Two recent School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) postgraduate research students have achieved publishing success.
Dara Blumenthal’s thesis is now appearing as a monograph this summer with Duke University Press. Entitled ‘Little Vast Rooms of Undoing: Exploring Identity and Embodiment Through Public Toilet Spaces’, Dara’s study is a theoretically driven ethnography of the relationship between space, embodiment and identity.
Tanya Bunsell, now a university lecturer in the sociology of sport, also had her Kent thesis published as a monograph. ‘Strong and Hard Women: An Ethnography of Female Bodybuilding’ was published in the Routledge Advances in Ethnography series and has just been shortlisted for the first BBC/British Sociological Association ‘Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Prize (winner to be announced at the current BSA Annual Conference in Leeds).
These are two of the many publishing and award successes enjoyed by SSPSSR PhD students.