{"id":2137,"date":"2025-12-08T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:52:46","slug":"welcoming-our-new-post-doctoral-researcher-dr-thea-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/welcoming-our-new-post-doctoral-researcher-dr-thea-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Our New Post-Doctoral Researcher: Dr Thea Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We are delighted to announce that <strong>Dr Thea Lawrence<\/strong> has joined the GROUPMINDS research team as our newest post-doctoral researcher.<br \/>\nA cultural historian and specialist in Latin literature, Thea brings exceptional expertise in the history of the senses, gender, and the ancient body, with a research profile that bridges literary, medical, social, and material-cultural approaches to the Roman world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thea completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham with a groundbreaking thesis on odour, perfume, and the female body in Ancient Rome. Her work rethinks Roman perceptions of femininity and embodiment through a multisensory lens, illuminating ancient structures of patriarchy and their enduring impact. She has taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Lincoln, contributed extensively to public engagement, and is currently preparing her monograph for publication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At GROUPMINDS, Thea will lead the project <strong>\u201cFemale Group Minds and Socio-Political Agency in Roman Narrative,\u201d<\/strong> examining how Latin authors conceptualised women as collective cognitive agents capable of shaping public life, politics, emotion, and social change. Her research will explore influential female collectives\u2014from the Sabine Women and the protestors against the Lex Oppia in Livy to broader representations of women in historiography, satire, and cultural discourse\u2014to shed new light on ancient models of shared thought and collective identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We warmly welcome Thea to the team and look forward to the insights her work will contribute to our understanding of ancient group cognition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Learn more about Thea\u2019s background, publications, and research project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/thea-lawrence\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Dr Thea Lawrence has joined the GROUPMINDS research team as our newest post-doctoral researcher. A cultural historian and specialist in<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"modified_by":"kmikel02","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 11:02:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/groupminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}