Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Career Profile

Academic Employment

• Sept, 2012   Professor in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
• Sept, 2009   Reader in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
• Sept, 2006   Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
• Sept, 2003   Lecturer in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
• Sept, 2000-3   Full-time Lecturer (Social Work, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University) - three year fixed term contract
• Mar, 2000   Education Research Fellow (0.5, job share) (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
• May 1999-Jan 2000   Research Associate (School of Social Sciences): Secured funding (from NSPCC) to undertake a literature review on 'Child Pornography and the Exploitation of Children' (£6000)
• Oct 1998-Apr 1999   Part-time Research Officer (0.4) MRC-funded project entitled 'Women's experience of breast related problems' (University of Wales, College of Medicine)
• Oct 1998-Apr 2000   Part-time Research Officer (0.5) ESRC-funded project “Peer Violence in Children’s Homes” (part of Violence Research Programme).

Education and Qualifications

• 1994-1999   PhD in Sociology of Education (School of Education, Cardiff University) Title: ‘Presumed Innocence: An Ethnographic Exploration into the Construction of Gender and Sexual Identities in the Primary School.
• 1994-1995   Diploma in Social Science Research Methods (School of Education, Cardiff University)
• 1991-1994   English literature/Education BA - First class honours (Cardiff University)

PhD Students

Completed

• Dr Alexandra Allan (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship. “Struggling for Success: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Construction of Young Femininities in a Selective, Single-Sex School” (co-supervised with Amanda Coffey)
• Dr David Mellor (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship; 'Playground Romance: An ethnography of children's investments in romantic love.' (co-supervised with Debbie Epstein)
• Dr Nicola Critchlow  (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship: Children's representations of authority figures in the home and school (co-supervised with Sally Holland and Raya Jones)
• Dr Nika Varvara (Full-time) Bullying and children with special needs (co-supervised with Raya Jones)
• Dr Kelly Buckley (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship. “'Keeping it Real: Young working class femininities and celebrity culture' (co-supervised with Bella Dicks)
• Dawn Mannay (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship “Mothers and daughters on the margins: gender, generation and education” (co-supervised with Bella Dicks and John Fitz)
• Tabitha Ong (part-time) The Role of Global Values in Regard to the Family Life Cycle in Hong Kong with Specific Regard to Young Adults’ Perception of Marriage, Parenthood and Family Responsibility in Late Modernity (co-supervised with Andy Pithouse)
• Naomi Holford (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship “Normative abuse: investigating issues of gender and power in heterosexualised violence within teenage partner relationships” (co-supervised with Amanda Robinson)
• Mike Ward (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship “The performance of young working class masculinities in the South Wales valleys” (Co-supervised with Debbie Epstein)

Ongoing

• Jennifer Smith (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship Gender and Sexuality in the Early Years: An Ethnography (co-supervised with Debbie Esptein)
• Josie Austin (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship “Young people and sexual learning in an era of ‘sexualisation’ – A mixed-methods approach” (Co-supervised with Sara MacBride-Stewart)
• Hannah Iqbal (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship “Refugee Children in Britain: a Study of Wellbeing, Integration and Resilience” (Co-supervised with Gareth Williams)
• Ian Thomas (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship (Homo)sex out of the city: the digital cultures of rural men who have sex with men (co-supervised with Matthew Williams)
• Helen Sivey (full-time) self-funded, Growing up queer: non-heterosexual maturity narratives (co-supervised with Radikah Mohanram, ENCAP)

Projects

Please visit the Projects Page.

Major National and International Conference Organization

• 2012-2014   Understandings of the young sexual body, (13,500K) (with Hoggat, University of Greenwich, Walker, Anglia Ruskin University, Koffman, Kings College, University of London and Ringrose, Institute of Education, University of London)
• Dec 2011  Pornified: Complicating the debates about the sexualisation of culture, Institute of Education (co-organising with Ringrose, Gill, Barker)
• March 2012   Young Sexualities and Sexualisation: Children and young people in wales speak back, Cardiff University (leading and co-organising with Children’s Commissioner for Wales) Cardiff News / Cardiff Events
• 2011   Girls, Sexuality and Sexualisation: Beyond Spectacle and Sensationalism, Cardiff University (international seminar, as part of ESRC Pornification seminar series)
• 2009-2011   Pornification? Complicating the debates about the 'sexualisation of culture' with Gill, R. (Kings) and Ringrose, J. (IoE) £18.7K
• ESRC Festival of Social Science 2009   ‘By Us, For Us, About Us’: A Children and Young People’s Festival of Participation in Research
• 2008   Difference and Sameness?: Sexualities, Schooling and Schizoid Agendas, invited one-day conference, Institute of Education, 30 October (funded and organised by BERA Sexualities SIG).
• 2005-7   ESRC-funded National Seminar Series, Girls in Education (3-16) (with Professor Carrie Paechter, Goldsmiths and Dr. Carolyn Jackson, Lancaster University), £13.5K
• 2005   Pleasure and Danger Revisited, Sexualities in the 21st Century' International   Conference, SOCSI, Cardiff University, 30 June-2 July
• 2004   Gender, Power and Difference’ International Bi-Annual Gender and Education Association Conference, SOCSI, Cardiff University, 31 Mar-2 April