Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Anglia Ruskin University
My research interests are in the sociology of class and culture, identity and popular culture as well as social media and celebrity. While diverse these areas of research are unified by a common sociological theme: how are social and cultural identities made and re-made in old and new forms?
The meritocracy is a smokescreen for inherited privilege
Jan 10, 2017 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life Politics
The politics of naming who is called what by whom can be used as a weapon, something we saw a great deal of in 2016 against a backdrop of the rise of populism generally. Sometimes it felt absurd: billionaires taking back...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well