Staff Profile

Introduction

Chris Haywood is a Reader in Critical Masculinity Studies. He has been Director of Research, Director of Teaching and Learning and Director of Postgraduate Studies. He is interested in exploring how different conceptual deployments of masculinity shape what we know and are able to know about gender and sexuality. His previous work has included examining different dating practices, including speed dating, online dating, holiday romance, anonymous sex and mobile romance. Alongside this, his research interests include cultural analyses of schooling and education, with an emphasis on the interplay between gender, generation and 'Race' /ethnicity. His current research explores the hidden world of sex clubs. Traditionally called swingers’ clubs, it is estimated that each year in the UK, over a million men and women visit these clubs for anonymous sex. His book, “Sex Club: Recreational Sex, Fantasies and Cultures of Desire” (2022, Palgrave), explores sex club cultures through themes such as power and erotic hierarchies, hypersexualized black bodies, ‘sexually insatiable women’, queer heterosexualities, trans desires, and spaces of non-consent in dangerous, high-risk spaces.

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Men Masculinity and Dating

Contemporary dating practices, such as online dating, speed dating and mobile romance are emerging alongside more traditional dating practices, such as family and friend introductions, meetings in bars and clubs and encounters in everyday social life. Although studies are beginning to identify the transformational potential of these contemporary dating practices for women, Lesbian and Gay communities and young people (see for example, Harcourt, 2005; Gomez, 2010; Bauermeister et al., 2012), there is relatively less research that explores how heterosexual men are responding to these changes. This project responds to the need for research that provides more empirically grounded data on heterosexual men’s identities and subjectivities (Hockey et al, 2007; Mooney-Somers and Ussher, 2010).At present, we remain highly dependent upon media narratives that offer contradictory accounts of men’s responses to contemporary dating practices. On one hand, such narratives are claiming that that new forms of dating are providing men with the opportunity to be more caring and sensitive (Hilton, 2011; Burke, 2012). On the other, such accounts are suggesting that there is a ‘menaissance’ – a cultural moment where ‘post-sensitive’ men are responding to change by drawing upon traditional masculine tropes such as emotional stoicism and toughness (Haddow, 2010; Fitzgerald, 2012). Furthermore, despite the increasing availability of dating advice in magazines and on television, radio and the internet, very little guidance and support is available for heterosexual men to help them navigate the social, emotional, health and physical risks associated with contemporary dating practices. This project responds to a current absence in the field to explain the relationships between, men, masculinity and dating.

Undergraduate Teaching

In the past, I have led modules on Social Research Methods, Contemporary Social Issues and Advanced Social and Cultural Theory. At present, I lead on:   

MCH 2071 Sex, Sexuality and Desire 

MCH 3073 & MCH 3072 Research Dissertation

Postgraduate Teaching

I contribute to the following modules: 

M.A Media Analysis 

M.A Methodologies

I also supervise 5 Master's students each year. 

