2010 PhD,  Social Mobility, Masculinity and Popular Music: the case of Glam Rock, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London 

2005 MA in Media and Communications with Distinction, Goldsmiths College, University of London

1992 BA (Hons) Communication Studies, 1st class, Nottingham Polytechnic, CNAA

Lecturing in the areas of media and cultural theory.

• Communication Studies
• Media Studies
• Cultural Studies

In addition to supervising dissertation students and teaching postgraduates, I've led and contributed to a number of university modules in recent years, which broadly match my research interests:

• Exploring working class culture
• Identity, difference and 'race'
• Knowledge, truth, power
• Media, culture and identity
• Media meanings
• Race and representation
• Rise of the mass media
• Sexual cultures
• Understanding Communication
• Understanding production and consumption
• Youth cultures

I am currently working on a monograph on the popualr music formation Glam Rock.

Recent publications:

• 'All the young dudes; educational capital, masculinity and the uses of popular music' in Popular Music, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)

Recent conference papers:

• September 2011, Striving for capital in the suburban wasteland: why social class is still relevant to the construction of youth scenes in Britain at The Inaugural Symposium of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change, London Metropolitan University.
• June 2011, 'I'm a man': the interrelation between social class and softer masculinities in the work of Jarvis Cocker at Softer Masculinities Symposium, Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London.
• July 2010, Working-class youth and social mobility: the case of glam rock at Youth 2010: Identities, Transitions, Cultures (BSA), University of Surrey.
• July 2010, “Likely lads” and “ear’oles”: working-class youth and popular culture at MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference, University of Glasgow.
• May 2010, Remade and remodelled: identity and the uses of popular music at Framing the Self: Anxieties of Identity in Literature & Culture, 1800 – Present, University of Portsmouth.

• Esteem indicators

• Referee for Popular Music Journal, Cambridge University Press

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