Power, Inequalities and Citizenship
Power, Inequalities and Citizenship
Themes
Research on power, inequalities and citizenship is a crucial component of our work in Sociology at Newcastle.
We are interested in understanding how social inequalities emerge, manifest themselves in both organisations and social structures and individual's life experiences. Our research is wide ranging, looking at both long term macro-sociological trends, and micro-level analyses of inequalities of social class, and other dimensions of inequality and their practical manifestations in education, employment, and other forms of social exclusion. We have particular research strengths around young people, employment, forensic scientific and medical evidence, masculinity, 'welfare', poverty, place, austerity and power and politics. In pursuit of developing a better understanding of the highly complex and intersectional nature of social inequalities we also highlight the relevance of comparative perspectives, as different contexts and the study of different places reveal different configurations of inequality and power.
Research on power, inequalities and citizenship is a crucial component of our work at Newcastle. Informed and contributing to advances in contemporary social theory, our research is wide ranging, looking at both long term macro-sociological trends, and micro-level analyses of inequalities of social class, ethnicity, sexualities, and health, and their practical manifestations in education, employment, and other forms of social exclusion.
Our work critically engages with different conceptions of citizenship, democracy, and power, and their interrelation.
The continued relevance of power and inequalities for contemporary citizenship is mapped across a portfolio of research which explores how models and practices of citizenship, and the politics of recognition are deployed and mobilised by a variety of groups with, through or against government.
In pursuit of developing a better understanding of the highly complex and intersectional nature of social inequalities we also highlight the relevance of comparative perspectives, as different contexts reveal different configurations of inequality and power.
The co-ordinator for this cluster is Tracy Shildrick
Professor Elaine Campbell
Professor of Criminology
Email: elaine.campbell@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5030
Dr Mark Casey
Lecturer in Sociology
Email: m.e.casey@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7921
Emerita Professor Erica Haimes
Emeritus Professor
Professor Robert Hollands
Professor of Sociology
Email: robert.hollands@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7501
Dr Pauline McCormack
Senior Lecturer
Email: pauline.mccormack@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3261
Professor Janice McLaughlin
Professor of Sociology
Email: janice.mclaughlin@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7511
Emeritus Professor William Outhwaite
Emeritus Professor
Email: william.outhwaite@ncl.ac.uk
Dr Silvia Pasquetti
Lecturer in Sociology
Email: silvia.pasquetti@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5817
Professor Geoff Payne
Associate Researcher
Professor Peter Phillimore
Visiting Professor of Social Anthropology
Email: peter.phillimore@ncl.ac.uk
Dr Adél Pásztor
Lecturer in Sociology
Email: adel.pasztor@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 5576
Professor Diane Richardson
Professor of Sociology & Social Policy
Email: diane.richardson@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7643
Professor Tracy Shildrick
Professor of Inequalities
Email: tracy.shildrick@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 0191 2085817
Dr Sarah Winkler-Reid
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Email: sarah.winkler-reid@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 8697
Dr Simon Woods
Reader in Bioethics. PEALS Executive Director
Email: simon.woods@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3254
| Name | Topic |
|---|---|
| Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi | Conceptions of democracy in secular and religious feminism in contemporary Iran. An empirical exploration |
| Ursula Balderson | Environmental injustice and social conflict: social movements against mining pollution and over-extraction of water sources in the Andes |
| James Cummings | A Study of Emergent Non-Normative Sexual Identities in Hainan Province, China |
| Kathy Davies | Understanding Women’s Holiday Relationships (UWHR) |
| Matthew Hanchard | Anchoring securities and mobilities: towards a digital sociology of maps |
| Diana Kopbayeva | Building the Kazakh nation: an exploration of the discourse of nation building in Kazakhstan |
| Hannah Lyons | Assembling the nation: spatialising young, religious American's affective experiences of the nation, fear and danger in the everyday |
| William McGovern | An exploration of social capital and self-help in non-traditional 12 steps setting |
| Lauren Powell | NE1 Using This Space? A Study of Inchoate Open Spaces in an Urban Setting |
| Sunil Rodger | Community-led Evidence Work: The Role of Technology in Knowledge and Campaigning |
| Clare Vaughan | Violence and Fear in Homeless Careers: A Biographical Investigation of Young Women at Risk of Homelessness |