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Dr Gareth Thomas
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Rwy'n Ddarllenydd yn Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol. Rwy'n gymdeithasegydd sydd â diddordeb mewn anabledd, iechyd a salwch, gofal, atgenhedlu, a stigma. Fy mhrif ffocws empirig yn ystod y blynyddoedd diwethaf yw profiadau pobl anabl a'u teuluoedd / cynghreiriaid, a chyfluniadau anabledd mewn gwahanol fannau (e.e., sgrinio cynenedigol; cyfryngau poblogaidd; y celfyddydau). Mae fy ngwaith wedi cael ei gefnogi gan yr Academi Brydeinig, Cyngor Ymchwil Economaidd a Chymdeithasol (ESRC), Ymchwil Iechyd a Gofal Cymru, a'r Sefydliad ar gyfer Cymdeithaseg Iechyd a Salwch, ymhlith sefydliadau eraill.
Mae fy ymchwil wedi cael ei gyhoeddi ar draws disgyblaethau mewn cyfnodolion gan gynnwys - ond heb fod yn gyfyngedig i - Sociology of Health and Illness, The Sociological Review, Sociology, Medical Humanities, The British Journal of Sociology, Sociological Research Online, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, Health and Place, Health Risk and Society, Current Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, daearyddiaeth ddiwylliannol, Journal of Consumer Culture, a Men and Masculinities.
Rwyf wedi cyhoeddi 3 llyfr: 1) Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic (2017); 2) Anabledd, Normalrwydd, a'r Bob Dydd (2018, gyda Dikaios Sakellariou); 3) Ail-raddnodi Stigma: Cymdeithasau Iechyd a Salwch (2025, gyda Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, ac Amy Chandler). Mae'r llyfr olaf hwn ar gael ar fynediad agored gyda Gwasg Prifysgol Bryste yma.
Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n Gyd-Olygydd y cyfnodolyn Sociology of Health and Illness gyda Janice McLaughlin. Rwy'n gyd-sylfaenydd a chyd-gynullydd Rhwydwaith Rhyngddisgyblaethol Caerdydd ar Anabledd (CIND) ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd.
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Thomas, G. H. and Henwood, K. 2026. Double unseeing or glimpses of recognition? Expert and community visions for hydrogen megaprojects. Geo: Geography and Environment 13 (2) e70101. (10.1002/geo2.70101)
- Thomas, G. 2026. Reconciling Goffman and disability studies: ‘Interactional’ and ‘structural’ stigma in the lives of parents of learning-disabled adults. Symbolic Interaction (10.1002/symb.70070)
- Thomas, G. 2026. The dark side of (later-life) leisure: The case of walking football. Leisure Sciences 48 (6), pp.1091-1107. (10.1080/01490400.2024.2373410)
- Thomas, G. 2026. Why walking football offers older people a different story about ageing. [Online].The Conversation: The Conversation Trust. (10.64628/ab.aer3e97fw)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.aer3e97fw.
- Thomas, G. M. 2026. Alive and kicking: physicality, pleasure, and pain in walking football. International Review for the Sociology of Sport (10.1177/10126902261455541)
- Thomas, G. M. 2026. Communicating risk through pregnancy apps. In: Scamell, M. , Coxon, K. and De Vries, R. eds. Risk and Uncertainty in Maternity Care: Putting Risk in Its Place. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.295-308. (10.1007/978-3-032-02731-3_14)
- Thomas, G. M. 2026. Re(dis)covering Goffman: Disability, ‘deference’ and ‘demeanour’ in a community café. The Sociological Review 74 (1), pp.176-193. (10.1177/00380261251316054)
2025
- Thomas, G. 2025. ‘Clarifying’, ‘assuming’, and ‘reducing’ stigma: a commentary on stigma in genetics. Journal of Community Genetics 16 , pp.889-891. (10.1007/s12687-024-00765-0)
- Thomas, G. M. 2025. ‘It’s lovely to have sense of belonging’: older men’s involvement in walking football. Leisure Studies 44 (6), pp.974-986. (10.1080/02614367.2024.2376825)
- Thomas, G. M. 2025. Funny business: Disability, humour, and performance in theatre and drag spaces. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 27 (1), pp.551-564. (10.16993/sjdr.1350)
- Thomas, G. M. 2025. ‘The boots will be on the coffin!’: multiple meanings of ageing for older people playing walking football. Ageing & Society 45 (7), pp.1269-1286. (10.1017/S0144686X24000254)
- Thomas, G. et al. 2025. Recalibrating stigma: Sociologies of health and illness. Bristol: Bristol University Press. (10.51952/9781529235838)
2024
