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Sharon Lockyer is a Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University,
West London, UK. Prior to joining Brunel University Sharon spent 4 and ½ years as
a Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Before that
she taught and researched in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University,
UK, where she gained her PhD for a thesis entitled 'An Eye to Offensiveness: The
Discourse of Offence and Censure in Private Eye'. Sharon’s research interests include
humour studies, sociology of journalism, and media constructions of social problems.
Sharon’s humour research focuses on the ethics and aesthetics of humour in everyday
life and mediated comedy. She is particularly interested in instances where humour
and comedy excite social tension and moral controversy. She also explores theoretical,
practical and methodological issues related to the study of humour. In July 2004
Sharon won the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) Emerging Scholar Award.
She is co-editor (with Michael Pickering) of Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour
(Palgrave, 2005) and she has published numerous articles on humour and comedy (Discourse
& Society; International Journal of Social Research Methodology; Journalism Studies).
Her research on the sociology of journalism and media constructions of social problems
centres on how local media negotiate and report risks posed by paedophiles-living-in-the-community.
Articles based on this research have been published in Ethical Space: The International
Journal of Communication Ethics, Journalism Studies and Communication Ethics Today
(Troubador, 2006) – all with Dr Simon Cross, University of Lincoln. Sharon is Convenor
of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Sociology of Media Study Group.
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