Staff Profile

Luke is a tutor for the MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) and predominantly teaches at postgraduate level. He is the module coordinator for a therapeutic skills module in the MSc CAMH programme, helping students put theory into practice. He has also taught both undergraduate and postgraduate research methods. Luke won the university’s award for ‘Advancing Equality and Diversity’ in 2020.

Luke’s main research centres around gender, sexuality, and mental health. This follows from his MSc and PhD research, which focused on non-binary youth and their gender identities. He has worked on and led several research projects, focusing on ‘safe spaces’ in learning and teaching in higher education, and trans and non-binary people’s experiences of their sexualities. Luke has published multiple articles from the projects and in 2024 won the Early Career Researcher award at the university.

Luke is a qualitative researcher, with experience in feminist relational discourse analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis, and thematic analysis. He is passionate about participatory and creative forms of research that focus on identities – particularly genders and sexualities.

For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view Luke Ward’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.