Professor Imogen Tyler FAcSS

Professor of Sociology

Research Interests

Imogen Tyler (PhD, FAcSS) is Professor of Sociology. She is internationally renowned for her contributions to Social Theory and the Sociology of Inequalities. Her research on topics such as stigma, social abjection, social (in)justice, activism and social movements, social class, poverty and welfare, race and racisms, borders and citizenship has had global reach. Her published research has been widely adopted on university curricula across the world and is highly cited; Imogen is ranked in the world’s top 2% scientists (Stanford-Elsevier Rankings). Over the course of her career, Imogen has given 50+ Keynote and Public Lectures. She has received many awards and recognitions, including a Lancaster University Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research (2014) and a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2015). Revolting Subjects was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing and the Philip Abrams Prize. In 2018 Imogen was conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and is a serving council member (elected trustee) of the Academy of Social Sciences (2023- current).

Imogen is best known for her monographs Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (2015); and Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality (2020) - which combined have sold several thousand copies. She has published 50+ journal articles and book chapters, including the edited volumes The Sociology of Stigma (2018) and Immigrant Protest (2013), and field-defining articles such as ‘Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times’ (2015); ‘Designed to Fail: A Biopolitics of British Citizenship’(2009); ‘Against Abjection’ (2009); ‘”Chav Mum, Chav Scum”: Class disgust in contemporary Britain’ (2008).

Imogen has been awarded funding by the ESRC (2010, 2012); the Leverhulme Trust (2010, 2015), the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) (2009), and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2022). She has secured UKRI funding for 10 Doctoral scholarships (AHRC and ESRC) and has supervised 20+ PhD projects and 4 funded postdoctoral research projects (Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme, Swedish and Finish Research Councils). Imogen is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and regularly reviews grants and fellowship applications for UK and European universities, institutes and other grant giving bodies. She has served on several international advisory boards and is currently on the advisory board for the European Research Council project ‘Who Counts?’ re-examining the Profile, Drivers and Depth of Poverty across Europe (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

A passionate believer in public sociology, Imogen has engaged and collaborated with multiple civil society, think tank, charitable, community, and heritage organisations and groups. Her recent work with Lancaster Museums Service on the 18th century Black Lancastrians project, (funded by Art Fund, Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage and Association for Independent Museums), was the runner up for the 2023 Independent Museums Association Decolonizing Award & was featured as a GEM/Art-Fund re-imagining engagement case study. Other recent examples of engagement include her work with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s ‘Stigma, Poverty and Power: Stigma Free Futures’ project, and work with Poverty Truth Network and Lancaster Black History Group. Imogen has co-produced a number of publications, podcasts, videos and educational resources designed to make sociological research accessible to wider public and policy audiences For some recent examples, see, ‘Poverty stigma: a glue that holds poverty in place ‘(JRF Report, 2024); ‘Seeking Freedom: 18th-Century Black Lives in Northern England: Key Stage 2 Teaching Resource (2024, & adopted by the Morecambe Bay Curriculum); ‘the Stigma Conversations’ Podcast Series; ‘Enclosures and the Making of Modern Britain’, a Connected Sociologies Video Lecture [9k+ views]; and her graphic novel ‘From Stigma Power to Black Power’ (2018).

Imogen’s current research is focused on two connected projects:

  • Hard Times: Poverty and Protest in Britain
  • Elemental Inequalities: Struggles for Life Against State-Sanctioned Killing

These projects have different areas of focus. What connects them is the use of historical and sociological research methods - including participatory research with ‘communities of resistance’ -- to critically examine the social, political and environmental permacrisis of the current conjuncture (and in doing, to help us to imagine and build alternatives). These two projects (variously) develop theories of ‘thanatocracy’ (Linebaugh & Kelley, 2024), ‘necroeconomics’ (Skeggs, 2020), ‘artificial scarcity’ (Heron, Milburn & Russell, 2025); and ‘asset-class struggle’ (Swyngedouw & Ward, 2024). These projects have emerged out Imogen’s ongoing research and engagement with clinicians, medics, social & care workers, charities and activists working at the front-line of the UK's cumulative welfare crisis, including work with communities most affected by deepening poverty and ill-health within the British state, and activist groups practicing and forging alternative futures.

Imogen currently convenes and teaches the 2nd year core UG module, Global Social Theory and the 2nd year UG option module, Welfare States: Histories and Futures, contributes lectures across the UG and PGT sociology programme, and supervises UG & PGT dissertation projects.

