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Yr Athro Thomas Hall
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Theoretically informed, empirical and ethnographic research in the following fields: homelessness and $acirc; street$acirc; populations; spatial practices of urban care, repair and patrol; begging, benefits and gifts; youth transitions, biography and locality (including mixed methods work with young people); informal education and citizenship; devolved governance and the third (community) sector. Am also interested in the cultural sociology of urban and social exploration, (pedestrian) mobilities and mobile methods. These various interests converge on, and inform, a primary concern with the street-level experience and management of inequality in urban public space(s).
Current and Recent Research
My current research commitments include:
- Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods (WISERD), a programme of primary research, data integration and capacity building in Wales jointly funded by the ESRC and the Welsh Assembly Government. I have direct responsibility for a research strand within the WISERD programme looking at the development and evaluation of innovative qualitative methods.
- Recent work with the WISERD team overlaps with a longstanding research engagement in central Cardiff tracing the spatial practice of social care and (more recently) street cleaning services. This ethnographic study of urban public space has been conducted over a period of five years, and supported through a period of extended study leave.
Recently completed awards include:
- Locality, Biography and Youth in a Transforming Community . Funded by the ESRC, this project explored the links between locality, community and biography for young people in areas undergoing economic and social transformation. (This project was affiliated to the Cardiff node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact.)
Schedule 2010-11
For the archive schedule, please follow this link
2011
6th-8th April, 2011. British Sociological Association Annual Conference, London. $acirc; 60 Years of Sociology$acirc; . Paper: Urban circulations: outreach work, homelessness, and the city (with Rob Smith).
2010
7th-9th April, 2010. British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow. Paper: Tinkering in the City: The Accomplishment of the Outreach Encounter (with Rob Smith). Also $acirc; Meet the Editors$acirc; session as team member for the BSA lead journal Sociology.
4th-6th May, 2010. Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences in Europe (EUROQUAL), Final Conference, "International Perspectives on Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences".
5th-8th July, 2010. 4th Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Methods Festival, Oxford. Paper: Local knowledge: place, non-place and urban spatial practice (with Rob Smith).
11th-17th July, 2010. XVII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg. $acirc; Sociology on the Move$acirc; . Attended as editor of British Sociological Association lead journal, Sociology (with Amanda Coffey, Sally Power and Amanda Robinson). http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201569
17th-21st November, 2010. 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans. $acirc; Circulation$acirc; Paper: Local motion, local knowledge: research $acirc; on the move$acirc; with urban patrols (with Rob Smith). Also, paper: Circuits of city space: moving and meeting with the homeless (with Rob Smith).
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Smith, R., Ablitt, J., Williams, J. and Hall, T. 2023. The coining of convivial public space: Homelessness, outreach work, and interaction order. Urban Planning 8(4), pp. 42-51. (10.17645/up.v8i4.6457)
2018
- Hall, T. 2018. Homelessness and the city. In: Low, S. ed. The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 55-68.
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2018. Everyday territories: homelessness, outreach work and city space. British Journal of Sociology 69(2), pp. 372-390. (10.1111/1468-4446.12280)
2017
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Seeing the need: urban outreach as sensory walking. In: Bates, C. and Rhys-Taylor, A. eds. Walking Through Social Research. New York: Routledge, pp. 39-53., (10.4324/9781315561547-4)
2016
- Hall, T. 2016. Footwork: urban outreach and hidden lives. London: Pluto Press. (10.2307/j.ctt1jktrw6)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Mobilities at work: care, repair, movement and a fourfold typology. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 147-160. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1246897)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Pedestrian circulations: Urban ethnography, the mobilities paradigm and outreach work. Mobilities 11(4), pp. 498-508. (10.1080/17450101.2016.1211819)
- Wood, L. A., Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2016. Work on the move: editors' introduction to the special issue. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 139-146. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1250371)
2015
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Care and repair and the politics of urban kindness. Sociology 49(1), pp. 3-18. (10.1177/0038038514546662)
2014
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2014. Knowing the city: maps, mobility and urban outreach work. Qualitative Research 14(3), pp. 294-310. (10.1177/1468794112469623)
2013
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2013. Stop and Go: A Field Study of Pedestrian Practice, Immobility and Urban Outreach Work. Mobilities 8(2), pp. 272-292. (10.1080/17450101.2012.659470)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2013. No time out: mobility, rhythmicity and urban patrol in the twenty-four hour city. The Sociological Review 61(S1), pp. 89-108. (10.1111/1467-954X.12055)
2011
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Walking, welfare and the good city. Anthropology in Action 18(3), pp. 33-44. (10.3167/aia.2011.180304)
- Coffey, A. J. and Hall, T. A. eds. 2011. Researching young people. Fundamentals of Applied Research series. London: Sage.
