Sociology Staff Research Interests at Lancaster University

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Rebecca Coleman

My research interests are in: images and visual/sensory culture; bodies and materiality; affect; temporality and the future; inventive methodologies; feminist, cultural and social theory. In Lent term 2013 I was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/gender_cultural_studies/). During this time I gave papers at the University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Wollongong.

Anne Cronin

My research is focused on the areas of: advertising, branding and promotional culture; consumer society; cities and urban culture; friendship and social ties; visual culture; gender and culture, cultural economy; commercial cultures and neo-capitalism. I welcome applications from potential PhD students in any of the above areas.

Adam Fish

As a social anthropologist of digital culture, I investigate the interface of economic and political power, cultural discourses and practices, and networked communication technologies. These interests coalesce into critical and ethnographic investigations into internet and television convergence, media policy, and network activism. I am presently writing a book about Current TV--the transnational television network at the forefront of internet convergence, media "democratization," and social media integration. I am also conducting fieldwork with communities such as Anonymous YouTube video producers and the UK Pirate Party who are engaged in network activism for "internet freedom." I am happy to collaborate with students with any of the following research interests: cultural anthropology, digital culture, internet, television, journalism, social media, convergence, indigenous media, media policy, social justice movements, democracy, start-up culture, culture industries, critical theory, neoliberalism, ethnographic methods, the public sphere, and video and television production.

Elizabeth Shove

My recent research has been about how social practices change and about the implications of these dynamics for everyday life, energy demand and climate change. Previous work has explored aspects of consumption, design and material culture and changing conventions of comfort, cleanliness and convenience. I am interested in extending the range of social theory that is used in public policy. See my personal web page for links to publications and projects.

Vicky Singleton

Current research programme: Care in and for Policy As part of this programme I am currently writing a book on Unhealthy Policy: The Loss of Care in Public Health addressing the following questions: How do the practices of public health policy produce particular subjects and objects?How does public health policy, in intimate social-material practices, distribute rights and resources?How might policy be enacted in ways that are care-full? The research programme aims to develop a network of researchers to explore concerns about policy as failing, marginalising ?good' practices and causing harm. 'Policy' can been seen as a historically, culturally and politically specific form of care. Yet, policies designed to protect, to nurture and to care for inadvertently harbour and promote relations of harm. Policies that ?work' within particular defined contexts can be seen to be dysfunctional within other contexts. Recent research on care as socio-technical and relational may prove productive in thinking through diverse policy-related domains. This research explores how policy could attend to those things often neglected, harmed or made invisible and how to sensitize policy to inevitable incommensurate knowledges and excesses.

Jude Towers

My two primary areas of research interest are violence against women and the measurement of social problems, in particular the measurement of violence against women through large-scale social survey methodologies.

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Research Menu Introduction Staff Interests Publications Projects Research Groups	Summary of Staff Research Interests Rebecca Coleman My research interests are in: images and visual/sensory culture; bodies and materiality; affect; temporality and the future; inventive methodologies; feminist, cultural and social theory. In Lent term 2013 I was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/gender_cultural_studies/). During this time I gave papers at the University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Wollongong. Anne Cronin My research is focused on the areas of: advertising, branding and promotional culture; consumer society; cities and urban culture; friendship and social ties; visual culture; gender and culture, cultural economy; commercial cultures and neo-capitalism. I welcome applications from potential PhD students in any of the above areas. Adam Fish As a social anthropologist of digital culture, I investigate the interface of economic and political power, cultural discourses and practices, and networked communication technologies. These interests coalesce into critical and ethnographic investigations into internet and television convergence, media policy, and network activism. I am presently writing a book about Current TV--the transnational television network at the forefront of internet convergence, media "democratization," and social media integration. I am also conducting fieldwork with communities such as Anonymous YouTube video producers and the UK Pirate Party who are engaged in network activism for "internet freedom." I am happy to collaborate with students with any of the following research interests: cultural anthropology, digital culture, internet, television, journalism, social media, convergence, indigenous media, media policy, social justice movements, democracy, start-up culture, culture industries, critical theory, neoliberalism, ethnographic methods, the public sphere, and video and television production. Elizabeth Shove My recent research has been about how social practices change and about the implications of these dynamics for everyday life, energy demand and climate change. Previous work has explored aspects of consumption, design and material culture and changing conventions of comfort, cleanliness and convenience. I am interested in extending the range of social theory that is used in public policy. See my personal web page for links to publications and projects. Vicky Singleton Current research programme: Care in and for Policy As part of this programme I am currently writing a book on Unhealthy Policy: The Loss of Care in Public Health addressing the following questions: How do the practices of public health policy produce particular subjects and objects?How does public health policy, in intimate social-material practices, distribute rights and resources?How might policy be enacted in ways that are care-full? The research programme aims to develop a network of researchers to explore concerns about policy as failing, marginalising ?good' practices and causing harm. 'Policy' can been seen as a historically, culturally and politically specific form of care. Yet, policies designed to protect, to nurture and to care for inadvertently harbour and promote relations of harm. Policies that ?work' within particular defined contexts can be seen to be dysfunctional within other contexts. Recent research on care as socio-technical and relational may prove productive in thinking through diverse policy-related domains. This research explores how policy could attend to those things often neglected, harmed or made invisible and how to sensitize policy to inevitable incommensurate knowledges and excesses. Jude Towers My two primary areas of research interest are violence against women and the measurement of social problems, in particular the measurement of violence against women through large-scale social survey methodologies.	Centres of excellence Centre for Science Studies CSS Centre for Environmental Change CSEC Centre for Mobilities Research CeMoRe Centre for Gender and Women's Studies GWS ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics CESAGEN
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