Google Scholar Profile

Personal Website: https://imogentyler.uk/

Primary Research Interests: Social and Economic Inequalities; Health Inequalities; Social Theory; Historical Sociology; Stigma (Power); Welfare, Poverty; Housing; Class Struggle; Race and Anti-Racism; Colonial Capitalist Enclosures; Rural Inequalities; Land, Resource and Asset Stuggles; Commons and Commoning; Colonialism and Decolonisation; Borders and Citizenship; Social and Health Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change; Waste Colonialism; Pollution; Social Movements; Historical and Genealogical Methods and Approaches; Community-Aligned and Participatory Research Methods: Community Engagement; Scholar & Art-Activism (including Heritage and Museums).

PhD Supervision

Imogen welcomes applications from MPhil, PhD and Post-Doctoral researchers working in any area of social inequalities (broadly defined) and particularly welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds who want to actively engage with communities and publics beyond academia and seek to produce "actionable knowledge" in the service of more just and equitable futures.

Recent and current examples of MPhil/PhD projects supervised include Victoria Frausin’s ‘Waste Colonialism: Grounding Theory Using Participatory Methods in The North of England’; Daisy Barker’s ESRC project ‘The Covid-19 Pandemic, Citizens Advice, and Continual Crises: Living with the Collapse of the Political Economy of Social Reproduction’ and Dan Harrison’s ESRC-CASE project ‘Disabling Austerity: An Ethnographic Study of the Poverty Truth Movement in Morecambe Bay’.

Selected Publications

The hieroglyphics of the border: racial stigma in neoliberal Europe
Tyler, I.E. 15/06/2018 In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 41, 10, p. 1783-1801. 19 p.
Journal article

Benefits broods: the cultural and political crafting of anti-welfare commonsense
Jensen, T., Tyler, I. 1/11/2015 In: Critical Social Policy. 35, 4, p. 470-491. 22 p.
Journal article

Classificatory struggles: class, culture and inequality in neoliberal times
Tyler, I. 1/05/2015 In: The Sociological Review. 63, 2, p. 493–511. 19 p.
Journal article

Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
Tyler, I. 11/01/2013 London : Zed Books. 253 p. ISBN: 9781848138513 . Electronic ISBN: 9781848138537.
Book

Immigrant protest: politics, aesthetics, and everyday dissent
Marciniak, K., Tyler, I. 11/2014 New York : SUNY Press. 320 p. ISBN: 9781438453118. Electronic ISBN: 9781438453125.
Book

The business of child detention: charitable co-option, migrant advocacy and activist outrage
Tyler, I., Gill, N., Conlon, D., Oeppen, C. 07/2014 In: Race and Class. 56, 1, p. 3-21. 19 p.
Journal article

Naked protest: the maternal politics of citizenship and revolt
Tyler, I. 25/04/2013 In: Citizenship Studies. 17, 2, p. 211-226. 16 p.
Journal article

Designed to fail : a biopolitics of British Citizenship.
Tyler, I. 02/2010 In: Citizenship Studies. 14, 1, p. 61-74. 14 p.
Journal article

Against abjection.
Tyler, I. 04/2009 In: Feminist Theory. 10, 1, p. 77-98. 22 p.
Journal article

"Chav Mum, Chav Scum" : class disgust in contemporary Britain.
Tyler, I. 03/2008 In: Feminist Media Studies. 8, 1, p. 17-34. 18 p.
Journal article

Immigrant Protest: An Introduction
Tyler, I., Marciniak, K. 25/04/2013 In: Citizenship Studies. 17, 2, 14 p.
Editorial

Celebrity chav : fame, femininity and social class.
Tyler, I., Bennett, B. 08/2010 In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 13, 3, p. 375-393. 19 p.
Journal article

Welcome to Britain: The Cultural Politics of Asylum.
Tyler, I. 05/2006 In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 9, 2, p. 185-202. 18 p.
Journal article

Networks of Asylum Advocacy: A Handbook of Ideas, Strategies and Best Practice for Asylum Support Groups in a Challenging Social and Economic Climate
Tyler, I. 2012 Exeter : Exeter University. 45 p.
Other report

Pregnant Beauty : maternal femininities under neoliberalism.
Tyler, I. 01/2011 In: New femininities : postfeminism, neoliberalism and identity. Palgrave 344 p. ISBN: 978-0230223349.
Chapter

Pramfaced Girls: the class politics of "Maternal TV"
Tyler, I. 2011 In: Reality Television and Class. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan p. 210-224. 15 p. ISBN: 9781844573981 .
Chapter

Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power
Tyler, I.E. 07/2018 In: The Sociological Review. 66, 4, p. 744-765. 22 p.
Journal article

From Revolting Subjects to Stigma Machines
Tyler, I.E. 10/08/2017
Other contribution

Lesbian brides: post-queer popular culture
McNicholas Smith, K.M., Tyler, I.E. 2/02/2017 In: Feminist Media Studies. 17, 3, p. 315-331. 17 p.
Journal article

Democratic Fascism
Tyler, I.E. 21/11/2016
Other contribution

80 years of war against workfare
Tyler, I.E. 14/09/2016 The Precariat, p. 24. 1 p.
Article

In a world of commonplace horrors, how do we talk about the refugee crisis?
Tyler, I.E., Loyd, J. 1/12/2015 Open Democracy
Article

Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Poverty and Stigma Design Team
01/11/2022 → 01/11/2023
Consultancy

The Stigma Conversations Podcast Series
01/06/2022 → 01/03/2023
Other

Lancaster Slavery Family Trees Community Researh Project
01/10/2020 → …
Research

Social Action Research Group
12/06/2020 → …
Research

Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission
01/07/2018 → 30/06/2021
Other

Philip Leverhulme Prize: Sociology and Social Policy
01/09/2015 → 31/12/2018
Research

The Sociology of Stigma
25/03/2013 → …
Research

ESRC Seminar Series ‘Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention‘.
01/09/2012 → 31/12/2014
Other

Maternal Publics and Counter Publics
01/01/2011 → …
Other

Revolting Subjects : Marginalisation and Resistance
01/09/2010 → 23/03/2012
Research

FEC Code: for EAA7033 Making asylum seekers legible and visibl
01/07/2010 → …
Research

Making aslum seekers legible and visible
01/07/2010 → 31/12/2011
Research

FP7: EPOK
01/02/2009 → 30/04/2012
Research

Eleanor Rathbone Social Justice Public Lecture
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Cotton Famine History Panel
Invited talk

Lancaster and the Slavery Business Walking Tour
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

ESRC Peer Review College (External organisation)
Member of external research organisation

Lancaster Litfest
Participation in conference - Public

Book launch Andy Knox 'Sick Society: Reimagining How We Live Well together"
Invited talk

Low cost practice
Invited talk

CaKE Break on Public and Community Engagement: Engaging with Communities Experiencing Poverty – From Austerity to the “Cost of Living Crisis”
Invited talk

The rise and fall of anti-welfare attitudes, and what it means for welfare reform in 2024 and beyond, (Academy of Social Science: Campaign for Social Science)
Invited talk

Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Stigma Free Futures
Consultancy

Stigma and poverty, Welsh policy unit
Participation in conference - Public

Who Do we think We are: Connected Sociologies Workshop
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Destigmatising Welfare
Invited talk

Imagined Portraits: Lela Harris and Imogen Tyler in Conversation
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Imagined Portraits: Lela Harris and Imogen Tyler in Conversation
Invited talk

The Architecture Of Stigma
Invited talk

Destigmatising Welfare
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Academy of Social Sciences (External organisation)
Membership of council

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, SPAIN (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel

Advisory Board Member: WHOCOUNTS (ERC Starting Grant)
Consultancy

Poverty Kills Kids
Invited talk

Living in the Wake of Colonial Capitalism; Racism, Poverty and Class Struggle
Invited talk

Joseph Rowntree Foundation Stigma Power and Poverty Design Team
Consultancy

Stigma and Poverty Design Team
Consultancy

Joesph Rowntree Foundation: Stigma and Poverty Design Team
Consultancy

Lancaster Black History Group and Lancaster City Museums slavery family trees exhibition
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Expert evidence to Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Poverty: Evidence Session on Stigma and Poverty
Oral presentation

‘How the British Nationality Act 1981 laid the foundations for a stateless population within Britain's borders’ episode of Who do we think we are? with Michaela Benson
Oral presentation

Hanging Town, Haunted City: Researching Connected Sociologies of Colonial Capitalism in Place
Invited talk

Sewing Cafe Lancaster, Lancaster Black History Group and Lancaster University Launch of Slavery Family Trees Banner
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Enclosures and the Making of the Modern World
Invited talk

Facing the Past, Transforming the Future: Histories of Slavery and Capitalism in Lancaster and District
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Social Power and Mental Health
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Stigma Machine of Welfare
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

National Poverty Truth Network (External organisation)
Membership of board

'Seeing and Unseeing Poverty' Love Economics
Invited talk

2019 BSA Annual Conference
Invited talk

Stigma Machines Public Lecture York
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