- Thomas, G. M. 2024. 'We wouldn’t change him for the world, but we’d change the world for him’: Parents, disability, and the cultivation of a positive imaginary. Current Anthropology 65 (S26), pp.32-54. (10.1086/732175)
- Thomas, G. 2024. ‘Can you tell me what ethics means?’: Collaboration, voice, and consent in (inclusive) research with people with learning disabilities. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice 4 (3), pp.4-22. (10.13169/intljofdissocjus.4.3.0004)
- Thomas, G. and Thurnell-Read, T. 2024. Later-life masculinities: (Re)forming the gendered lives of older men. Men and Masculinities 27 (2), pp.190-209. (10.1177/1097184X241231917)
2023
- Thomas, G. 2023. Unfinished business: a reflection on leaving the field. In: Smith, R. and Delamont, S. eds. Leaving the Field: Methodological Insights from Ethnographic Exits. Manchester: Manchester University Press. , pp.74-85. (10.7765/9781526157669)
- Thomas, G. M. 2023. Disability and the sociology of health and illness. In: Petersen, A. ed. Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine. Edward Elgar Publishing. , pp.378-392. (10.4337/9781839104756.00033)
- Thomas, G. and White, L. 2023. Unmasked: COVID-19, face coverings, and navigating dis/abling spaces and cultures. Space and Culture 26 (3), pp.296-308. (10.1177/12063312231181521)
- McLaughlin, J. , Scambler, S. and Thomas, G. 2023. Introduction to Special Issue: New Dialogues Between Medical Sociology and Disability Studies. Sociology of Health and Illness 45 (6), pp.1133-1145. (10.1111/1467-9566.13652)
- Boardman, F. and Thomas, G. 2023. Expressivist objections to prenatal screening and testing: perceptions of people living with disability. Sociology of Health & Illness 45 (6), pp.1223-1241. (10.1111/1467-9566.13559)
2022
- Thomas, G. M. 2022. A legacy of silence: the inter-sections of medical sociology and disability studies. Medical Humanities 48 (1), pp.123-132. (10.1136/medhum-2021-012198)
2021
- Navon, D. and Thomas, G. 2021. Screening before we know: radical uncertainties in expanded prenatal genetics. OBM Genetics 5 (4) 12. (10.21926/obm.genet.2104140)
- Thomas, G. M. 2021. 'The media love the artificial versions of what’s going on': media (mis)representations of Down’s syndrome. British Journal of Sociology 72 (3), pp.693-706. (10.1111/1468-4446.12807)
- Thomas, G. M. 2021. Dis-mantling stigma: parenting disabled children in an age of ‘Neoliberal-Ableism’. The Sociological Review 69 (2), pp.451-467. (10.1177/0038026120963481)
- Thomas, G. M. et al. 2021. Testing times: the social life of non-invasive prenatal testing. Science Technology and Society 26 (1), pp.81-97. (10.1177/0971721820960262)
- Dimond, R. , Lewis, J. and Thomas, G. 2021. Editorial: Themed issue: Understanding the technical and social landscape of gene editing. New Genetics and Society 40 (4), pp.361-366. (10.1080/14636778.2021.2004032)
2020
- Thomas, G. 2020. Dennis, F., Injecting Bodies in More‐Than‐Human Worlds. London: Routledge. 2019. 248pp £120.00 (hbk) ISBN 978‐1138609556 [Book Review]. Sociology of Health and Illness 42 (7), pp.1765-1766. (10.1111/1467-9566.13168)
- Elliott, E. , Thomas, G. M. and Byrne, E. 2020. Stigma, class, and ‘respect’: Young people’s articulation and management of place in a post-industrial estate in south Wales. People, Place and Policy Online 14 (2), pp.157-152. (10.3351/ppp.2020.4953299286)
- Renold, E. et al. 2020. The making, mapping and mobilising in Merthyr project: young people, research and arts-activism in a post-industrial place. In: McDermont, M. et al., Imagining Regulation Differently: Co-Creating Regulation for Engagement. Bristol: Policy Press. , pp.127-144.
2018
- Thomas, G. 2018. The zero trimester: pre-pregnancy care and the politics of reproductive risk, by Miranda R. Waggoner [Book Review]. American Journal of Sociology 124 (3), pp.932-934.
- Thomas, G. M. et al. 2018. Light, connectivity, and place: young people living in a post-industrial town. cultural geographies 25 (4), pp.537-551. (10.1177/1474474018762811)
- Thomas, G. and Sakellariou, D. 2018. Introduction: Disability, normalcy and the everyday. In: Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday. Routledge
- Thomas, G. and Sakellariou, D. eds. 2018. Disability, normalcy, and the everyday. Routledge.
