My research and teaching draws across the disciplines of sociology, social policy, cultural studies, gender and women's studies and critical media studies. I am interested in questions of cultural politics, representation, inequalities and the ways in which popular consensus is produced, contested and circulated. My research investigates these broad questions in connection with a number of topics, including parenting culture and policy, welfare imaginaries, and the history, and resurgence, of eugenics.
I welcome applications for PhD supervision and I am happy to discuss proposals in any of the following areas:
The cultural politics of austerity/poverty - welfare policy, activism and change - representing and imagining the welfare state - the politics and economics of television - gender, feminist activism and theory - parenting culture media and policy - the history, present and future of eugenics - reproductive justice
You should be motivated, curious and have a strong academic record.
I teach on a number of modules in the Dept. I convene the following modules:
MCS232: Television, Culture and Society (Part II undergraduate)
SOCL350 Welfare States: Histories and Futures (co-convenor, with Imogen Tyler) (Part II undergraduate)
MCS304: Food Cultures (Part II undergraduate **AVAILABLE 2021/22**)
I also teach on the following modules:
MCS101 Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies (Part 1 undergraduate)
GWS101 Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (Part I undergraduate)
SOC360 Research Dissertation (Part II undergraduate)
GWS403 Feminist Media and Cultural Studies (Postgraduate Taught/Masters)
MCS940 Critical Debates in Media and Cultural Studies (Postgraduate Taught/Masters)