Postgraduate Research Students 

Dana Bogova

Manoj Wickrama Waduralalage

Quynh Tran

Nick Jensen 

• Haywood C. Men, Masculinity and Contemporary Dating. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Haywood C, Johansson T, Hammarén N, Herz M, Ottemo A. The Conundrum of Masculinity: Hegemony, Homosociality, Homophobia and Heteronormativity. New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 2017.
• Haywood C, Johannson T, ed. Marginalized Masculinities : Contexts, Continuities and Change. New York: Routledge, 2017.
• Xiodong L, Haywood C, Macanghaill M, ed. East Asian Masculinities and Sexualities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Macanghaill M, Haywood C, ed. Muslims, Ethnicity and Higher Education. Palgrave, 2017. In Preparation.
• Haywood C. ‘Leaving masculinity at the car door’: Dogging, de-subjectification and the pursuit of pleasure. Sexualities 2018, 21(4), 587-604.
• Haywood C, Siripai J. 'Branding Men’: Exploring Men, Masculinity and Thai alcohol brands in East Asian Global Markets. In: Xiadong Lin; Haywood C; Mac an Ghaill M, ed. East Asian Masculinities and Sexualities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp.143-161.
• Haywood C, MacanGhaill M. Epistemologies of Difference: Masculinity, Marginalisation and Young British Muslim Men. In: Haywood, C; Johansson, T, ed. Marginalized Masculinities: Contexts, Continuities and Change. New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 2017.
• Lowe J, Ghaill MM, Haywood CP. The Cultural (Re)production of Masculinities Class, Chinese Ethnicity and Elite Schooling in Indonesia. Asian Journal of Social Science 2016, 44(4-5), 600-625.
• MacanGhaill M, Haywood C. (Dis)locating Masculinities: Ethnographic reflections of British Muslim young men. In: A. Cornwall and N. Lindsfarne, ed. (Dis)locating Masculinities Revisited. London: Routledge, 2015. In Press.
• Haywood C, Macanghaill M. Critical Masculinity Studies. In: S.Sim, ed. Routledge Companion to European Critical Theory. London: Routledge, 2015. In Preparation.
• Haywood C, Macanghaill M, Allen J. Masculinity on the Home Front: The New War on Boys. Journal of Bohood Studies 2015. In Preparation.
• Macanghail M, Haywood C. Being Irish and male in Britain. In: T. Inglis, ed. Are the Irish Different?. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.
• MacanGhaill M, Haywood C. British-Born Pakistani and Bangladeshi Young Men: Exploring Unstable Concepts of Muslim, Islamophobia and Racialization. Critical Sociology 2014, 41(1), 97-114.
• MacanGhaill M, Haywood C. Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men: re-racialization, class and masculinity within the neo-liberal school. British Journal of Sociology of Education 2014, 35(5), 753-776.
• Haywood C, MacanGhaill M. Education and Masculinities: Social, Cultural and Global Transformations. Routledge, 2013.
• Mac-an-Ghaill M, Haywood C, Bright Z. Making Connections: Speed Dating, Masculinity and Interviewing. In: Pini, B; Pease, B, ed. Men, Masculinities and Methodologies. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013, pp.77-89.
• Mac an Ghaill M, Haywood C. Understanding boys': Thinking through boys, masculinity and suicide. Social Science and Medicine 2012, 74(4), 482-489.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. 'What’s next for masculinity?' Reflexive directions for theory and research on masculinity and education. Gender and Education 2012, 24(6), 577-592.
• Mac an Ghaill M, Haywood C. ‘Nothing to write home about’: Troubling concepts of home, racialization and self in theories of Irish male (e)migration. Cultural Sociology 2011, 5(3), 385-402.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. ‘The Queer in Masculinity’: Schooling, boys and identity formation. In: Rodriguez, N; Landreau, J, ed. Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education. London, UK: Springer, 2011.
• Mac an Ghaill M, Haywood C. Schooling, masculinity and class analysis: towards an aesthetic of subjectivities. British Journal of Sociology of Education 2011, 32(5), 729-744.
• Haywood C. Genders and sexualities: Exploring the conceptual limits of contemporary educational research. International Studies in Sociology of Education 2008, 18(1), 1-14.
• Mac an Ghaill M, Haywood C. Gender, Culture and Society: Contemporary Femininities and Masculinities. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Mac an Ghaill M, Haywood C, Popoviciu L. Masculinity, teaching and homophobia. In: Bank, BJ, ed. Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007, pp.677-682.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. Knowing Sexualities: Epistemologies of Research. In: Hobs, D; Wright, R, ed. The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork. London: Sage Publications Ltd, 2006, pp.185-200.
• Popoviciu L, Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. The promise of post-structuralist methodology: ethnographic representation of education and masculinity. Ethnography and Education 2006, 1(3), 393-412.
• Mac an Ghaill M, Haywood C, Popoviciu L. Feminisation and schooling; re-masculinisation, gendered reflexivity and boyness. Irish Journal of Sociology 2005, 14(2), 193-212.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. Researching Schooling and the Making of English Boys. In: Frank, BW; Davison, KG, ed. Masculinities and Schooling: International Practices and Perspectives. Toronto: Altman Press, 2005.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. Young Bangladeshi People's Experience of Transition to Adulthood. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2005.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. Blair's Men: Dissident Masculinities In Labour's New Moral Economy. In: Steinberg, DL; Johnson, R, ed. Blairism and the War of Persuasion: Labour's Passive Revolution. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2004, pp.133-145.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research and Social Practice. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2003.
• Mac an Ghaill M, Haywood C. Young (male) Irelanders: Postcolonial ethnicities - expanding the nation and Irishness. European Journal of Cultural Studies 2003, 6(3), 386-403.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. Boys schooling: English practices and perspectives. In: Frank, BW; Davidson, K, ed. Masculinities, Nationalisms and Schooling: International Perspectives. Canada: Fernwood, 2002.
• Haywood C. Schools of recognition: identity politics and classroom practices. Educational Review 2002, 54(3), 319-320.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. The Significance of Teaching English Boys: Exploring Social Change, Modern Schooling and the Making of Masculinities. In: Martino, W; Meyenn, B, ed. What about the Boys?: Issues of Masculinity in Schools. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001, pp.24-37.
• Haywood C, Mac an Ghaill M. Materialism and deconstructivism: education and the epistemology of identity. Cambridge Journal of Education 1997, 27(2), 261-272.