- Thomas, G. , Lupton, D. and Pedersen, S. 2018. ‘The appy for a happy pappy’: Expectant fatherhood and pregnancy apps. Journal of Gender Studies 27 (7), pp.759-770. (10.1080/09589236.2017.1301813)
2017
- Thomas, G. M. , Roberts, J. and Griffiths, F. E. 2017. Ultrasound as a technology of reassurance? How pregnant women and health care professionals articulate ultrasound reassurance and its limitations. Sociology of Health and Illness 39 (6), pp.893-907. (10.1111/1467-9566.12554)
- Latimer, J. and Thomas, G. 2017. Editorial: The politics of reproduction and parenting cultures: procreation, pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing. Sociology of Health and Illness 39 (6), pp.811-815. (10.1111/1467-9566.12603)
- Thomas, G. M. 2017. Picture perfect: ‘4D’ ultrasound and the commoditisation of the private prenatal clinic. Journal of Consumer Culture 17 (2), pp.359-377. (10.1177/1469540515602300)
- Thomas, G. 2017. Doing gender in a hospital setting: reflections of a male researcher. Sociological Research Online 22 (2), pp.1-14. (10.5153/sro.4307)
- Thomas, G. 2017. Down's Syndrome screening and reproductive politics: care, choice, and disability in the prenatal clinic. Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness London: Routledge.
- Thomas, G. 2017. Decision-making by expectant parents: NIPT, NIPD, and current methods of prenatal screening for Down’s Syndrome (Evidence Review). Project Report.[Online].Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Available at: http://nuffieldbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/Gareth-Thomas-evidence-review-decision-making-NIPT.pdf.
2016
- Gale, N. et al., 2016. Towards a sociology of risk work: a narrative review and synthesis. Sociology Compass 10 (11), pp.1046-1071. (10.1111/soc4.12416)
- Lupton, D. , Pedersen, S. and Thomas, G. 2016. Parenting and digital media: from the early web to contemporary digital society. Sociology Compass 10 (8), pp.730-743. 10.1111/soc4.12398.
- Thomas, G. M. 2016. An elephant in the consultation room? Configuring Down Syndrome in British antenatal care. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 30 (2), pp.238-258. (10.1111/maq.12222)
- Thomas, G. M. and Rothman, B. K. 2016. Keeping the backdoor to eugenics ajar?: Disability and the future of prenatal screening. AMA Journal of Ethics 18 (4), pp.406-415. (10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.04.stas1-1604)
- Thomas, G. M. 2016. ‘It’s not that bad’: stigma, health, and place in a post-industrial community. Health & Place 38 , pp.1-7. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.12.001)
- Sakellariou, D. and Thomas, G. 2016. Disability and everyday worlds. Presented at: 76th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology Vancouver, Canada 29 March- 2 April 2016.
- Thomas, G. M. and Lupton, D. 2016. Threats and thrills: pregnancy apps, risk, and consumption. Health, Risk & Society 17 (7-8), pp.495-509. (10.1080/13698575.2015.1127333)
2015
- Thomas, G. M. and Latimer, J. 2015. In/exclusion in the clinic: Down's syndrome, dysmorphology and the ethics of everyday medical work. Sociology 49 (5), pp.937-954. (10.1177/0038038515588470)
- Thomas, G. M. and Lupton, D. 2015. Playing pregnancy: the ludification and gamification of expectant motherhood in Smartphone apps. M/C Journal 18 (5)
- Thomas, G. M. 2015. Un/inhabitable worlds: the curious case of Down’s syndrome. Somatosphere 2015 (29 Jul)
2014
- Thomas, G. M. 2014. Prenatal screening for down’s syndrome: parent and healthcare practitioner experiences. Sociology Compass 8 (6), pp.837-850. (10.1111/soc4.12185)
- Thomas, G. M. 2014. Cooling the mother out: revisiting and revising Goffman's account. Symbolic Interaction 37 (2), pp.283-299. (10.1002/SYMB.91)
- Thomas, G. M. 2014. The everyday work of healthcare professionals: an ethnography of screening for down's syndrome in UK antenatal care. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
2013
- Thomas, G. M. 2013. The continuing value of Erving Goffman: you follow?. [Online].Cardiff: Cardiff Ethnography. Available at: https://cardiffethnography.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-continuing-value-of-erving-goffman.html.
