Staff Profile
Dr Jacqui Close
Lecturer
- Email: jacqueline.close1@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 20887876
- Address: School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
Room G.10
20 Windsor Terrace
Newcastle, NE2 4HE
Teaching
My research interests lie in the complexities and experiences of everyday lives, including identities, inequalities and social justice. My undergraduate teaching spans methodology and theoretical perspectives and how the two inform and complement one another.
I am the Module Leader for the stage 2 module Class in Everyday Life (SOC2094).
In addition to teaching, I am also the Senior Tutor for Sociology students, and EDI Director for the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology.
Research
ESRC funded PhD completed 2017: Ideals and Expectations: Representations, Practices and Governance
of Contemporary Motherhood. This qualitative
research is based primarily on semi-structured interviews with mothers,
examining identity, neoliberal governance and moral worth. The thesis is an
exploration of the “truth” of mothering, which I argue can only be known by
examining the project of the child in the making of neo-liberal selves. It
builds a framework through setting out how a technology of governance works, identifying
the spread of doxa through neuroscience presumptions, and looks at how “wilful
dependency” has become a dominant discourse in the everyday and in policy-making.
Publications
- Close J. Tactics and strategies to survive 'student engagement', or joining the Soil Society and other stories: A panel discussion. Learning and Teaching 2018, 11(1), 109-130.