2010
- Hall, T. A. 2010. Review essay: Shooting Billy Wordsworth [Book Review]. Cultural Sociology 4(2), pp. 291-304. (10.1177/1749975510368477)
- Hall, T. A. 2010. Urban outreach and the polyrhythmic city. In: Edensor, T. ed. Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 59-71.
- Hall, T. A., Coffey, A. J. and Lashua, B. 2010. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place. In: MacDonald, R., Shidrick, T. and Blackman, S. eds. Young people, class and place. Abingdon, UK: Routledge
2009
- Hall, T. A. 2009. Footwork: moving and knowing in local space(s). Qualitative Research 9(5), pp. 571-585. (10.1177/1468794109343626)
- Hall, T. A., Coffey, A. J. and Lashua, B. 2009. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place. Journal of Youth Studies 12(5), pp. 547-561. (10.1080/13676260903081665)
2008
- Hall, T. A., Lashua, B. and Coffey, A. J. 2008. Sound and the everyday in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry 14(6), pp. 1019-1040. (10.1177/1077800407312054)
- Hall, T. A. 2008. Hurt and the city: landscapes of urban violence. Social Anthropology 16(1), pp. 63-76. (10.1111/j.1469-8676.2008.00034.x)
2007
- Hall, T. A. and Coffey, A. J. 2007. Learning Selves and Citizenship: Gender and Youth Transitions. Journal of Social Policy 36(2), pp. 279-296. (10.1017/S0047279406000602)
2006
- Hall, T. A. 2006. Out of Work and House and Home: Contested Youth in an English Homeless Hostel. Ethnos 71(2), pp. 143-163. (10.1080/00141840600733660)
2005
- Hall, T. A. 2005. Not Miser, Not Monk, Begging, Benefits and the Free Gift. Sociological Research Online 10(4)
2003
- Hall, T. A. 2003. Better times than this: youth homelessness in Britain. Pluto Press.
2001
- Chaney, P., Hall, T. A. and Pithouse, A. J. eds. 2001. New governance - new democracy? Post-Devolution Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Articles
- Smith, R., Ablitt, J., Williams, J. and Hall, T. 2023. The coining of convivial public space: Homelessness, outreach work, and interaction order. Urban Planning 8(4), pp. 42-51. (10.17645/up.v8i4.6457)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2018. Everyday territories: homelessness, outreach work and city space. British Journal of Sociology 69(2), pp. 372-390. (10.1111/1468-4446.12280)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Mobilities at work: care, repair, movement and a fourfold typology. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 147-160. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1246897)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Pedestrian circulations: Urban ethnography, the mobilities paradigm and outreach work. Mobilities 11(4), pp. 498-508. (10.1080/17450101.2016.1211819)
- Wood, L. A., Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2016. Work on the move: editors' introduction to the special issue. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 139-146. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1250371)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Care and repair and the politics of urban kindness. Sociology 49(1), pp. 3-18. (10.1177/0038038514546662)
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2014. Knowing the city: maps, mobility and urban outreach work. Qualitative Research 14(3), pp. 294-310. (10.1177/1468794112469623)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2013. Stop and Go: A Field Study of Pedestrian Practice, Immobility and Urban Outreach Work. Mobilities 8(2), pp. 272-292. (10.1080/17450101.2012.659470)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2013. No time out: mobility, rhythmicity and urban patrol in the twenty-four hour city. The Sociological Review 61(S1), pp. 89-108. (10.1111/1467-954X.12055)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Walking, welfare and the good city. Anthropology in Action 18(3), pp. 33-44. (10.3167/aia.2011.180304)
- Hall, T. A. 2010. Review essay: Shooting Billy Wordsworth [Book Review]. Cultural Sociology 4(2), pp. 291-304. (10.1177/1749975510368477)
- Hall, T. A. 2009. Footwork: moving and knowing in local space(s). Qualitative Research 9(5), pp. 571-585. (10.1177/1468794109343626)
- Hall, T. A., Coffey, A. J. and Lashua, B. 2009. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place. Journal of Youth Studies 12(5), pp. 547-561. (10.1080/13676260903081665)
- Hall, T. A., Lashua, B. and Coffey, A. J. 2008. Sound and the everyday in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry 14(6), pp. 1019-1040. (10.1177/1077800407312054)
- Hall, T. A. 2008. Hurt and the city: landscapes of urban violence. Social Anthropology 16(1), pp. 63-76. (10.1111/j.1469-8676.2008.00034.x)
- Hall, T. A. and Coffey, A. J. 2007. Learning Selves and Citizenship: Gender and Youth Transitions. Journal of Social Policy 36(2), pp. 279-296. (10.1017/S0047279406000602)
- Hall, T. A. 2006. Out of Work and House and Home: Contested Youth in an English Homeless Hostel. Ethnos 71(2), pp. 143-163. (10.1080/00141840600733660)
- Hall, T. A. 2005. Not Miser, Not Monk, Begging, Benefits and the Free Gift. Sociological Research Online 10(4)
Book sections
- Hall, T. 2018. Homelessness and the city. In: Low, S. ed. The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 55-68.