- Thomas, G. M. and Banks, T. 2013. 'We aren't racing a fair race': Rawls, Sen, and the Paralympic Games. Sociological Research Online 18 (3) 14. (10.5153/sro.3123)
- Thomas, G. M. 2013. Fat chances? The obesity problem in Tamworth. [Online].Cost of Living Blog. Available at: http://www.cost-ofliving.net/fat-chances-the-obesity-problem-in-tamworth/.
2012
- Davies, S. , Thomas, G. M. and Rucinska, K. 2012. Review: The House of Beasts' Symposium: Enquiries into the human and the animal. Darwin Festival, Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Shrewsbury, 18th February 2012. Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies 4 (1), pp.136-143.
- Thomas, G. M. 2012. Beyond tagging, poking, and throwing sheep: Using Facebook in social research. Qualitative Researcher (14), pp.8-10.
- Thomas, G. M. 2012. Rethinking Disability: Bodies, Senses, and Things, by Michael Schillmeier [Book Review]. The Sociological Review 60 (3), pp.575-577. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02108.x)
Adrannau llyfrau
- Thomas, G. M. 2026. Communicating risk through pregnancy apps. In: Scamell, M. , Coxon, K. and De Vries, R. eds. Risk and Uncertainty in Maternity Care: Putting Risk in Its Place. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.295-308. (10.1007/978-3-032-02731-3_14)
- Thomas, G. 2023. Unfinished business: a reflection on leaving the field. In: Smith, R. and Delamont, S. eds. Leaving the Field: Methodological Insights from Ethnographic Exits. Manchester: Manchester University Press. , pp.74-85. (10.7765/9781526157669)
- Thomas, G. M. 2023. Disability and the sociology of health and illness. In: Petersen, A. ed. Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine. Edward Elgar Publishing. , pp.378-392. (10.4337/9781839104756.00033)
- Renold, E. et al. 2020. The making, mapping and mobilising in Merthyr project: young people, research and arts-activism in a post-industrial place. In: McDermont, M. et al., Imagining Regulation Differently: Co-Creating Regulation for Engagement. Bristol: Policy Press. , pp.127-144.
- Thomas, G. and Sakellariou, D. 2018. Introduction: Disability, normalcy and the everyday. In: Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday. Routledge
Cynadleddau
- Sakellariou, D. and Thomas, G. 2016. Disability and everyday worlds. Presented at: 76th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology Vancouver, Canada 29 March- 2 April 2016.
Erthyglau
- Thomas, G. H. and Henwood, K. 2026. Double unseeing or glimpses of recognition? Expert and community visions for hydrogen megaprojects. Geo: Geography and Environment 13 (2) e70101. (10.1002/geo2.70101)
- Thomas, G. 2026. Reconciling Goffman and disability studies: ‘Interactional’ and ‘structural’ stigma in the lives of parents of learning-disabled adults. Symbolic Interaction (10.1002/symb.70070)
- Thomas, G. 2026. The dark side of (later-life) leisure: The case of walking football. Leisure Sciences 48 (6), pp.1091-1107. (10.1080/01490400.2024.2373410)
- Thomas, G. M. 2026. Alive and kicking: physicality, pleasure, and pain in walking football. International Review for the Sociology of Sport (10.1177/10126902261455541)
- Thomas, G. M. 2026. Re(dis)covering Goffman: Disability, ‘deference’ and ‘demeanour’ in a community café. The Sociological Review 74 (1), pp.176-193. (10.1177/00380261251316054)
- Thomas, G. 2025. ‘Clarifying’, ‘assuming’, and ‘reducing’ stigma: a commentary on stigma in genetics. Journal of Community Genetics 16 , pp.889-891. (10.1007/s12687-024-00765-0)
- Thomas, G. M. 2025. ‘It’s lovely to have sense of belonging’: older men’s involvement in walking football. Leisure Studies 44 (6), pp.974-986. (10.1080/02614367.2024.2376825)
- Thomas, G. M. 2025. Funny business: Disability, humour, and performance in theatre and drag spaces. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 27 (1), pp.551-564. (10.16993/sjdr.1350)
- Thomas, G. M. 2025. ‘The boots will be on the coffin!’: multiple meanings of ageing for older people playing walking football. Ageing & Society 45 (7), pp.1269-1286. (10.1017/S0144686X24000254)
- Thomas, G. M. 2024. 'We wouldn’t change him for the world, but we’d change the world for him’: Parents, disability, and the cultivation of a positive imaginary. Current Anthropology 65 (S26), pp.32-54. (10.1086/732175)
