Biography

I became a member of staff in August 2012 though I have been situated in the department as an ESRC funded PhD student as well as an undergraduate tutor since 2009. Prior to then I studied Politics at the University of Manchester, graduating in 2002, before completing an MRes in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict at Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2008. In between and during these periods of studying I worked as an administrator and in market research.

Research Interests

My research interests are race, ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in the British context. My PhD research focuses on the extent to which Englishness and English identities are racialised and in particular on relationships between Englishness, whiteness and the nation state. I am hoping to complete my PhD in late 2012 after which time I am interested in doing further research into how purportedly post-racial national identities in Britain involve the construction and exclusion of the migrant ‘other’.

Publications

Journal articles

Charles Leddy-Owen (2012) "‘It's true, I'm English … I'm not lying’: essentialized and precarious English identities" has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies and is available online at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2012.705010

Teaching

Survey Research (level 2 undergraduate)

Migration and the Politics of Identity (level 2 undergraduate)

Cultures of Race and Racism (level 3 undergraduate)

Crime, Ethnicity and Racism (level 3 undergraduate)

Research and Evaluation in Crime and Criminal Justice (MSc)

Departmental Duties

Lecturer in Sociology. Lead for Departmental Seminar series.

More

Awarded Norman Price Prize for highest overall Masters mark in Birkbeck College’s School of Politics and Sociology for academic year 2007-2008.

Volunteer transcriber for Black Cultural Archive’s ‘Heart of the Race’ oral history project about the Black Women’s Movement in the UK, 2009-2010.

Sheffield Wednesday supporter.