Background

Introduction

My main research interests are in the areas of:

(i) Race, Ethnicity and Migration

(ii) Young People, Place and Belonging

(iii) Masculinities, Gender and Social Transformations 

Background

Chair in Social and Cultural Geography

Roles and Responsibilities

External roles include: EQA assessor for REF 2021; External Examiner for BA Geography, University of Leicester 2014-17; External Examiner for Sociology (UG and PGT), Birmingham University, 2015-2018; Open University Periodic Quality Assessment Evaluator (2019).

Internal roles include: University Promotions Committee (2017- onwards); Head of Geography/DHoS  (2014-18); Geographies of Social Change cluster leader (2017-18).

Qualifications

PhD Human Geography - Ivory Lives: Race, Ethnicity and the Practice of Whiteness amongst Young People (passed with no corrections) 
M.Soc. Sci. Cultural Studies (Distinction)
BA Hons Literature and History

Previous Positions 

Research Fellow (School of Education, Newcastle University); Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies (Liverpool John Moores University); ESRC postgraduate researcher (University of Birmingham)

Editorial Board Membership

Sociology

Leisure Studies

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

 

Research

Research Interests

My research interests are in the fields of race, ethnicity, migration and asylum; youth and cultural studies; masculinities and social change; whiteness, nationalism and new theories of social class.

Funded Projects

Finlay, R. and Nayak, A. Young People in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods (Social Justice Award, awarded December 2018)

Collier, R, Nayak, Al. and Rankin, J. (Co-I) Masculinities and Management in Higher Education (EDI Award, awarded January, 2019).

Nayak, A. (PI) Young People, Diversity and Belonging in the Age of  Brexit (Research Excellence Award, 2017- 19)

Nayak, A. (PI) Boys to Men: Understanding What it Means to be a Man - Creating New Templates for Masculinities (ESRC Co-production, 2018-19)

Postgraduate Supervision

Current:

1. Daniel Barwick (ESRC 3.5) The Black Lives Matter Movement: Transnational Activism and Urban Neoliberal  

2. Jonathan Finn (ESRC 1 3) Masculinities, Memory, Nostalgia and Post-industrial Shipbuilding Area

3. Jack Crangle (Northern Bridge 3 with Queens Belfast) Oral Histories of Migrants in Belfast

4. Lydia Wysocki (ESRC 3) Race and Nationhood in the British Comic Scene

5. Graham Gaunt - Masculinities, Youth Transitions and Contemporary Apprenticeships (ESRC 3 CASE with North East Training Association; with Robert Hollands)

 

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

GEO3099: Dissertation (Module leader)
GEO3065: Race, Place and Nation (Module leader)
GEO2031: Globalisation, Culture and Development (Module leader)
GEO2100: Contested Geographies of New York City
GEO2044: Advanced Study Skills
GEO2096: Geographical Research Methods
GEO1011: Geographical Imaginations

Postgraduate Teaching

I currently mentor 8 PhD students in various areas of social and cultural geography. I am happy to supervise PhD students in my specialist areas of race, racisms and ethnicities; youth and cultural studies; transformations to social class; masculinities, gender and labour. At postgraduate level I teach:
HASS804 Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences
GEO 8015 Planning Geographical Research (module leader)
GEO 8016 Philosophies in Human Geography
GEO 8017 Human Geography: Concepts in Action (module leader)
GEO 889 Research Dissertation (module leader)