- Thomas, G. 2024. ‘Can you tell me what ethics means?’: Collaboration, voice, and consent in (inclusive) research with people with learning disabilities. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice 4 (3), pp.4-22. (10.13169/intljofdissocjus.4.3.0004)
- Thomas, G. and Thurnell-Read, T. 2024. Later-life masculinities: (Re)forming the gendered lives of older men. Men and Masculinities 27 (2), pp.190-209. (10.1177/1097184X241231917)
- Thomas, G. and White, L. 2023. Unmasked: COVID-19, face coverings, and navigating dis/abling spaces and cultures. Space and Culture 26 (3), pp.296-308. (10.1177/12063312231181521)
- McLaughlin, J. , Scambler, S. and Thomas, G. 2023. Introduction to Special Issue: New Dialogues Between Medical Sociology and Disability Studies. Sociology of Health and Illness 45 (6), pp.1133-1145. (10.1111/1467-9566.13652)
- Boardman, F. and Thomas, G. 2023. Expressivist objections to prenatal screening and testing: perceptions of people living with disability. Sociology of Health & Illness 45 (6), pp.1223-1241. (10.1111/1467-9566.13559)
- Thomas, G. M. 2022. A legacy of silence: the inter-sections of medical sociology and disability studies. Medical Humanities 48 (1), pp.123-132. (10.1136/medhum-2021-012198)
- Navon, D. and Thomas, G. 2021. Screening before we know: radical uncertainties in expanded prenatal genetics. OBM Genetics 5 (4) 12. (10.21926/obm.genet.2104140)
- Thomas, G. M. 2021. 'The media love the artificial versions of what’s going on': media (mis)representations of Down’s syndrome. British Journal of Sociology 72 (3), pp.693-706. (10.1111/1468-4446.12807)
- Thomas, G. M. 2021. Dis-mantling stigma: parenting disabled children in an age of ‘Neoliberal-Ableism’. The Sociological Review 69 (2), pp.451-467. (10.1177/0038026120963481)
- Thomas, G. M. et al. 2021. Testing times: the social life of non-invasive prenatal testing. Science Technology and Society 26 (1), pp.81-97. (10.1177/0971721820960262)
- Dimond, R. , Lewis, J. and Thomas, G. 2021. Editorial: Themed issue: Understanding the technical and social landscape of gene editing. New Genetics and Society 40 (4), pp.361-366. (10.1080/14636778.2021.2004032)
- Thomas, G. 2020. Dennis, F., Injecting Bodies in More‐Than‐Human Worlds. London: Routledge. 2019. 248pp £120.00 (hbk) ISBN 978‐1138609556 [Book Review]. Sociology of Health and Illness 42 (7), pp.1765-1766. (10.1111/1467-9566.13168)
- Elliott, E. , Thomas, G. M. and Byrne, E. 2020. Stigma, class, and ‘respect’: Young people’s articulation and management of place in a post-industrial estate in south Wales. People, Place and Policy Online 14 (2), pp.157-152. (10.3351/ppp.2020.4953299286)
- Thomas, G. 2018. The zero trimester: pre-pregnancy care and the politics of reproductive risk, by Miranda R. Waggoner [Book Review]. American Journal of Sociology 124 (3), pp.932-934.
- Thomas, G. M. et al. 2018. Light, connectivity, and place: young people living in a post-industrial town. cultural geographies 25 (4), pp.537-551. (10.1177/1474474018762811)
- Thomas, G. , Lupton, D. and Pedersen, S. 2018. ‘The appy for a happy pappy’: Expectant fatherhood and pregnancy apps. Journal of Gender Studies 27 (7), pp.759-770. (10.1080/09589236.2017.1301813)
- Thomas, G. M. , Roberts, J. and Griffiths, F. E. 2017. Ultrasound as a technology of reassurance? How pregnant women and health care professionals articulate ultrasound reassurance and its limitations. Sociology of Health and Illness 39 (6), pp.893-907. (10.1111/1467-9566.12554)
- Latimer, J. and Thomas, G. 2017. Editorial: The politics of reproduction and parenting cultures: procreation, pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing. Sociology of Health and Illness 39 (6), pp.811-815. (10.1111/1467-9566.12603)
- Thomas, G. M. 2017. Picture perfect: ‘4D’ ultrasound and the commoditisation of the private prenatal clinic. Journal of Consumer Culture 17 (2), pp.359-377. (10.1177/1469540515602300)
- Thomas, G. 2017. Doing gender in a hospital setting: reflections of a male researcher. Sociological Research Online 22 (2), pp.1-14. (10.5153/sro.4307)
- Gale, N. et al., 2016. Towards a sociology of risk work: a narrative review and synthesis. Sociology Compass 10 (11), pp.1046-1071. (10.1111/soc4.12416)
- Lupton, D. , Pedersen, S. and Thomas, G. 2016. Parenting and digital media: from the early web to contemporary digital society. Sociology Compass 10 (8), pp.730-743. 10.1111/soc4.12398.
