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Dr Emma Casey
Reader in Sociology

Biography

I grew up in the north east of England during a time of rapid industrial decline, where burgeoning social inequalities sat alongside the rapid emergence of new forms of popular culture and consumer practices. Sociology has long provided me with the opportunity to make sense of these social and cultural transformations.

Between 1995 and 1998 I came to the University of York to study Sociology as an undergraduate. I then moved to London in the late 1990s and worked in a bookshop while I searched for postgraduate funding. I completed my PhD at London Metropolitan University in 2004. Since then, I have developed research which broadly examines the various ways in which structural inequalities of class, race and gender are mapped onto everyday cultural and consumer practices.

Underpinning my research and teaching, is a commitment to countering mainstream sociological scholarship which has often silenced the voices of marginalised people. To this end, my research attempts to pull to the surface hitherto overlooked cultural processes and practices. My research is particularly inspired by feminist theoretical approaches and ways of seeing the world.

I joined the Department of Sociology in 2022 as Senior Lecturer in Sociology.

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Dr Emma Casey
Reader
Deputy Head of Department Department of Sociology LMB/227
University of York
YO10 5GD