Research Profile
Dr Craig Gurney
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 76231
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74845
Address:Room 2.92, Glamorgan Building
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Urban Studies (First Class), Sheffield City Polytechnic (1988).
MA Urban and Regional Studies, University of Sussex (1989).
PhD Policy Studies, University of Bristol (1996).
Cert. Teaching in Further & Higher Education: (3 'M level' modules) Sheffield City Polytechnic (1992).
Research Interests
Craig's research expertise is the sociology of housing. His current research interests are in the following areas: the sociology of housing tenure; the meanings attached to home and home ownership; aural sociology; gender, sexuality and housing; privacy and embodiment; time and social theory; children, young people and housing; the use of metaphor in urban and housing discourse; the epistemological bases of housing studies, the housing imagination; cultural geography; the sociology of consumption; the sociology of the exchange professions.
Selected Publications
- Placing Changes: perspectives on place in housing and urban studies
- Space clearing: feng shui and the meaning of home
- Putting up: gender, hospitality and performance
- Transgressing public/private boundaries in the home: a sociological analysis of the coital noise taboo
- The significance of 'home' to the structure of disability: a sociological exploration of situated bodies and their emotions