Dr Paul Green

Teaching Fellow in Genetics Education

Dr Green is a social anthropologist ‘by trade’ and provides social science input and expertise to GENIE’s evolving project portfolio. He plays a lead role in developing two pedagogic projects, the Student Experience Project and Reward and Recognition for Teaching and Learning in the HE Sector. He also contributes to the Pedagogical Research on Taught Postgraduate Programme project and has helped develop an evaluation programme for a pilot outreach scheme involving GENIE, the non-profit making organisation, Primary Partnerships and Primary school children.

Dr Green provides teaching input to first and second-year undergraduate modules in the School of Biological Sciences. He will also incorporate social anthropology into the curriculum at the University of Leicester by contributing to the development and teaching of a cross-disciplinary module ‘Sustainable Futures’, available on a non-credited but approved basis by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science. On a related note, he is a member of the Education for Sustainable Development or ESD Forum, which aims to support ESD and offer help, support and collaboration to existing and new ESD projects throughout the University and beyond.

Dr Green was awarded a PhD in social anthropology in 2007 from the University of Hull, having conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Brazilian migrants of mostly Japanese descent living in Japan. This little known diasporic connection between Brazil and Japan is in fact the subject of a great deal of academic research, a novel by the Karen Tei Yamashita and two films, Gaijin (1980) and Gaijin II (2003), by the Japanese Brazilian director Tizuka Yamasaki. His research interests centre on issues and theorisings of personhood, kinship, social relatedness, nationalism, generational change and urban field methodology. His thesis, more specifically, builds on and extends the work of Australian anthropologist Bruce Kapferer and his understanding of the relationship between personhood, ontology and national ideology.  

Dr Green has a BA (Special Hons) in Southeast Asian Studies and Language, also from the University of Hull. During his ‘year out’ he was fortunate to study at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Universitas Sumatera Utara in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Dr Green's current GENIE projects include:

GENIE Student Network

Student Experience Project   
Reward and Recognition for Teaching and Learning in the HE Sector

Pedagogical Research on Taught Postgraduate Programme

HERO

Journal articles

P. Green (forthcoming, 2010) ‘The Enemy Within? Explorations of Personhood, Friendship and Difference Amongst Brazilian Nationals Living in Japan,’ The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

P. Green (forthcoming, 2010) ‘Generation, Family and Migration: Young Brazilian Factory Workers in Japan,’ Ethnography.

P. Green, A. Cashmore, J. Scott and G. Narayanan (forthcoming, November 2009) ‘Making Sense of First-Year Student Life: Transitions as Ethnographic Process,’ in B. Leibowitz, A. Van der Merwe and S. Van Schalkwyk (eds), Focus on First-Year Success: Perspectives Emerging from South Africa and Beyond, SunMedia.

P. Green (2008) ‘Family and Nation: Brazilian National Ideology as Contested Transnational Practice in Japan,’ Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 8(4): 418-435.

Contact Dr Paul Green:

Email: pdg9@le.ac.uk

Tel: 0116 223 1588