Dr Lance Peng
Research Associate
Lance situates his academic identity as operating across research production and institutional-impact ecologies.
His role at Falmouth University is performed across a range of academic positions: Point of Contact for Impact Case Studies within the Research Excellence Framework (Research & Knowledge Exchange), Research Associate (Centre for Blended Realities) and Research Affiliate (Centre for Future Pedagogies). These engagements form a triadic structure of academic labour spanning evaluation regimes, perceptual exploration and educational futurity-making.
His research engages hauntology (Derrida), monster culture (Cohen) and mnemohistory (Assmann) to explore the phantasmagoric conditions of marginalised experience. His work is oriented around attending to what is spectral, fractured, excessive or otherwise rendered unintelligible within dominant epistemologies.
Externally Lance is Research Affiliate of the Early Career Research Network at the University of Exeter and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
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Qualifications
Qualifications
| Year | Qualification | Awarding body |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | PhD Education | University of Cambridge |
| 2020 | MA Drama Education and English Language Teaching | University of Warwick |
| 2018 | BA (Hons) English with a Focus on Secondary Education, QTS-equivalent | National Changhua University of Education |
Research Interests
Research interests and expertise
My research practice centres on creative and methodologically experimental approaches to knowledge production. My previous research includes a PhD on creative workshops with young women in out-of-home placements and a distinction-awarded MA exploring online autobiographical monologues for discussions of gender and sexuality.
Since relocating to Cornwall, I have been working to connect academic practice more closely with regional and community contexts: collaborating with House of Damnation CIC, a rural queer drag company using performance, mentorship and workshops to address structural inequalities affecting LGBTQ+ communities.
Looking ahead, I am developing a body of work that brings together research, impact and institutional critique, currently oriented towards book-based forms of knowledge production:
- Biases in Research Methods: How to Collaborate with the Ghosts and Monsters of Research? (Routledge)
- Troubles hidden methodological assumptions through hauntological and monster-theoretical lenses - Navigating Knowledge Exchange and Research Assessment as Creative Practitioners: Making Impact, Making Art (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Explores how creative practitioners navigate and produce impact within higher education and cultural sectors - THE SHOW MUST GO ON (EVEN AFTER WE’RE GONE!): drag, memory and the business of dying (Common Ground Research Networks)
- Reads drag performance as a site of memory, mortality and cultural transmission
My overall academic direction is towards a post-disciplinary scholarly practice that challenges dominant research narratives and explores alternative ways of knowing/remembering/representing marginalised experience. I perform a dual-function role as scholar and impact practitioner, operating at the interface of research, institutional frameworks and public engagement.
My mentoring approach supports research that integrates position(ality), creativity and methodological clarity and encourages projects that test the limits of conventional modes of scholarship while maintaining conceptual coherence.
I welcome dialogue and collaboration with students and colleagues interested in co-creative, interdisciplinary and practice-led research across these areas.
Professional Engagement
Engagement with professional associations and societies
Along with my editor role at the Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, I am involved as a member and contributor to the Creative Research Methods Symposium (University of Brighton), Qualitative Methods Hub (University of Oxford) and the Homerton Educational Technology Society (University of Cambridge).
I also curate and oversee The Chiaroscuro, a thought space for engaging with hauntology and its related ideas.