York Sociology Podcast
This podcast seeks to explore the academic trajectory of the Sociology staff at the University of York. Through the interests and reflections of the academics, we will reconstruct the paths that led them to their current position. This podcast is hosted by Camila Toledo and Matthew Butler. The design was done by Manli Zhu.
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Episodes
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Dr Clare Jackson will tell us about the different paths that her life took and how she embarked on a PhD in sociology and became an academic.
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Dr Gareth Millington will tell us about how his experience as a school teacher influenced his PhD topic and his academic research.
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Dr. Ruth Penfold-Mounce will tell us about how she switched from English literature to sociology and how her interest in criminology arose.
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Dr. Baptiste Brossard will talk about how he built his career in sociology and why he is interested in the study of mental health.
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Dr. Mary Laing will tell us about how she became interested in the topic of sex work and how, through her work with non-governmental organisations, she ended up studying sex work from the perspective of human geography and then sociology.
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Professor David Beer will talk about his understanding of writing in the academy and his research projects throughout his university career.
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Dr. Tom O'Brian will tell us about how an encounter with a teacher at the polytechnic changed his career path and how his interest in political science emerged.
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Dr. Jennifer Chubb will tell us about how her interests led her to study Artificial Intelligence and how her interest in music led her to conduct a study linking Artificial Intelligence and music in films.
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Dr. Daryl Martin will tell us about how his interests moved from English literature to Sociology and the various detours his career took before he came to study urbanism from a sociological perspective.
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Dr. Raphael Nowak will tell us about how he weaved his academic career in different countries and how his interest in sociology arose from his reading of Marx Weber.