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Bella Dicks

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Dirprwy Gyfarwyddwr, Ysgol y Biowyddorau, Caerdydd

Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol

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Bella$acirc; s main research interests are in the field of cultural sociology, and particularly focus on placed identities, cultural representation, regeneration and heritage. They fall into three broad areas of research:

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  • Housley, W., Dicks, B., Henwood, K. L. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Editorial. Qualitative Research 15(1), pp. 3-3. (10.1177/1468794114567381)
  • Dicks, B. 2015. Heritage and social class. In: Waterton, E. and Watson, S. eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 366-38.

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Bella's main research interests are in the field of cultural sociology, and particularly focus on placed identities, cultural representation, regeneration and heritage. They fall into three broad areas of research:

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I am currently Reader in Sociology at Cardiff School of Social Sciences. My research is in the field of digital qualitative methods, heritage, museums, culture-led economic regeneration, social disadvantage and class. I am particularly interested in how places and people deal with the cultural and social dislocations accompanying de-industrialisation and how regeneration strategies connect (or otherwise) with community members on the ground. My 2000 book Heritage, Place and Community, traces the processes through which a south Wales coal-mine was transformed into a 'living history' museum, while the 2004 book Culture on Display critically appraises the contemporary regeneration focus on the production of place 'visitability'. I am currently pursuing research on regeneration within the Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), which is carrying out a number of comparative locality studies across Wales.

I have been an academic staff member at Cardiff University since 1993, when I arrived to take up a post as Tutorial Fellow in the then Dept of Social and Administrative Studies, and to pursue my doctoral research. I subsequently held a Research Fellowship working on the hypermedia project led by Prof. Paul Atkinson, Use Of Hypermedia Techniques In The Analysis & Dissemination Of Qualitative Data, and later became a lecturer in Sociology in the new School of Social Sciences.   Before coming to Wales, I was a researcher in at the then Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) in the Dept of Media, Culture and Communication. There I undertook research into the coalmining communities of Doncaster, an area in which I grew up. This sparked a life-long research interest in coalfield culture and regeneration.

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Mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn goruchwylio myfyrwyr PhD yn y meysydd canlynol mewn Cymdeithaseg:

  • Cymuned, cymdeithas sifil, cyfranogiad
  • Perthyn, lle/cenedl, cymdogaeth, cynhwysiant/gwaharddiad
  • Dosbarth, anghydraddoldebau, hunaniaethau
  • Treftadaeth, cof ar y cyd, amgueddfeydd a chanolfannau gwyddoniaeth, arddangosfa ddiwylliannol, twristiaeth
  • Adfywio, hunaniaethau ôl-ddiwydiannol lle/pobl
  • Rhyngweithiadau/methodolegau digidol ac ar-lein - ansoddol
  • Methodoleg ansoddol, ethnograffeg, amlfoddoldeb.