Associate dean, York St John University
Course leader for Sociology at York St John, as well as lecturing on death and mortality, social theory and spatial sociology. Research background in popular culture, death, spatial sociology and social theory. Research interests include the securitisation of migration, the privatisation of UK asylum housing and representations of structural harm within popular interactive media. I have previously published on topics ranging from the 2011 UK riots to the implications of expanded social control markets following the 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum.
Video game violence is not the problem – the real world that inspires it is
Nov 19, 2019 04:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Do violent video games create violent gamers? Its a topic of discussion that continues to rear its head despite there being no solid evidence linking the two. It was once again brought back to the fore in August by the US...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India