Dr. Emilie Whitaker

School of Health and Society

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Contact Details

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Current positions

Lecturer in Social Policy

Biography

Emilie is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Salford and holds an Honorary Lectureship in Sociology at Cardiff University. Emilie joined the School of Health & Society in November 2016.

Emilie is an ethnographer sociologist interested in care, welfare, emotion and futures. An interdisciplinarian of a deviant nature, Emilie’s interests transgress the social sciences and humanities.

Areas of research

Ethnography, Sociology of Emotion, Care (Logics and Practices of), Temporality, Qualitative Research Methods

Teaching

Emilie's teaching reflects her own research interests. The three modules she leads on at undergraduate level are concerned with the development of ideas and their impact on state-craft ('ideologies' level 5) , the practice of creative methodologies ('methods' level 5) , and the power of representation for policymaking ('families' level 6).

Teaching Interests

  • Critical approaches to welfare
  • Methods
  • History of ideas
  • Theoretical perspectives

Research Interests

Emilie is an ethnographer sociologist interested in care, welfare and futures. Her work frequently involves an exploration of time and emotion, particularly understandings, visions and experiences of futures and endings. She is also interested in methodological innovation in ethnographic practices, writing and representation.

 

Postgraduate Research

I am particularly interested in supervising ethnographic projects which centre upon care and welfare.

Qualifications and Memberships

Memberships

  • British Sociological Association
  • Social Policy Association