ISA world Congress of Sociology
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission Launch Event
Other

Keynote: the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) and European SSSI International Conference
Invited talk

Stigma Machines: Public Lecture at the Centre for British Studies Humboldt Uni Berlin
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges
Invited talk

Welfare Workshop: Welfare Imaginaries Seminar
Invited talk

Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Inequalities in the UK, Public Panel/Debate with Danny Dorling, Akwugo Emejulu, Imogen Tyler
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Panel Discussion for Fashion Revolution Week Lancaster
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Social Policy, Sociology & Criminology Birmingham University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Panel Discussion on Inequalities at British Sociological Association conference 2018
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Stigma, Health, and Inequality: A Two-Day Workshop
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Stigma, Health, and Inequality: A Two-Day Workshop
Invited talk

The Sociological Review (Journal)
Editorial activity

European Journal of Cultural Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity

Annual Conference for the German Association for the Study of British Culture
Invited talk

The Ferret, Scotland’s award-winning investigative journalism cooperative, is holding its Autumn media conference at Strathclyde University, bringing together some of the best and most innovative from the journalism community so we can learn from one another and shape the future of journalism in Scotland.
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Third international conference on cultural political economy conference 2017
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Stigma in Childhood
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Seminar Presentation
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

British Sociological Association Conference 2017
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Special session on Stigma: BSA Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference, University of Leeds, 6th-8th September, 2016.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

sociological review annual lecture
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Why is My Curriculum White? campaign launch, Lancaster University, 21st April, 2016
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Political Economy and Emotion: Into the Heart of State, Space and Power, Liverpool University, 11th April, 2016.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Economy and Austerity, Liverpool University, 4th December, 2015.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Workshop Refugee Mobilizations, Institut Für Protest, Berlin, 3rd Novembers, 2015.
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Public panel discussion on the topic of Austerity and Human Rights in Europe
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Disability. Austerity. Resistance
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

LSE Gender Institute
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Warwick University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Annual Social Theory Public Lecture Warwick University
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

A Public Conference on the Feminist Politics of Popular Culture part of a Lancaster City Wide Feminist Festival for International Women's Day 2015
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

getting with the programme: troubled families
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Sociological Review Annual Lecture
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The Business of Immigration Detention: Activisms, Resistances, Critical Interventions.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Political Subjects’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Revolting Subjects
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Departmental Seminar Series at the Department of Social Work and Social Care
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The Stigma Doctrine
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Assembly for Change
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

"Does 'poverty porn' undermine the Welfare State?"
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

'The Neoliberal Refashioning of Citizenship’
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Centre for Applied Philosophy Politics and Ethics 9th Annual International, Interdisciplinary Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English'
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ESRC Seminar Series Social Issues and Anxieties: Revisiting Moral Panics for the 21st Century
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Warwick University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Radical Book Fair,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

LSE Gender Institute’s 20th anniversary conference, ‘The Presence of Gender’.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Social Abjection
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

edinburgh university geography depatment seminar
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Sociological Association Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Sociological Association
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Inclusion Scotland
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

class: the elephant in the room
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Feminism and the Digital - researching spaces, communities and the media
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The Sociological Review (Journal)
Editorial activity

Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Migrant Resistance: Protests, Art, and Movements Transeuropa Festival 2013, Supported by Migrant Voice and Migrants’ Rights Network
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Symposium on Disgust
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Shimmering, Shining, Vomiting, Glitter: the politics and poetics of disgust
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Book Launch and talk, Edinburgh Radical Book Fair
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Revolting Subjects’ Book Launch and talk
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The Economics of Illegality
Invited talk

Uni of Sussex
Visiting an external academic institution

Symposium on Revolting Subjects (Lecture and PG workshop)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Symposium on Revolting Subjects, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood & Youth and Centre for Gender Studies,
Invited talk

Manchester Metropolitan University, Educational Research Centre Seminar
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The Riots of the Underclass?: Stigmatisation, Mediation and the Government of Poverty and Disadvantage in Neoliberal Britain.
Invited talk

‘Mothering and the New Politics of Parenting’
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

British Sociological Society Event ‘Mothering and the New Politics of Parenting’,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Mothering and the New Politics of Parenting’ BSA Families and Relationship Study Group
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

"Eviction and Occupation: The struggles of Irish Travellers in Britain." Youth, Community and Regeneration group.
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Talk ‘Eviction and Occupation: The Struggles of Irish Travellers in Britain.’
Invited talk

