Beverley skeggs biography

Life and career.
Beverley is one of the foremost feminist sociologists in the world, and brings to Lancaster a wealth of experience addressing the multi-dimensional nature of.
Turning her from aspirations of marriage and being a local nursery nurse into an academic and activist, with a career of over 40 years.

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Care, with Bev Skeggs

Hi, and welcome to Uncommon Sense from The Sociological Review, where we seize the taken-for-granted and see it afresh through a sociological lens. I'm Rosie Hancock in Sydney, Australia.

And I'm Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, Canada—recording here as the sun comes up, just as it goes down where you are Rosie.

Yeah, I guess you would have just gotten out of bed, and I'm pretty much ready to get into bed. So, now, I usually work on religion and activism, and Alexis here looks at young people and mental health, right, Alexis?

Yeah.

So, although those two things are pretty different, and although Alexis and I are in different sides of the world, we, along with the team at The Sociological Review, believe sociology is for everyone. It shouldn't be hidden in …

Hi, and welcome to Uncommon Sense from The Sociological Review, where we seize the taken-for-granted and see it afresh through a sociological lens. I'm Rosie Hancock in Sydney, Australia.

And I'm Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, Canada—recording here as the sun

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Bev Skeggs

Growing up in Middlesbrough in the 1970s as the North-East was being ravaged through purposeful disinvestment, set in motion a critical position on how we live but not in conditions of our own choosing. Taught by her father never to trust news, government statistics or the state and to always treat people as she would want to be treated, and by her mother to care for others whatever the circumstances and always look her best, she surprisingly ended up at University. Never an intention and a big disappointment for her mother.. It was sociology that did it, more specifically Marx and Engels, who explained more to the curious 16yr old than any of her other education could. It set her on a critical quest, turning her from aspirations of marriage and being a local nursery nurse into an academic and activist, with a career of over 40 years.

Always addressing the many sites of inequality by conducting research and teaching, and/or establishing spaces for others to do the campaigning, research, writing and teaching. She has been insistent on keeping cer

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Beverley Skeggs

Beverley Skeggs is a British sociologist, noted as one of the foremost feminist sociologists in the world.^[1] Currently, she works as a "Distinguished Professor" in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, developing a Center for Social Inequalities in the North West of England. She continues to run the "Economics of Care" theme at the International Inequalities centre at the London School of Economics (LSE) and is a visiting professor at Goldsmiths University.^[2] She has been the head of two of the UK's leading Sociology Departments, at the University of Manchester and Goldsmiths, as well as co-director of Lancaster's Women's Studies. In addition, she played a part in transforming Britain's oldest sociology journal, The Sociological Review, into an independent foundation devoted to opening up critical social science and supporting social scientists.

Life and career

Skeggs was born in Middlesbrough, a post-industrial town on the south bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire. She studied an undergraduate degree in Soc