- Thomas, G. M. 2016. An elephant in the consultation room? Configuring Down Syndrome in British antenatal care. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 30 (2), pp.238-258. (10.1111/maq.12222)
- Thomas, G. M. and Rothman, B. K. 2016. Keeping the backdoor to eugenics ajar?: Disability and the future of prenatal screening. AMA Journal of Ethics 18 (4), pp.406-415. (10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.04.stas1-1604)
- Thomas, G. M. 2016. ‘It’s not that bad’: stigma, health, and place in a post-industrial community. Health & Place 38 , pp.1-7. (10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.12.001)
- Thomas, G. M. and Lupton, D. 2016. Threats and thrills: pregnancy apps, risk, and consumption. Health, Risk & Society 17 (7-8), pp.495-509. (10.1080/13698575.2015.1127333)
- Thomas, G. M. and Latimer, J. 2015. In/exclusion in the clinic: Down's syndrome, dysmorphology and the ethics of everyday medical work. Sociology 49 (5), pp.937-954. (10.1177/0038038515588470)
- Thomas, G. M. and Lupton, D. 2015. Playing pregnancy: the ludification and gamification of expectant motherhood in Smartphone apps. M/C Journal 18 (5)
- Thomas, G. M. 2015. Un/inhabitable worlds: the curious case of Down’s syndrome. Somatosphere 2015 (29 Jul)
- Thomas, G. M. 2014. Prenatal screening for down’s syndrome: parent and healthcare practitioner experiences. Sociology Compass 8 (6), pp.837-850. (10.1111/soc4.12185)
- Thomas, G. M. 2014. Cooling the mother out: revisiting and revising Goffman's account. Symbolic Interaction 37 (2), pp.283-299. (10.1002/SYMB.91)
- Thomas, G. M. and Banks, T. 2013. 'We aren't racing a fair race': Rawls, Sen, and the Paralympic Games. Sociological Research Online 18 (3) 14. (10.5153/sro.3123)
- Davies, S. , Thomas, G. M. and Rucinska, K. 2012. Review: The House of Beasts' Symposium: Enquiries into the human and the animal. Darwin Festival, Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Shrewsbury, 18th February 2012. Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies 4 (1), pp.136-143.
- Thomas, G. M. 2012. Beyond tagging, poking, and throwing sheep: Using Facebook in social research. Qualitative Researcher (14), pp.8-10.
- Thomas, G. M. 2012. Rethinking Disability: Bodies, Senses, and Things, by Michael Schillmeier [Book Review]. The Sociological Review 60 (3), pp.575-577. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02108.x)
Gosodiad
- Thomas, G. M. 2014. The everyday work of healthcare professionals: an ethnography of screening for down's syndrome in UK antenatal care. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Gwefannau
- Thomas, G. 2026. Why walking football offers older people a different story about ageing. [Online].The Conversation: The Conversation Trust. (10.64628/ab.aer3e97fw)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.aer3e97fw.
- Thomas, G. M. 2013. The continuing value of Erving Goffman: you follow?. [Online].Cardiff: Cardiff Ethnography. Available at: https://cardiffethnography.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-continuing-value-of-erving-goffman.html.
- Thomas, G. M. 2013. Fat chances? The obesity problem in Tamworth. [Online].Cost of Living Blog. Available at: http://www.cost-ofliving.net/fat-chances-the-obesity-problem-in-tamworth/.
Llyfrau
- Thomas, G. et al. 2025. Recalibrating stigma: Sociologies of health and illness. Bristol: Bristol University Press. (10.51952/9781529235838)
- Thomas, G. and Sakellariou, D. eds. 2018. Disability, normalcy, and the everyday. Routledge.
- Thomas, G. 2017. Down's Syndrome screening and reproductive politics: care, choice, and disability in the prenatal clinic. Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness London: Routledge.
Monograffau
- Thomas, G. 2017. Decision-making by expectant parents: NIPT, NIPD, and current methods of prenatal screening for Down’s Syndrome (Evidence Review). Project Report.[Online].Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Available at: http://nuffieldbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/Gareth-Thomas-evidence-review-decision-making-NIPT.pdf.
