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Emily Nicholls
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Chair of Board of Studies

Biography

  • PhD Sociology, Newcastle University
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Local Government Management, University of Warwick
  • MA Gender Research, Newcastle University
  • BA (Hons) Politics and Philosophy, University of Leeds

After graduating with a degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Leeds and  Masters in Gender Research from Newcastle University, I completed my PhD in Sociology at Newcastle University in 2015, exploring femininities and gender identity on a ‘girls’ night out’ in North-East England. I was also employed as a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield towards the end of my PhD, working on a project on footwear and identity in collaboration with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. Later in 2015 I was appointed as a Lecturer – and later Senior Lecturer – in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, where I was also the Sociology Course Leader and School lead for admissions, recruitment and outreach. I joined the University of York as a Lecturer in Sociology in April 2021. I am currently a Senior Lecturer and the Deputy Chair of Board of Studies. I am also the lead for the Gender, Sexuality and Inequalities research cluster here at York.

My research interests include gender and identity (specifically femininities); the sociology of consumption (specifically relating to alcohol, sobriety and veganism) and the Night Time Economy. My recent research includes work on women’s experiences of early sobriety, drinking in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic and a project funded by the Institute of Alcohol Studies on the marketing and consumption of alcohol-free drinks. My first monograph on the ‘girls’ night out’ was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. More recently, my work on non-consumption has explored the consumption of plant-based meat substitutes. 

I am co-director of the international and interdisciplinary Drinking Studies Network and a member of the British Sociological Association alcohol study group and consumption study group.

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Dr Emily Nicholls
Senior Lecturer in Sociology Deputy Chair of Board of Studies
Department of Sociology LMB/234
University of York
YO10 5GD