Dr Lili Schwoerer
Lecturer in Sociology
School of Law and Social Sciences
Role
I joined Oxford Brookes as a Teaching Fellow in 2022, and became a Lecturer in 2024. I completed my PhD in Sociology at LSE in 2022. During this time, I also worked as a participatory research coordinator at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, and an assistant editor of the LSE Higher Education Blog. My research is anchored in intersectional feminist, anti-colonial and critical political economy approaches. At Brookes, I teach courses across sociology.
Teaching and supervision
Courses
Modules taught
In 2024-2025, I lead:
- SOCI4003 - Researching the Social World
- SOCI6005 - Theorising Society
- SOCI6009 - The Sociology of Health and Illness
- POLI6018 - Freedom and Justice in Contemporary Political Theory, Queer and Feminist Perspectives
Research
My research is interested the relationship between political economy, institutions, and knowledge. To explore this relationship, I draw on feminist and anticolonial theory and epistemology, Marxist political economy and theories of racial capitalism, and on the sociologies of knowledge and education. My PhD, which I completed in 2022, explored how feminist and gender knowledge production is shaped by the marketisation and internationalisation of Higher Education in England. I also have a keen interest in critical pedagogy and qualitative research methodologies, especially creative and participatory approaches. Here at Brookes, I lead the GPES Research Group on ‘Cultures, Identities and Divisions’.