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Tim Edwards

Tim Edwards

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Role

I am currently Course Leader for the BA Sociology

My primary research areas, past and present, include: the sociology of identities and division (particularly work around gender and sexuality plus LGBTQ concerns), cultural and contemporary theory, and work on masculinities; the sociology of consumer culture and its effects; and linked to this I have on-going research interests and publications around fashion, particularly men’s fashion, and held an ESRC award looking at children’s fashion.  I’ve worked extensively with the fashion industry in a research capacity.

My current and on-going research is focused upon the study of internet dating and its effects particularly upon sexual minorities.

I conducted my PhD on the impact of AIDS and HIV, and published around issues to do with sexuality, then moved more into studies of men’s fashion and later consumption and more cultural studies, I completed a major work on masculinities and then fashion more broadly. This has taken place across four quite differing institutions in higher education.  I have also supervised students and taught internationally.

I am also trained in HE teaching methods and counselling.

Publications

Sole-authored books:

Men in the Mirror (Bloomsbury re-print, 2016 [orig pub 1997]), 150 pages.

Fashion in Focus: Concepts, Practices and Politics (Routledge, 2010), 184 pages.

Cultures of Masculinity (Routledge, 2006), 224 pages.

Contradictions of Consumption: Concepts, Practices and Politics In Consumer Society (Open University Press, 2000), 204 pages.

Erotics & Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism (Routledge, 1994), 192 pages

Edited books:

Cultural Theory (Sage, 2007), 284 pages.

Refereed Articles:

‘The Metrosexual’s New Clothes: Masculinity, the Body and the Suit’ in Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities, 2023 https://doi.org/10.3167/jbsm.2023.040105

‘Living Dolls? The Role of Clothing and Fashion in “Sexualization”’ in Sexualities, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1363460718757951

Medusa’s Stare: Celebrity, Subjectivity and Gender in Celebrity Studies, 4, 2, pp. 155-168 (T&F, 2013)

Course(s) I teach on