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The ‘If the Shoe Fits’ project in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield is now approaching its end, however there is still time to participate in the research.

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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.

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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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Learn more about the ‘If the Shoe Fits’ research team and board of advisors.

  • 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.