlett
Title: Dr
Qualifications: PhD (King's College London 2008);MRes (King’s College London 2003); MA in Critical and Cultural Theory (Cardiff University 1998); BA (Hons) in English Literature (Cardiff University 1997)
Department: SHSSW
Address: James Watson West, 2 King Richard 1st Road, Portsmouth, P01 2FR
Email: annabel.tremlett@port.ac.uk
Telephone: 023 9284 2839

What is your role on the Professional Doctorate?

I have been the internal assessor for a number of prof docs and am also in a supervisory team.

What is your background?

I completed my PhD at King’s College London in 2008, entitled ‘Representations of Roma minorities: public discourses and local practices’ which included 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Hungary (ESRC funded). After my PhD, I spent 3 months on a British Academy funded ‘institutional visit’ to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, where I carried out post-doctoral research. I teach on research methods and different aspects of social inclusion on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Professional Area of Social Work at the University of Portsmouth.

What are your research interests?

I am interested in the interface between public and local representations of minority groups and social inclusion in Europe, with a particular interest in Roma minorities and post-EU accession migrants. Along with a passion for using innovative research methods for marginalised groups such as ‘photo elicitation’, I also enjoy using a critical application of approaches from sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies.

How many times have you supervised as:-

Director of Studies (completed supervisions only) - 4 x MSc Social Work dissertations (2009-10), 8 x MSc Social Work dissertations (2010-11)

2nd Supervisor (completed supervisions only) - many

Publications (up to three)

Forthcoming 2012. ‘Why must Roma minorities be always seen on the stage and never in the audience? Children’s opinions of reality Roma TV'. In Havens, T. Imre, A. Lustyik, K. (eds.) Entertaining the New Europe: Popular Television in Socialist and Postsocialist Eastern Europe (London: Routledge)

2009. ‘Claims of ‘knowing’ in ethnography: realising anti-essentialism through a critical reflection on language acquisition in fieldwork'. In The Graduate Journal of Social Science (GJSS), special issue Lost (and found) in Translation, December, pp.63-85. This can be viewed on GJSS website

2009. ‘Bringing hybridity to heterogeneity: Roma and the question of ‘difference’ in Romani Studies’ Romani Studies 5. Vol.19, No.2, pp. 147-168.

Current Projects:

Currently, I am using skills gained through my PhD to begin exploring experiences of migrants from Hungary in the UK, with a particular interest in migrants working as carers. I also maintain an interest in Roma minorities through collaborating with an art project on a local traveller site (http://www.aspex.org.uk/education/projects/sparcs) and continue international academic links through the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) academic network ‘Romanis in Europe’ (http://www.romanis.eu).

Define best research/education experience:

A turning point in my life was when I lived in Hungary from 2000-2002 as part of a pan-European youth programme. My experiences in Hungary, including grassroots work with Roma children and families, motivated me to do postgraduate studies that included 15 months of ethnographic research in a primary school in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.

Favourite relevant quote:

“Sok kicsi sokra megy” (Hungarian saying – ‘Many small actions will amount to a lot’)