Hazel Marsh

I am Professor of Cultural Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. My research is interdisciplinary, and focuses on issues concerning social and cultural justice, the politics of representation, the creative arts and community action, culture and disaster risk reduction, music and social movements, conflict and displacement, education, health and environmental inequalities, and the contributions of Romani and Traveller groups to the societies they live in. I have worked in Venezuela, Mexico, India, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, and Britain.   

Recent and ongoing research projects include: ‘Romani and Traveller voices in English music archives’, ‘Strengthening Romani voices in Colombia’, and ‘Improving post-pandemic maternal and neonatal health: a participatory approach with Indigenous women in Colombia’, funded by UEA’s Impact Acceleration Account; 'Making History Months Count: Embedding Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month in the Public History Calendar’, AHRC Standard Research grant; ‘Voices of Recovery: recognising intersecting risks, capacities and pandemic recovery needs in marginalised communities of Latin America’, funded by AHRC, IDRC, FAPESP (via the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities); ‘Recovery with Dignity’, a GCRF project funded by British Academy, with research in three states of India; ‘Moving with Risk: forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia’, a GCRF project funded via ESRC/AHRC, and; ‘The art of disaster risk reduction’, a GCRF impact project funded by AHRC.

I have collaborated with Patrin Films, the UK's first Romani-led film collective, to produce 'A Basket Full of Eggs' (18 minutes, 2025), a documentary focusing on the contributions of Romani Gypsies and Travellers to British folk music styles and repertoires. 

My research interests include popular music and social activism, politics and popular culture, the creative arts and community action, collective memory and identity, culture and disaster risk reduction, music and social movements, heritage studies, intercultural health, and the contributions of Romani and Traveller groups to the societies they live in. 

My book Hugo Chávez and Alí Primera in Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) analyses the use of popular music in the construction of political discourses in Venezuela during the Chávez period. 

I have convened and/or taught on the following UG/PGT modules:

• Academic and Research Skills 
• MA Dissertation Language and Communication Studies 
• An Introduction to Popular Culture in Latin America 
• Introduction to World Languages and Cultures 
• Film and Society in Latin America
• Latin America and the World 
• Dissertation in Language and Culture 
• Introduction to Contemporary Politics 
• Politics in the USA
• Decolonising Knowledge Production
• Gender in Study

Participatory Action Research; arts-based methods; decolonising methodologies; Latin American Studies; Romani Studies; migration and forced displacement; politics of popular culture; popular music and activism; collective memory and identity; racialisation and minoritisation; social justice; Indigenous politics; race and ethnicity.

Participatory Action Research; arts-based methods; decolonising methodologies; Latin American Studies; Romani Studies; migration and forced displacement; politics of popular culture; popular music and activism; collective memory and identity; racialisation and minoritisation; social justice; Indigenous politics; race and ethnicity.