Lucy Robinson is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Sussex who researches identity and activism in Britain. Published by Manchester University Press and a finalist in last year's Erotic Awards Lucy is currently collaborating with fellow Salonite Sarah King working with Falklands veterans diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I went to Oxford Brookes University as a mature student and took a joint honours degree in English Studies with History. I then moved to Sussex to take the English Literature masters programme, Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change. After which I moved back into History for my Dphil research, 'Gay Men and the Revolutionary Left in Britain since 1957 - Tracing the development of Identity Politics', which was awarded in 2003. It was published as 'Gay Men and the Left in Post-war Britain: How the personal got political' by MUP in 2007. Since my appointment at Sussex I have been developing teaching and research in the History of the 1980s.

My research so far has covered the history of sexuality, identity politics and the Left throughout the twentieth century. I also work on the history of youth and youth culture (particularly counter-culture) as well as on popular culture, the theatre and literature. Specific research areas have been: Homosexual law reform, Gay Liberation and the sixties more generally, activism and terrorism, Counter-culture, Labour Party history, the 'Loony Left', Punk, Anti-Nazism and Rock against Racism, Paedophile organisations, sexual communities, the campaigns around AIDS and reality TV. I have given interviews for documentaries looking at various different identity groups from Mods and Rockers to doggers and written for The Guardian.

Her book 'Gay Men and the Left in Post-war Britain: How the personal became political', is published by Manchester University Press and was a finalist in last year's Erotic Awards.

I now work on the 1980s and I am currently developing a research project on the Falklands War with a particular focus on the politics of culture both during the conflict and in its later representations and in Veteran's experiences.

'Gay Men and the Left in Post-war Britain - How the personal got political' is out with MUP

http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1824

"Robinson is sharp on the way that the Labour Party's move away from class politics to address people as groups of consumers laid the basis for the emergence of identity politics in later years. " James Heartfield Spiked online

"Lucid, perceptive and wide-ranging, this book records with impressive skill a vital chapter of a our recent social and sexual history" Terry Eagleton

I am a finalist in writer's category of the 2008 Erotic Awards. See my blog about the awards here http://manchesteruniversitypressblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/erotic-awards-2008.html

In 2008 I received a University of Sussex Teaching Award