Dr Andrew Clark

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

• Crescent House 201
• T: 0161 29 54109
• E: a.clark@salford.ac.uk
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Tuesday: 1.00-3.00pm

I joined the Sociology and Criminology Directorate at Salford in December 2008 after holding post-doctoral teaching and research posts at the University of St Andrews, The Open University, and the University of Leeds. I was made Senior Lecturer in 2012.

Much of my teaching is based around research methods, data analysis and advanced-level methodological development across undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I also contribute to undergraduate modules on kinship and visual sociology. 

At the heart of my work is a demonstrable commitment to inter- and trans-disciplinary research activity and the benefits this can bring to understanding real world problems and issues. 

Recent theoretically informed empirical research has addressed issues of dementia care; sustainable energy futures; perceptions of fire-risk; university leadership and academic enterprise; and youth and engagement.

While my research covers a variety of subjects and approaches it is focused on three strands:

1. Neighbourhoods, wellbeing, and urban change, building on longstanding interests in social networks, neighbourhoods and social exclusion.
2. Universities, participation and community, including the relationship between universities and their wider social and geographical environments and the role of universities in community engagement.
3. Methodological creativity and ways of producing collaborative knowledge, including participative and participatory methodologies, the development of visual methodologies, and debates about doing research ethically.

2010: PGCert: Higher Education Practice and Research (University of St Andrews)

2004: PhD (University of St Andrews)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Hazel, N. and Clark, A. (in press 2013): Negotiating doorstep access: Door-to-door survey researchers’ strategies to obtain participation. Forthcoming in International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Theory and Practice.

Clark, A. (2012): Visual ethics in a contemporary landscape. In Pink, S. (ed.): Advances in Visual Methodology. London: Sage.

Clark, A., Holland, C. and Ward, R. (2012): Authenticity and validity in participatory research.  In Philimore, J. and Goodson, L. (eds.): Community Research for Community Participation: from theory to method. Polity Press.

Powell, J. and Clark, A. (2012) Leadership for Improved Academic Enterprise. A Stimulus Paper for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. ISBN: 978-1-9066-27-31-7

Wiles, R., Clark, A. and Prosser, J. (2011): Visual Research Ethics at the Crossroads. In Margolis, E. and Pauwels, L. (eds.): The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods. Sage

Emmel, N. & Clark, A. (2011): Learning to Use Visual Methodologies in Our Research: A Dialogue Between Two Researchers, Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 12(1), Art. 36, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101360.

Clark, A.; Prosser, J. and Wiles, R. (2010): Ethical issues in image-based research, Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice 2 (1), pp 81-93

Bagnoli, A. and Clark, A. (2010): Focus groups with young people: a participatory approach to research planning, Journal of Youth Studies 13 (1), pp 101-119

Clark, A.; Holland, C.; Katz, J. and Peace, S. (2009): Learning to see: Lessons from a participatory observation research project.  International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Theory and Practice, 12 (4), pp 345-360

Clark, A. (2009): Experiences of moving through stigmatised neighbourhoods.  Population, Space and Place, 15 (6), pp 523-533

Clark, A. (2009): From neighbourhood to network: a review of the significance of neighbourhood in studies of social relations, Geography Compass, 3 (4) , pp. 1559-1578