Dr Tabitha Baker
- Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Law
- Weymouth House W404, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Dr. Tabitha Baker is a Senior Lecturer in Politics in the department of Humanities and Law, Faculty of Media and Communication. She gained her PhD in 2022 with her thesis entitled 'The Psychosocial Relationship between National Identity and Political Sentiment in England: 2016-2020' which explored the changing dynamics of national identity and political attitudes amongst rural citizens in the context of social, political, and economic change such as devolution in the United Kingdom, decolonisation, increasing globalisation, post-2008 austerity, Brexit, and the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Tabitha’s teaching spans across the BA Politics and MA Political Psychology programmes, teaching in areas of the Psychology of Politics, International Relations, and the History of Contemporary Britain. She currently holds a role as Programme Leader for the Foundation Certificate in Media and Communication.
Following on from her doctoral research, Tabitha’s research interests are multi-disciplinary and involve further exploring themes surrounding national, regional, and local identities, civic engagement, marginalisation and democratic empowerment, focussing on the South West region and Dorset area... She is currently working on a project exploring local democracy in BCP council, and working towards publishing articles using research from qualitative interviews on developing a psychological approach to understanding contemporary responses to colonial statues in Britain, and the contested nature of English Identity in contemporary Britain.
She welcomes cross-disciplinary collaboration and engagement with external local and third sector communities. She can be contacted at talicebaker@bournemouth.ac.uk.
moreExpertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Peace, justice and strong institutions
"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels"
