MICRO-BIO

• I am a principal lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). My research fields include media, power, reprsentation, culture, gender, and sexual violence. I have written two academic books - 'The Child at Risk...More

  I am a principal lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). My research fields include media, power, reprsentation, culture, gender, and sexual violence. I have written two academic books - 'The Child at Risk' (2007) and 'Gender and Popular Culture' (2011) - and published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. My current research interest is particularly foucsed on the role of the social media in the formation of dominant cultural discourses and the way in which digital culture has complicated (undermined?) key sociological and cultural concepts theorising media power. I am currently writing and editing the four-volume compendium 'Routledge Major Works: Gender and Popular Culture' with my colleague Dr Katie Milestone.

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EXPERIENCE

• Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Principal Lecturer in Sociology
  • Sociology
  • Present

EDUCATION

• Manchester University (UK)

  • PhD Sociology
  • September 2001 to September 2004

  Title: Governing the Child at Risk: Paedophilia, Media Discourses and Public Opinion

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