Rose Rickford
Biography
- PhD Sociology (in progress), University of York
- MA Social Research (Distinction), 2019, University of York
- BA Sociology (First class with distinction), 2007, University of York
Rose is currently working on her PhD research into work of grassroots community organisations during the pandemic. She is considering whether grassroots community organisations were effective in helping to meet human need during the first lockdown in England, concluding that they were. From here, she is considering the ontology of organisations, and what are the conditions of possibility to enable an organisation to support human flourishing.
More broadly, Rose is a radical materialist feminist, and a poststructuralist. She is interested in exploring how domination works in society, and how societies might work differently to enable justice. This brings her to an interest in the role of care within society, and particularly how people can work together reciprocally to meet one another’s’ needs.
Rose is also interested in research methodology, and particularly in questions of ontology and its relationship to social research. Just as different human senses enable us to learn different things about the world, depending on the ontological properties of the things, different research methods can help us answer different types of question depending on the ontological properties of the phenomena under investigation.
Rose is currently an editor for The Radical Notion, an internationally distributed feminist magazine. She has also been an Associate Editor for Contention: A multi-disciplinary journal of social protest.