Dr Nicola Carroll
Lecturer

Profile

Biography

PhD Sociology, University of Huddersfield

MA Urban Regeneration and Development, Manchester University

BA (Hons) Political Studies, University of Stirling

Career

I began my career as a journalist specialising in public services and social issues and then spent ten years delivering editorial and policy research projects for non-profit organisations before starting my PhD. My doctoral research explored experiences of single parents in two locations in the North of England with contrasting socio-economic profiles in the context of welfare reform, fiscal austerity and media stigmatisation.

After completing my thesis, I combined part-time teaching as Associate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield (on modules spanning social theory, research methods, an Introduction to Sociology and Culture, Sociology of Health, Body and Society and Critical Social Policy) with furthering my fieldwork expertise in research roles. My postdoctoral research experience has included projects investigating; mental health support in the community (University of Huddersfield); collaboration between local government policymakers and academics (University of Leeds); and experiences of families and communities during Covid-19 (University College London).

I joined the Sociology Department at York in 2022 and my role involves co-ordination of the departmental Learning and Teaching Forum, along with postgraduate supervision and teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate modules: Divisions and Inequalities, Sociology of Health and Illness, Qualitative Research Methods, Cultivating a Sociological Imagination and Themes and Issues in Contemporary Sociology.

My research interests include families and personal lives, intersections of class and gender inequalities, citizenship and welfare, community development, comparative qualitative methods and collaborative approaches to research-policy interaction.