'Naked Protest: Maternal Politics and the Feminist Commons'
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

‘Naked Protest: Maternal Politics and the Feminist Commons': Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society
Invited talk

‘Different Subject, Diverse Strands: Diversity at the (Inter)discipline’
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

ESRC Seminar Series, Critical Diversities @ the Intersection: Policies, Practices, Perspectives
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Poverty Kills Children
Invited talk

FEMINIST SPACES AND FUTURES
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Sociological Association, Gender Study Group
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Forthcoming Feminisms: Gender Activism, Politics and Theories' British Sociological Association, Gender Study Group
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots one year on
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The International Migration Centre, Canadian Sociological Association, Canadian Association of Geographers
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The International Migration Centre, Canadian Sociological Association, Canadian Association of Geographers, The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Leeds Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, Leeds University.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Naked Protest.’ Gender Institute, Leeds University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The Kids are Revolting. But why?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

‘Immigrant Protest.’ Symposium on Immigrant Protest
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Immigrant Protest: Political Aesthetics
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

THE EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Motherhood, Servitude, and the Delegation of Care
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Servitude and Motherhood.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Birthrites Exhibition
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Disobedience Day
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Birth Rites
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Public Lecture: Private View: Public Birth
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Seminar paper Sociology Department LSE
Invited talk

Feminist Media Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity

ACR Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Association of Consumer Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Abject Social Figures.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Immigrant Protest: Migrancy, Borders, Resistance Workshop
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Katarzyna Marciniak
Hosting an academic visitor

Sociological Research Online (Journal)
Editorial activity

‘Maternal Bodies and Identities in Contemporary Britain.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Maternal Bodies and Identities in Contemporary Britain
Invited talk

Immigrant Protest: The Ethics and Politics of Scholarship on Asylum in Britain
Invited talk

Mother Trouble Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Mother Trouble
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Emotional Labour Centre for Gender and Womens Studies
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Studies in Maternal Journal Launch Birkbeck
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Journal Launch speech for Studies in the Maternal
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Maternal Publics (and Counter-Publics).’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Representing the Maternal -- A speaker series presented by the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design to discuss representations of motherhood and related work/life issues.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Public Lecture: Why the Maternal Now?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

European Journal of Cultural Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity

Studies in The Maternal (Journal)
Editorial activity

Going Cheap: Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ERSC funded seminar on Motherhood, Markets and Consumption, Lancaster University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

‘White Trash Aesthetics: The affectivity of social class.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ERSC funded seminar, Marketing Department,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Seminar Series,Gender and Media Group
Invited talk

‘The Dawn Raid: Immigrant Protest.’ Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Interdisciplinary Institute (MISST), Manchester Metropolitan University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

'Chav Scum: The filthy politics of social class.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Interrupting Maternal Voices: Between the Theoretical and Empirical, MAMSiE, Birbeck College, London
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Against Abjection.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living programme, IAS, Lancaster University.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘The Biopolitics of Citizenship.’ New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

State, Violence and Subjectivities: Conversations with Prof. Veena Das, Lancaster University.
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Melancholic States International conference, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Performing the Border.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Emotion, Culture, Affect: Feminist Engagements, Goldsmiths College
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘Chav Mum.’ Emotion, Culture, Affect: Feminist Engagements
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

(Un)Making Personhood
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

‘The Lie of the Land: The Immigration Industry and the Economics of Melancholia.’ (Un)Making Personhood,
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Birth: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction International Conference, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

School
School Engagement

Maternal Bodies, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Identity Matters
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Lauren Berlant
Hosting an academic visitor

Visual Culture and Motherhood
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

War, Terror, Spectacle, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

'The Culture of Narcissism.’ Power, Ethics and Feminism Conference,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Power, Ethics and Feminism
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

War and Media Conference, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Lancaster University Staff Award 2014: Outstanding Contribution to Research in Inequalities
Prize (including medals and awards)

Lancaster University Staff Award 'Outstanding Contribution' to research in Social Inequalities
Prize (including medals and awards)

Bread and Roses Book Prize (shortlisted)
Prize (including medals and awards)

Bolton Institute of Higher Education Annual Prize for the Highest Undergraduate Degree Result
Prize (including medals and awards)

Philip Leverhulme Prize
Prize (including medals and awards)

Faculty of Arts and Social Science: Outstanding Contribution to Student experience Award
Prize (including medals and awards)

Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences
Election to learned society

  • Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities
  • Centre for Gender Studies
  • Migrancy Research Group