Research interests
Dr Galpin’s research focuses on a number of areas:
- The European public sphere, particularly media representation and the impact of social media
- European and national identities and their relationship to EU citizenship, legitimacy and transnational democracy
- Masculinities and gendered patterns of inclusion/exclusion in the public sphere
- Online and media abuse of women, LGBTQ+ and racialised people and the impact on democracy and citizenship
- Intersectional feminist theory and critical feminist methodologies
- She has a particular area focus on Germany and the UK.
Funded projects
Dr Galpin has worked on a number of funded research projects:
She is currently working on her second monograph, provisionally entitled ‘‘Gendering Europe: British national identity from EEC accession to EU secession”. This project was supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship between September 2022 and September 2023.
She was part of the Jean Monnet Network ‘Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the (De-)Legitimation of European Integration’ (2019-22) coordinated by the University of Iceland, for which she leads a work package focusing on the impact of disinformation and ‘post-truth’ on the European public sphere. She is particularly interested in the role of gender in dynamics of post-truth.
She was Co-Investigator on the major research project ‘Post-Socialist Britain: Memory, Representation and Political Identity amongst German and Polish Immigrants in the UK’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (2021-24). The PI by Professor Sara Jones (Modern Languages), and the second CI is Dr Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent). The project explores the connection between collective memory and political identity in the process of migration, focusing specifically on two countries with experience of state socialist rule, Germany and Poland. The project will also have a strong impact dimension, working with policy-makers, immigrant communities, arts communities, and professional and community associations.
She was a Co-Investigator on ‘Futures of German Diasporas’ (2022-23), an interdisciplinary visiting scholar programme funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
She was the Principle Investigator on the project ‘At the digital margins? Researching and communicating marginalisation in online political engagement’ (Spring 2022), funded by Research England’s QR Enhancing Research and Knowledge Exchange Funding Programme.
She was Co-Investigator on the two-year project “Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order” (January 2019 - December 2020, extended to 2021), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).