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Dr Karen Stockham

MA Education Programme Leader

Faculty of Education and Social Sciences

01752 636888Ext: kstockham@marjon.ac.uk

Qualifications

My PhD is in English (Mountaineering Literature) and I teach across the fields of Education Management and Outdoor Education.

I also hold Masters' degrees in English, Sociology and Education and a postgraducate qualification in Management.

Teaching

I have an inter-disciplinary teaching background which reflects my wide-ranging and eclectic interests. Before coming to Plymouth Marjon University I taught on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English Literature, Leisure Studies, Youth & Community Work, Sociology and Women's Studies at various UK universities.

Research

My research background is inter-disciplinary and encompasses Leisure Studies, English Literature, Education and Sociology. I currently write and publish in the field of Auto/Biography in Mountaineering. My research interests include women's unpublished mountaineering literature (diaries, letters, correspondence). I am currently researching the nature of the 'feminine stamp' in mountaineering literature, exploring the myriad ways in which women write their relationship to mountaineering.

Previous research has included:

Researching biodiversity in the Yorkshire Dales and Dartmoor National Parks
Collaborative research into young disabled people and school sport
National Lottery funding (clothing for disabled young people)

Publications

Publications:

80 years on- a celebration of Dorothy Pilley's Climbing Days. Alpine Club Journal, 2015

Other publications include two articles on mountaineering autobiography for the British Sociological Association's Auto/Biography Journal and a chapter on women's mountaineering in Victorian Women's Travel (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016)

Recent Conference Papers

Summer 2015; 'The feminine stamp: women's mountaineering literature' University of Alberta, Canada

2015 Dartington Hall 'Educating Dorothy': Mountaineering as women's education'

2014, British Library; 'From our correspondents': mountaineers at war 1914-1918

2014, 'Women's Mountaineering Literature' Sodertorn Univerisity, Stockholm

2014 'Home is Just another range of mountains'

2012 'Autobiography in Mountaineering Literature' for the University of Newcastle's 'Moving Dangerously' conference

Professional memberships

International Auto/Biography Association
Higher Education Academy

Other Interests

I started collecting mountaineering literature 30 years ago and now have an extensive private library of mountaineering and alpine literature. I have always been adventurous and can include rock-climbing, caving & potholing, mountain-biking and touring cycling among my outdoor interests.

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