Keywords
Assisted dying, Bereavement, Cyberspace, Death, Digital technologies, Dying, Equality, e-research, Feminism, Internet, LGBT, Memorialisation, New social media, New social movements, Photography, Social justice
Research Areas
Social Science
PhD Supervision Interests
I have supervised to completion a number of PhD students on various topics, including: child protection in Australia; adoption and fostering by lesbian and gay people; accounts of child sexual abuse; lesbian well-being; listening to looked after children..
I am also a very experienced PhD examiner, having examined, either internally or externally, around 20 theses in the fields of: feminist & women's studies, applied sociology; social work, and; research methodology.
Research Interests
My route into higher education was a circuitous one. I left school at 16 with 2 'O' levels and did various jobs until I realised that my Dad had been right all along and I wasn't going to be able to get the kind of job I wanted unless I had more qualifications! College and night school lead on to an excellent social science degree at (then) Manchester Polytechnic as a mature student, during which I discovered that learning was exciting and that I was quite good at it. Revelation! Yes, higher education did change my life and I now enjoy watching our students make the same life-changing transitions.
My academic life has been intertwined with my work as a political activist over many years. In the 1970s and 1980s I was deeply involved in the Women's Movement and the Lesbian and Gay Movement, mainly in Manchester, UK. I am passionately committed to social justice for all marginalised and oppressed groups, and my teaching and writing share this as their main concern.
Since I arrived here in 1989, I have taught on all of the degree schemes in the department, but currently my teaching is focussed on the Social Work programmes. I teach about 'Social Divisions and Social Diversity' to both BA & MA students. I am a qualified social worker and have experience in the statutory sector in both residential and field work, mainly working with children and families. In the voluntary sector, in the 1970s I was an early member & organiser of 'FRIEND', a counselling service for LGBT people.
Oh, yes. And as you can see, Elvis lives - but he's shrunk a bit!
Current Teaching
2011
The Domestication of Death: the sequestration thesis and domestic figuration
Stanley, L. & Wise, S. 12/2011 In: Sociology. 45, 6, p. 947-962, 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2010
The ESRC's 2010 Framework for Research Ethics: fit for research purpose?
Stanley, L. & Wise, S. 30/11/2010 In: Sociological Research Online. 15, 4, p. n/a
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2008
Feminist methodology matters!
Wise, S. & Stanley, L. 2008 Introducing Gender and Women's Studies. Richardson, D. & Robinson, V. (eds.). 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 221-243 23 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2006
Having it all: feminist fractured foundationalism.
Wise, S. & Stanley, L. 2006 Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies. London: Sage
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Putting it into practice: using feminist fractured foundationalism in researching children in the concentration camps of the South African War.
Wise, S. H. & Stanley, L. 31/03/2006
Research output: Other contribution
2004
Beyond marriage: The less said about love and life-long continuance together the better.
Wise, S. H. & Stanley, L. 1/05/2004 In: Feminism & Psychology. 14, 2, p. 332-343, 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2003
Looking back and looking forward: some recent feminist sociology reviewed.
Wise, S. H. & Stanley, L. 31/08/2003
Research output: Other contribution
2000
But the empress has no clothes: some awkward questions about the missing the 'missing revolution' in feminist theory.
Stanley, E. & Wise, S. H. 12/2000 In: Feminist Theory. 1, 3, p. 261-288, 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Lesbian and gay issues in social work.
Wise, S. H. & Hicks, S. 2000 The Blackwell encyclopaedia of social work. Davies, M. (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell, p. 193-195 3 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
'New right' or 'backlash'? Section 28, 'moral panic' and 'promoting homosexuality'.
Wise, S. H. 31/05/2000 In: Sociological Research Online. 5, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Homophobia.
Wise, S. H. 2000 The Blackwell encyclopaedia of social work. Davies, M. (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell, p. 158
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Heterosexism.
Wise, S. H. 2000 The Blackwell encyclopaedia of social work. Davies, M. (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell, p. 154
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
1993
Breaking Out Again: feminist ontology & epistemology
Stanley, L. & Wise, S. 1993 2nd ed. ed. London: Routledge. 253 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
1987
Georgie Porgie: sexual harassment in everyday life
Wise, S. & Stanley, L. 1987 London: Pandora Press. 235 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Domestication of Death
01/10/2010 →
Summary: Prof Sue Wise, Applied Social Science, Lancaster University Prof Liz Stanley, Sociology, University of Edinburgh. Do most deaths now take place in hospitals and nursing homes? What impact doe ... Read more»
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