Research

BA (Hons) Creative Writing (recipient of the Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the UEL Community) and MSc Library Science with Distinction (recipient of the Catherine Hamilton Prize for Outstanding LIS Dissertation).

Below are my publications, then conferences and guest lectures, and finally my Masters-level work.

Click here for my Humanities Commons research repository.

Publications

Dodd, S., and Bawden, D. (2023) A Qualitative Narrative Exploration of the Value of Public Libraries in the United Kingdom, The Library Quarterly. Available at: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/729227 or download PDF here.

Masserano, E. and Dodd, S. (2023) ‘Creative Practice as Community Education.’ NAWE Writing in Education. Issue 89, Spring 2023, pp.21-25. Available at: https://www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-education/nawe-magazine/current-issue.html or download PDF here.

Dodd, S., Maddison, S., Masserano, E., McWatt, T. (eds.) (2023) Lockdown Stories, London: University of East Anglia and University of Brighton. ISBN: 978-1-3999-2827-4. (Download PDF here. Print version available for loan at Bethnal Green Library, Canning Town Library, Tower Hamlets History Archives, and the Metropolitan Archives. Contact me for a press or research copy.)

Masserano, E., Dodd, S., Maddison, S. & McWatt, T. (2021) Stories of Covid-19: Social Pasts and Futures in the CityLife project, The Sociological Observer/Irish Journal of Sociology. Issue 3. Remaking Social Futures through Biographic, Narrative and Lifecourse Approaches: Story-Making and Story-Telling in Pandemic Times. Available at: https://sociology.ie/publication/the-sociological-observer/ (Issue 3) or download PDF here.

McWatt, T., Dodd, S. and Maddison, S. (eds.) (2015) EastLife: An Anthology of Life Writing, London: University of East London. ISBN: 978-1-9100-5635-6. (Download PDF here. Print version available for loan at Bethnal Green Library, Canning Town Library, Tower Hamlets History Archives, and the Metropolitan Archives. Contact me for a press or research copy.)

Conferences & Guest Lectures

‘Stories of Covid-19: Social Pasts and Futures in the CityLife Project’ (abstract) at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Bringing Creative Writing into the Community conference. Speaker and co-contributor, December 2022. As part of CityLife. (Download presentation)

‘Stories Not Statistics: An Autoethnographical & Narrative Exploration of the Value of Public Libraries’ (abstract) at ASIS&T Untold Stories in Information Science #IST22 conference. Speaker, June 2022. (Download presentation)

‘Stories, Communities, and Public Libraries’ to OLIve, University of East London. Guest Lecturer, April 2022. (Download presentation)

Reimagining Voices and Identities in Uncertain Times: Social Transformation, Fragmentation and Post-Pandemic Futures conference, Sociological Association of Ireland. Co-contributor, March 2022. As part of CityLife.

Futures of Creative Writing conference, ‘Community Voices’ roundtable, University of East Anglia. Speaker and co-contributor, May 2021. As part of CityLife.