Publications

• Burrell K, Hopkins P, Isakjee A, Lorne C, Nagel C, Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Pande R, Richardson M, Botterill K, Rogaly B. Brexit, race and migration. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 3-40.
• Nayak A. Purging the nation: race, conviviality and embodied encounters in the lives of British Bangladeshi Muslim young women. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2017, 42(2), 289–302.
• Nayak A. Young people, race and ethnicity. In: Furlong A, ed. Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: Second Edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2016, pp.58-66.
• Meer N, Nayak A. Race ends where? Race, racism and contemporary sociology. Sociology 2015, 49(6), NP3-NP20.
• Meer N, Nayak A, Pande R. Special Section Introduction: The Matter of Race. Sociological Research Online 2015, 20(3), 13.
• Nayak A. White Lines: Racist Graffiti, Skinhead Youth and Violence in the English Suburbs. In: Rinehart, R.E; emerald, e; and Matamua, R, ed. Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research: Tensions and Positionings. New York: Routledge, 2015, pp.145-162. In Preparation.
• Nayak A. Young People, Work and Worklessness. In: Blazek, M; and Kraftl, P, ed. Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice: Mapping and Making Spaces of Childhood. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, pp.122-137.
• Nayak A, Kehily MJ. 'Chavs, chavettes and pramface girls': Teenage mothers, marginalised young men and the management of stigma. Journal of Youth Studies 2014, 17(10), 1330-1345.
• Nayak A. Race: towards critical sociologies of subversion. British Journal of Sociology of Education 2014, 35(3), 475-483.
• Nayak A. Children's friendships. In: Sarah Bragg and Mary Jane Kehily, ed. Children and Young People's Cultural Worlds. Bristol: Policy Press, 2013, pp.109-165.
• Nayak A, Kehily MJ. Gender, Youth and Culture: Global Masculinities and Femininities. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013.
• Nayak A. Race, religion and British multiculturalism: The political responses of Black and Minority Ethnic voluntary organisations to multicultural cohesion. Political Geography 2012, 31(7), 454-463.
• Nayak A, Jeffrey A. Geographical Thought: An Introduction to Ideas in Human Geography. Harlow: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.
• Nayak A. Geography, race and emotions: social and cultural intersections. Social & Cultural Geography 2011, 12(6), 548-562.
• Nayak A. Race, affect, and emotion: young people, racism, and graffiti in the postcolonial English suburbs. Environment and Planning A 2010, 42(10), 2370-2392.
• Nayak A. Beyond the pale: chavs, youth and social class. In: Sveinsson KP, ed. Who Cares about the White Working Class?. London: Runnymede Trust, 2009, pp.28-35.
• Nayak A. Race, ethnicity and young people. In: Montgomery, H and Kellet, M, ed. Children and Young People's Worlds: Developing Frameworks for Integrated Practice. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2009, pp.90-108.
• Nayak A. The beer and the boys: masculine traditions in a post-industrial economy. In: Martino,W; Kehler, M; Weaver-Hightower, MB, ed. The Problem with Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash. New York: Routledge, 2009, pp.149-168.
• Nayak A. Youth, religion and multiculture. In: Montgomery, H and Kellet, M, ed. Children and Young People's Worlds: Developing Frameworks for Integrated Practice. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2009, pp.199-217.
• Nayak A, Kehily M. Gender, Youth and Culture: Young Masculinities and Femininities. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
• Kehily M, Nayak A. Global femininities: Consumption, culture and the significance of place. Discourse 2008, 29(3), 325-342.
• Nayak A. Young People’s Geographies of Racism and Anti-racism: The Case of North East England. In: Dwyer, C. and Bressey, C, ed. New Geographies of Race and Racism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.269-282.
• Nayak A. Critical whiteness studies. Sociology Compass 2007, 1(2), 737-755.
• Nayak A. After race: Ethnography, race and post-race theory. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2006, 29(3), 411-430.
• Nayak A. Displaced masculinities: Chavs, youth and class in the post-industrial city. Sociology 2006, 40(5), 813-831.
• Nayak A, Kehily M. Gender undone: Subversion, regulation and embodiment in the work of Judith Butler. British Journal of Sociology of Education 2006, 27(4), 459-472.
• Nayak A. Youth Subcultures. In: Cashmore E, ed. Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Relations. London: Routledge, 2004, pp.456-458.
• Nayak A. 'Boyz to men': Masculinities, schooling and labour transitions in de-industrial times. Educational Review 2003, 55(2), 147-159.
• Bonnett A, Nayak A. Geographies of race and racialization: The territory of race. In: Anderson K; Domosh M; Pile S; Thrift N, ed. The Handbook of Cultural Geography. London: Sage, 2003, pp.300-312.
• Nayak A. 'Ivory Lives': Economic Restructuring and the Making of Whiteness in a Post-industrial Youth Community. European Journal of Cultural Studies 2003, 6(3), 305-325.
• Nayak A. Last of the 'Real Geordies'? White masculinities and the subcultural response to deindustrialisation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2003, 21(1), 7-25.
• Nayak A. 'Pale warriors': skinhead culture and the embodiment of white masculinities. In: Kehily MJ; Swann J, ed. Children's Cultural Worlds. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons/Open University Press, 2003.
• Nayak A. Race, Place and Globalization : Youth Cultures in a Changing World. Oxford: Berg, 2003.
• Nayak A. 'Through children's eyes': Childhood, place and the fear of crime. Geoforum 2003, 34(3), 303-315.