Ymchwil
Fy niddordebau ymchwil eang yw anabledd, iechyd a salwch, meddygaeth, atgenhedlu, a stigma. Rhwng Ionawr a Rhagfyr 2023, ymgymerais â Chymrodoriaeth Canol Gyrfa yr Academi Brydeinig (grant MCFSS22\220015) yn archwilio sut mae oedolion ag anableddau dysgu yn meithrin naratifau sy'n dathlu ac yn cydnabod eu gwerth a'u dynoliaeth. Rwyf hefyd wedi cwblhau astudiaeth yn ddiweddar ar gyfranogiad pobl hŷn mewn pêl-droed cerdded.
Addysgu
Yn ystod y blynyddoedd diwethaf, rwyf wedi ymgynnull ac addysgu ar y modiwlau 'Anghydraddoldebau Cyfoes', 'Cymdeithaseg Stigma', 'Theori Fyw', 'Cyflwyniad i Gymdeithaseg', 'Ymchwiliadau Cymdeithasegol', 'Iechyd, Meddygaeth a Chymdeithas', a 'Cysyniadau Uwch mewn Cymdeithaseg Gyfoes'. Rwyf hefyd wedi dysgu ar amryw o fodiwlau israddedig ac ôl-raddedig eraill gan gynnwys 'Dulliau Ymchwil Cymdeithasol', 'Ethnograffeg', 'Cymdeithas Ddigidol', a 'Cymuned, Iechyd Cynaliadwy, a Lles'. Bu hefyd yn dysgu am sawl blwyddyn yn Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd.
Ym mlwyddyn academaidd 2025-26, byddaf yn addysgu ar draws sawl modiwl israddedig ac ôl-raddedig, gan gynnwys: 'Ethnograffeg Uwch'; 'Comedi, Moderniaeth, a Theori Gymdeithasol'; 'Cyflwyniad i Gymdeithaseg'; 'Methodolegau Ansidedol'; 'Ymholiadau Cymdeithasegol', a; 'Cymdeithaseg Stigma'.
Rwy'n Gymrawd o'r Academi Addysg Uwch.
Bywgraffiad
Apwyntiadau blaenorol
- Darllenydd, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 2023-
- Uwch Ddarlithydd, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 2019-2023
- Darlithydd, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 2015-2019
- Cydymaith Ymchwil, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 2014-2015
- Ph.D. Cymdeithaseg, Prifysgol Caerdydd, 2010-2014
- M.Sc. Dulliau Ymchwil y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol (Rhagoriaeth), Prifysgol Caerdydd, 2009-2010
- Econ Sociology (Anrhydedd Dosbarth Cyntaf), Prifysgol Caerdydd, 2006-2009
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
*Cyfyngodd pandemig COVID-19 sgyrsiau gwahoddedig a chyflwyniadau cynadleddau, yn enwedig rhwng Mawrth 2020 a Rhagfyr 2022*
Sgyrsiau Gwahoddedig Dethol (2017-)
- Anthropoleg, gofal cynenedigol, a 'bydoedd anabledd'. Prifysgol y Gogledd-ddwyrain, 12 Mawrth 2025
- Anabledd, profion cynenedigol, a dychmygolion y dyfodol. Prifysgol Northeastern, 10 Mawrth 2025
- 'Allwch chi ddweud wrthyf beth mae moeseg yn ei olygu?': gwneud ymchwil (cynhwysol) gyda phobl ag anableddau dysgu. Grŵp Astudio Cymdeithaseg Iechyd Meddwl BSA (Ar-lein), 29 Ebrill 2024
- 'Bydd yr esgidiau ar yr arch!': chwaraeon a'r agenda 'heneiddio llwyddiannus'. Prifysgol Loughborough, 28 Chwefror 2024
- 'I'm a seed that's been kept in a dark hole for so long and now it's time for it to become a tree!': Cultivating counter narratives of disability through the arts. Prifysgol Leeds, 8 Rhagfyr 2023
- 'Allwch chi ddweud wrthyf beth mae moeseg yn ei olygu?': myfyrdodau ar wneud ymchwil gyda phobl ag anableddau dysgu. Prifysgol Fetropolitan Manceinion, 7 Rhagfyr 2023
- Astudiaethau anabledd beirniadol ac Erving Goffman: (an)bosibiliadau cydgyfeirio. iHuman, Prifysgol Sheffield, 6 Rhagfyr 2023
- 'Felly beth os oes gennym anabledd? Mae hynny'n ein gwneud ni'n fwy o hwyl i fod gyda ni!' Meithrin naratifau gwrth-ddysgu o anableddau dysgu drwy'r celfyddydau. Prifysgol Bryste, 16 Tachwedd 2023
