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Professor Sue Wise

Sue Wise

Professor of Social Justice

Department: Applied Social Science

Degree: (BA Hons, Manchester Poly; MA Econ, CQSW, PhD, Manchester)

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Disability Research CeDR, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Difference and diversity, End of Life Care

Current Teaching

Social Divisions & Social Diversity - BA & MA

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!

Some recent (and not so recent) publications:

(2006) 'Having It All: feminist fractured foundationalism', in (eds) K. Davis, M. Evans & J, Lorber, Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies , London and NY, Sage (with L. Stanley)

(2004) "Beyond Marriage: 'The less said about love and life-long continuance together the better'", Feminism & Psychology, Vol 14, No 2, 2004: 332-43. (with L. Stanley)

(2003) "Looking Back and Looking Forward: Some recent feminist sociology reviewed", Sociological Research Online, Vol 8, No 3, l (with L Stanley)

(2000) '"New Right" or "Backlash"? Section 28, Moral Panic and "Promoting Homosexuality"', Sociological Research Online , Vol 5, No 1,

(2000) "But the empress has no clothes: some awkward questions about the 'missing revolution' in feminist theory",Feminist Theory , Vol 1, 3: 261-288 (with L Stanley)

(1993) Breaking Out Again: feminist ontology & epistemology , Routledge, London (with L Stanley)

(1987) Georgie Porgie: sexual harassment in everyday life , Pandora Press, London (with L Stanley)

Potential Doctoral Proposals

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 keen to hear from prospective PhD students who are working in the areas that I am currently actively engaged with: equality and social justice; feminist theory; LGBT issues in social policy and social work; new social movements; death & dying.

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.

Associated Keywords: Adolescent, Ageing, Applied Social Science, Assisted dying, Bereavement, Citizenship and secularism, Condolence, Cyberspace, Death, Digital technologies, Dying, End of life, Epistemology, Equality, Equal opportunities, e-research, Ethnicity, Euthanasia, Exclusion and disadvantage, Feminism, Feminist theory, Gender, Hate crime, Homophobia, Human rights, ICT, Information society, Internet, Intersectionality, Islamophobia, Lesbian and gay issues in social policy, LGBT, Masculinities, Memorialisation, Memorials, Minority ethnic communities, Modern Islam, Multiculturalism, New media, New social media, New social movements, Philosophy of social science, Photography, Prejudice, Queer, Race and racism, Research ethics, Sexualities, Social inequalities, Social justice, Social movements, Transgender