Culture, Values and Practices
Our research explores how specific cultural forms and values are made and lived in practice.
Approaching culture critically as a lived process that is always interwoven with politics, economy, and society, our research spans different cultural worlds and scales, and addresses how people engage in difference and shape social life through cultural practices.
Our expertise encompasses a range of topics, including media, digital, and popular cultures, social and cultural theory, cultural institutions and industries, knowledge production, religion and spirituality, race and ethnicity, social class, post/decoloniality, and belonging and place.
We challenge and assess ongoing social and cultural changes, critically analysing transformations of citizenship and media, social inequalities and trends. Our research evaluates cultural participation, engagement and disengagement from local to international scales.
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- Dr Miranda Armstrong
Family & women's relationships, Intersectional inequalities, The life course - Victor Avila Torres
Digital media, culture, music consumption - Dr Eliran Bar-El
Social Theory, Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Intellectual Interventions - Dr Kath Bassett
Ethnographic, Qualitative & Digital Methods, ANT, Foucauldian & Posthuman feminist theories, Digital technologies, Locative media platforms & algorhythmic Governmentality, Cities, Cultural-economic development & tourism, Emotions, affect & the psy disciplines, Masculinities & transgender issues/politics - Professor David Beer
Popular culture, new media cultures, cultural theory, digital methods - Dr Christina Buse
Embodiment, Ageing, Dementia, Material culture & technology - Dr Emma Casey
Social & cultural history of consumption, Gambling, Sociological studies of domestic life & experiences. - Dr Sangeeta Chattoo
Global health, Genetic disorders, Reproductive technologies, Race, ethnicity and citizenship, Ethnographic and biographical methods. - Dr James Cummings
Gender, sexuality & identity. - Dr Peter Gardner Contentious politics (protest, revolt, revolution, civil war), postconflict societies, ethnic and racial studies, symbolic objects, environmental movements.
- Dr Patricia Hamilton
Black feminist theory, Parenting culture studies & reproduction, Intersectional politics of early parenting, Black feminist research methodologies, Assisted reproductive technologies & their intersection with race & parenting. - Dr Christine Jackson-Taylor
Gender & sexuality, Faith & religion, Narrative research, Identity & self. - Dr Joanna Malone
Religion & non-religion, Ageing & the life-course, Inter-generational research, End of life, Citizenship & belonging. - Dr Daryl Martin Architectural theory, cultural geography, social and cultural theory, urban sociology.
- Dr Haley Elizabeth McAvay Citizenship, national identity, social/political attitudes.
- Dr Gareth Millington Urban sociology, race and racism and urban culture.
- Dr Emily Nicholls
Gender & identity, Femininities, Consumption & the night time economy, Alcohol & sobriety.
- Dr Raphaël Nowak
Culture, Music consumption, Digital technologies, Materiality, Popular culture heritage
- Dr Tom O'Brien Environmental sociology, democratisation, social movements and political leadership.
- Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce Celebrity, media, death, crime.
- Dr Amanda Rees
Social theory, Sociology of science, Popular understanding of science, History of primatology. - Dr Ayshka Sene
The history & memory of the Second World War in France & Britain, National identity & belonging in France, Oral history theory & practice. - Dr Katy Sian De/Postcolonialism, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Identity and Diaspora.
- Dr Anna Strhan Sociology of religion, non-religion, morality ethics and values, evangelicalism, religion and parenting.
Gaming, rituals interaction with popular culture, religion, death and the undead.
- Adam Dinsmore
- Yumeng Dou
- Jade Gilbourne
- Dylan Goodacre-Hall
Online communities, death and dying, virtual spaces, digital archiving.
Community and belonging, feminist urban research, marginalisation.
Social media politics, democracy, populism culture.
Cultural Criminology, trangression studies, Queer Carnivalesque' / 'Folk' culture, Groteskology.
Political Sociology, social movements, climate crisis, future studies.
Urban sociology, spaces of female street-based sex work.
Scientific knowledge production, Knowledge dissemination, Transformation of academic work.
School architecture, Educational spaces, Educational pedagogy.
- Cath Stinton