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Seeing the need: urban outreach as sensory walking. In: Bates, C. and Rhys-Taylor, A. eds. Walking Through Social Research. New York: Routledge, pp. 39-53., (10.4324/9781315561547-4)
- Hall, T. A. 2010. Urban outreach and the polyrhythmic city. In: Edensor, T. ed. Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 59-71.
- Hall, T. A., Coffey, A. J. and Lashua, B. 2010. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place. In: MacDonald, R., Shidrick, T. and Blackman, S. eds. Young people, class and place. Abingdon, UK: Routledge
Books
- Hall, T. 2016. Footwork: urban outreach and hidden lives. London: Pluto Press. (10.2307/j.ctt1jktrw6)
- Coffey, A. J. and Hall, T. A. eds. 2011. Researching young people. Fundamentals of Applied Research series. London: Sage.
- Hall, T. A. 2003. Better times than this: youth homelessness in Britain. Pluto Press.
- Chaney, P., Hall, T. A. and Pithouse, A. J. eds. 2001. New governance - new democracy? Post-Devolution Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Ymchwil
Theoretically informed, empirical and ethnographic research in the following fields: homelessness and 'street' populations; spatial practices of urban care, repair and patrol; begging, benefits and gifts; youth transitions, biography and locality (including mixed methods work with young people); informal education and citizenship; devolved governance and the third (community) sector. Am also interested in the cultural sociology of urban and social exploration, (pedestrian) mobilities and mobile methods. These various interests converge on, and inform, a primary concern with the street-level experience and management of inequality in urban public space(s).
Current and Recent Research
My current research commitments include:
- Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods (WISERD), a programme of primary research, data integration and capacity building in Wales jointly funded by the ESRC and the Welsh Assembly Government. I have direct responsibility for a research strand within the WISERD programme looking at the development and evaluation of innovative qualitative methods.
- Recent work with the WISERD team overlaps with a longstanding research engagement in central Cardiff tracing the spatial practice of social care and (more recently) street cleaning services. This ethnographic study of urban public space has been conducted over a period of five years, and supported through a period of extended study leave.
Recently completed awards include:
- Locality, Biography and Youth in a Transforming Community. Funded by the ESRC, this project explored the links between locality, community and biography for young people in areas undergoing economic and social transformation. (This project was affiliated to the Cardiff node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact.)
Addysgu
I contribute to the School$acirc; s undergraduate programme at levels one, two and three, and across all the different schemes of study; but primarily as a lecturer in sociology and social policy. At present my teaching includes the following modules:
- Metropolis: Urban Life and Consumer Culture;
- Inequality and Division of Labour;
- Social Policy and Young People;
- Sociology of Culture.
I also contribute to taught postgraduate modules, including the MSc/Diploma in Social Science Research Methods, and to higher degree supervision.
School Responsibilities and Professional Contribution
I am a member of the SOCSI Management Group, the School$acirc; s key strategic committee. In addition, as co-ordinator for the undergraduate sociology programme and a member of the School curriculum review working group, I have taken on significant responsibility for the rationalisation, revision and development of the School$acirc; s teaching and undergraduate programmes over the last two years. This work continues, and I am currently serving on a working group tasked to develop a model for a new, general social science undergraduate degree scheme at Cardiff. I am also a member of the SOCSI newsletter editorial team.
I am a member of the University of Wales-wide forum, Anthropology Wales, and have served on the steering committee for this association. I am a member of the British Sociological Association, and have recently been invited to join the BSA Membership Task Group. I am also a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, and a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute
