Alida Payson
Alida Payson is a lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in JOMEC. Her research interests are in everyday life, second-hand economies, and material culture. More widely, she is interested in the cultural politics of migration, gender, race, and disability, and in visual, creative and participatory research methods.
Payson have been working to build a network of second-hand studies researchers and practitioners. You can find more about our projects and activities on the Secondhand Cultures blog, available here: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcultures/
She recently finished a three-year project, Charity shop country: conviviality and survival in austerity Britain, funded by the Leverhulme Trust early career fellowship, and exploring how charity shops matter as sites of everyday living together and getting by in an austerity economy.