- Sgrinio syndrom Down a gwleidyddiaeth atgenhedlu: gofal, dewis, anabledd yn y clinig cynenedigol. Seminar Grŵp BSA Swydd Efrog, Prifysgol Sheffield, 31 Ionawr 2019
- Sgrinio syndrom Down a gwleidyddiaeth atgenhedlu. Prifysgol Newcastle, 17 Ionawr 2019
- Sgrinio syndrom Down yn y DU. Prifysgol St Andrew's Osaka, Japan, 23 Medi 2018
- Sgrinio syndrom Down a gwleidyddiaeth atgenhedlu. Prifysgol Peking, Tsieina, 10 Tachwedd 2017
- Dychmygiadau o wahaniaeth: cyhoedd anabledd. Seminar Grŵp Ymchwil CareNet. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, 22 Mehefin 2017
- Olrhain y corff mamol (peryglus): beichiogrwydd mewn oes ddigidol. Seminar Grŵp Ymchwil CareNet. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, 22 Mehefin 2017
Cyflwyniadau Cynhadledd Dethol (2017-)
- 'Rydyn ni eisiau i'r byd wybod pwy ydym ni a beth allwn ni ei wneud': meithrin gwrth-straeon am anabledd dysgu drwy'r celfyddydau. Cynhadledd Astudiaethau Anabledd. Prifysgol Leeds, 4 Medi 2024
- Gwrywdod bywyd diweddarach: (ail)ffurfio bywydau rhywedd dynion hŷn. Teithiau Gwrywdod: Cyrff, Hunaniaethau, Lles a'r Cwrs Bywyd (Ar-lein), 22 Mawrth 2024
- Byd o mewn/gwahaniaeth: byw gydag anabledd dysgu. Cynhadledd Flynyddol Cymdeithaseg Feddygol BSA. Prifysgol Sussex, y DU, 15 Medi 2023
- 'The bless them brigade': parch, ymddygiad, ac anabledd mewn caffi cymunedol. Cyfarfod Cymdeithas yr UE ar gyfer Astudio Rhyngweithiaeth Symbolaidd 2023, Caerdydd, DU, 5 Gorffennaf 2023
- Byd o mewn/gwahaniaeth?: byw gydag anabledd dysgu yn y DU. Rhwydwaith Nordig ar Ymchwil Anabledd. Reykjavik, Gwlad yr Iâ, 11 Mai 2023
- Adeiladu 'cymuned syndrom Down': creu a dadwneud bydoedd 'anfyw' i rieni plant anabl. Cyfarfod Blynyddol y Gymdeithas Anthropoleg Gymhwysol. Norfolk, Vancouver, 22 Mawrth 2021
- Adeiladu 'cymuned syndrom Down': creu a dadwneud bydoedd 'anfyw' i rieni plant anabl. Byw Cronig 2021. Prifysgol Copenhagen, Denmarc, 5 Mawrth 2021
- 'We don't want TV...we want resources': unpacking (counter) configurations of disability in popular media. BSA Medical Sociology 51st Annual Conference. Prifysgol Efrog, 12 Medi 2019
- 'Bydoedd anabledd': gweithredu dychmygiadau cadarnhaol o 'wahaniaeth'. Cyfarfod Blynyddol y Gymdeithas Astudiaethau Cymdeithasol Gwyddoniaeth (4S 2019). Gwesty'r Sheraton, New Orleans, UDA, 6 Medi 2019
- Gwrth-gyfluniadau anabledd: bydoedd 'anfyw' pobl â syndrom Down. Cynhadledd Cymdeithas Gymdeithasol Ewrop 2019. Prifysgol Manceinion, 21 Awst 2019
- Yr eliffant yn yr ystafell ymgynghori: ffurfweddu anabledd mewn gofal cynenedigol. Gwyddoniaeth yn y Cyhoedd 2018. Prifysgol Caerdydd, 17 Rhagfyr 2018
- Golau, cysylltedd, a lle: rhyngweithiadau cyhoeddus mewn tref ôl-ddiwydiannol (tywyll). Cynhadledd Flynyddol y Gymdeithas ar gyfer Astudio Rhyngweithio Symbolaidd 2018. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 Awst 2018
- Gwneud bydoedd anfyw: meddygaeth atgenhedlu a chyhoeddus anabledd. Gwyddoniaeth yn gyhoeddus. Prifysgol Sheffield, 11 Gorffennaf 2017
- Lleoli syndrom Down: stigma, cyhoedd anabledd, a meddygaeth atgenhedlu. Cynhadledd Flynyddol BSA. Prifysgol Manceinion, 4 Ebrill 2017
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