Dressed Bodies Symposium
The ‘If the Shoe Fits’ project team hosted a one-day symposium at Sheffield University on 17th July 2013. The stellar line-up of speakers included Lucia Ruggerone, Naomi Braithwaite, Anna Catalini, Karen Harvey, Julia Twigg and Chrissy Buse, Karin Lovgren, Mary Madden, Emily Taylor, Emily Nicholls, Jacki Willson, Alison Carr and Pam Walker.
Dressed Bodies: A Symposium - registration now open
To mark the end of the three-year research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identity and Transition, funded by the ESRC, we are hosting an interdisciplinary symposium in conjunction with the Centre for Gender Research.
Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear
As we enter the last 4 months of the If the Shoe Fits project the team are analysing and writing up the data that has been gathered over the last 3 years. At the end of February the first of our publications made it into the peer-reviewed journal Sociological Research Online.
Call for Papers: 'Dressed Bodies: A Symposium'
To mark the end of the three-year research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identity and Transition, funded by the ESRC, we are hosting an interdisciplinary symposium in conjunction with the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Sheffield. We invite submissions investigating the dressed body in social and cultural contexts with a concern to deepen understandings of identity as an embodied process.
Graduation shoes
Professor Jenny Hockey offers an anthropological perspective on graduation shoes and rites of passage.
Northampton Shoe Museum Sneaker Speaker Symposium
Little Black Dress Exhibition Review
'Walking in My Shoes'
Jenny Hockey reviews the Cuming Museum’s exhibition of historic and contemporary shoes to consider identity and the way what is worn on the feet speaks to the mobilities evoked, both literally and metaphorically.
Red peep-toes and Italian heels
Jenny Hockey reflects on her own shoe stories and the inspiration behind the 3-year ESRC-funded research project ‘If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identity and Transition’ at the University of Sheffield (2010-2013).
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If the shoe fits:
FootweaR, Identity & Transition
The Footwear Research Network is an outcome of the ESRC-funded research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear Identity and Transition at the University of Sheffield (2010-2013). Learn more about the project and research outputs here.
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The Footwear Research Network is an outcome of the ESRC-funded research project If the Shoe Fits: Footwear Identity and Transition at the University of Sheffield (2010-2013).
Learn more here
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Watch the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ documentary to learn more about the research project and the relationship between wearers and their shoes. Filmed and produced by Sheffield Vision.
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Learn more about the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ research team and board of advisors.
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Following the success of the original ITSF project, further funding was secured in 2015 for a follow-on project, ‘If the Shoe Fits: Enabling Patient-Centred Podiatry’.
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A number of papers and publications were produced directly from the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ research and in association with the project. Access the full list here.