Dr Rachel Hurdley

Cymrawd Ymchwil

: HurdleyR1@caerdydd.ac.uk
: +44 29208 75069
: Adeilad Morgannwg, Ystafell 2.12 Adeilad Morgannwg, Rhodfa’r Brenin Edward VII, Caerdydd, CF10 3WA

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My research focuses on how identity and power relations are effected, transformed and fixed within:

Home, work & family
Everyday spaces & things
Belonging, remembering, excluding & forgetting
Methodology

The current Leverhulme-funded ethnography Rethinking Openness, Space and Organisation examines how power is organised into and out university spaces and materials. How is work collaboration transformed by a new $acirc; walk through$acirc; common room? How might an $acirc; accessible$acirc; building deter $acirc; the public$acirc; ? The research builds on The Power of Corridors . This unfolds how organisational culture happens within everyday interpersonal, spatial and material relations in the corridors of a university building.

Home, family, memory and identity as mundane practices - particularly focusing on materiality - are ongoing research interests. The monograph Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging was published in 2013. In Dismantling Mantelpieces , I explore closely how these are made, maintained, disposed of and changed through curating and narrating displays in the home. The film series Making Wales, Remembering Home , co-produced with refugees and $acirc; destitute$acirc; asylum seekers, emphasises how homes, memories and identities are precarious, tenuous processes.

2023

Hurdley, R. 2023. Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama. Qualitative Research (10.1177/14687941231176944)
Hurdley, R. 2023. Uncivilising sociology: how mass observation can free the discipline. In: Purcell, J. ed. Mass-Observation: Text, Context and Analysis of the Pioneering Pamphlet and Movement. The Mass-Observation Critical Series London: Bloomsbury, pp. 69-98.

2020

Hurdley, R. 2020. The meaning of home: defining domesticity in the modern age. In: Stratigakos, D. ed. A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age., Vol. 6. The Cultural Histories Series London: Bloomsbury, pp. 13-38.

2019

Hurdley, R. 2019. Drawing as a research method. In: Atkinson, P. et al. eds. Sage Research Methods. Sage, (10.4135/9781526421036838861)

2017

Hurdley, R., Biddulph, M., Backhaus, V., Hipwood, T. and Hossain, R. 2017. Drawing as radical multimodality: salvaging Patrick Geddes's material methodology. American Anthropologist 119(4), pp. 748-753. (10.1111/aman.12963)

2016

Hurdley, R. 2016. Everyday life. In: Inglis, D. and Almila, A. M. eds. The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Sage, pp. 372-389.

2015

Hurdley, R. 2015. Pretty pants and office pants: making home, identity and belonging in a workplace. In: Casey, E. and Taylor, Y. eds. Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 173-196.

2014

Hurdley, R. 2014. Synthetic sociology and the 'long workshop': How Mass Observation ruined meta-methodology. Sociological Research Online 19(3), pp. 177-202. (10.5153/sro.3376)

2013

Hurdley, R. 2013. Home, materiality, memory and belonging: keeping culture. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2011

Hurdley, R. and Dicks, B. 2011. In-between practice: working in the 'thirdspace' of sensory and multimodal methodology. Qualitative Research 11(3), pp. 277-292. (10.1177/1468794111399837)

2010

Hurdley, R. 2010. In the picture or off the wall? Ethical regulation, research habitus, and unpeopled ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry 16(6), pp. 517-528. (10.1177/1077800410370676)
Hurdley, R. 2010. The power of corridors: connecting doors, mobilising materials, plotting openness. The Sociological Review 58(1), pp. 45-64. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2009.01876.x)

2009

Dicks, B. and Hurdley, R. 2009. Using unconventional media to disseminate qualitative research. Qualitative Researcher 10, pp. 2-6.

2007

Hurdley, R. 2007. Focal points: Framing material culture and visual data. Qualitative Research 7, pp. 355-374. (10.1177/F1468794107078516)
Hurdley, R. 2007. Objecting relations: The problem of the gift. The Sociological Review 55(1), pp. 124-143. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00685.x)

2006

Hurdley, R. 2006. Dismantling mantelpieces: Narrating identities and materializing culture in the home. Sociology 40(4), pp. 717-733. (10.1177/0038038506065157)
Hurdley, R. 2006. Dismantling mantelpieces : consumption as spectacle and shaper of self in the home.. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

My research focuses on how identity and power relations are effected, transformed and fixed within:

Home, work & family
Everyday spaces & things
Belonging, remembering, excluding & forgetting
Methodology

The current Leverhulme-funded ethnography Rethinking Openness, Space and Organisation examines how power is organised into and out university spaces and materials. How is work collaboration transformed by a new 'walk through' common room? How might an 'accessible' building deter 'the public'? The research builds on The Power of Corridors. This unfolds how organisational culture happens within everyday interpersonal, spatial and material relations in the corridors of a university building.

Home, family, memory and identity as mundane practices - particularly focusing on materiality - are ongoing research interests. The monograph Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging was published in 2013. In Dismantling Mantelpieces, I explore closely how these are made, maintained, disposed of and changed through curating and narrating displays in the home. The film series Making Wales, Remembering Home, co-produced with refugees and 'destitute' asylum seekers, emphasises how homes, memories and identities are precarious, tenuous processes.

I have contributed to a number of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional doctorate courses in SOCSI, CPLAN, RGS and HISAR (now SHARE). These include:

Postgraduate

Qualitative Research Methods, Research Design and Practice, Difference and Equality, Latin Historical Texts, Mediaeval Historical Texts, Beginners$acirc; and Intermediate Latin

Undergraduate

Power, Culture, and Identity, Social Research Methods, Reading Latin I and II

With a joint Classics and English degree, I initially taught Classics at an Oxford school, while volunteering at a housing rights centre. Curious to explore the problem and meaning of $acirc; house and home$acirc; , I did a housing studies MSc. In 2006, I completed a PhD in housing, Dismantling Mantelpieces: consumption as spectacle and shaper of self in the home at the Cardiff School of Planning and Geography. Following my time as a researcher in the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods in Qualiti, I took up an ESRC post-doctoral fellowship in SOCSI. I was The Sociological Review Fellow 2009-10, writing a monograph, Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: keeping culture (2013). Making Wales, Remembering Home was a Beacon-funded collaborative film-making project with refugees and destitute asylum seekers. Building on a short study, The Power of Corridors , I am now doing an ethnography Rethinking Space, Openness and Organisation as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. This explores the relation between social, material and spatial interactions and relations on a university campus.

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