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Dr Gareth Thomas
Darllenydd
Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol
- ThomasG23@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 70945
- Adeilad Morgannwg, Ystafell 2.35, Rhodfa’r Brenin Edward VII, Caerdydd, CF10 3WA
- Sylwebydd y cyfryngau
Trosolwyg
Rwy'n ddarllenydd yn yr Ysgol Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol. Rwy'n gymdeithasegydd sydd â diddordeb mewn anabledd, meddygaeth, iechyd / salwch, ac atgenhedlu. Roedd fy PhD yn ethnograffeg sgrinio ar gyfer syndrom Down mewn dau glinig cynenedigol yn y DU. Mae'r ymchwil hon yn sail i'm monograff cyntaf Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic (2017). Rwyf hefyd wedi cyd-ysgrifennu, gyda Dikaios Sakellariou, y casgliad golygedig Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday (2018, gweler yma).
Rwy'n Olygydd Cyswllt y cyfnodolyn New Genetics and Society, yn aelod o fwrdd golygyddol y cyfnodolyn Sociology of Health and Illness, ac yn gyd-sylfaenydd a chyd-gynullydd y Grŵp Ymchwil Meddygaeth, Gwyddoniaeth a Diwylliant (MeSC) a Rhwydwaith Rhyngddisgyblaethol Caerdydd ar Anabledd (CIND) ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- 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. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13652)
- 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)
- 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. 2023. Understanding disability in the sociology of health and illness. In: Petersen, A. ed. The Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine. Edward Elgar Publishing
- 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)
2022
- Thomas, G. 2022. '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
- 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), article number: 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., Rothman, B. K., Strange, H. and Latimer, J. 2021. Testing times: the social life of non-invasive prenatal testing. Science Technology and Society 26(1), pp. 81-97. (10.1177/0971721820960262)
- 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)
- 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., Ivinson, G., Thomas, G. and Elliott, E. 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. eds. 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., Elliott, E., Exley, E., Ivinson, G. and Renold, E. 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: , . ed. 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., Thomas, G., Thwaites, R., Greenfield, S. and Brown, P. 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., article number: 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)
- 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.
2015
- 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. 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. 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 Ethnography. Available at: http://cardiffethnography.blogspot.co.uk/
- 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), article number: 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
- 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)
- Thomas, G. M. 2012. Beyond tagging, poking, and throwing sheep: Using Facebook in social research. Qualitative Researcher(14), pp. 8-10.
- 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.
Articles
- 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. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13652)
- 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)
- 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. 2022. '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
- 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), article number: 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., Rothman, B. K., Strange, H. and Latimer, J. 2021. Testing times: the social life of non-invasive prenatal testing. Science Technology and Society 26(1), pp. 81-97. (10.1177/0971721820960262)
- 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)
- 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., Elliott, E., Exley, E., Ivinson, G. and Renold, E. 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., Thomas, G., Thwaites, R., Greenfield, S. and Brown, P. 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., article number: 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 Lupton, D. 2015. Playing pregnancy: the ludification and gamification of expectant motherhood in Smartphone apps. M/C Journal 18(5)
- 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. 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), article number: 14. (10.5153/sro.3123)
- 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)
- Thomas, G. M. 2012. Beyond tagging, poking, and throwing sheep: Using Facebook in social research. Qualitative Researcher(14), pp. 8-10.
- 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.
Book sections
- Thomas, G. 2023. Understanding disability in the sociology of health and illness. In: Petersen, A. ed. The Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine. Edward Elgar Publishing
- 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)
- Renold, E., Ivinson, G., Thomas, G. and Elliott, E. 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. eds. 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: , . ed. Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday. Routledge
Books
- 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.
Conferences
- 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.
Monographs
- 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
Thesis
- 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.
Websites
- Thomas, G. M. 2013. The continuing value of Erving Goffman: you follow?. [Online]. Cardiff Ethnography. Available at: http://cardiffethnography.blogspot.co.uk/
- 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/
Ymchwil
Before my lectureship, I was employed as a Research Associate on the ESRC-funded 'Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement' project (Feb 2014-May 2015). This involved working collaboratively with academics, artists, and community organisers/members to map young peoples' experiences of health and wellbeing, regulation, and place. In June 2015, I was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Canberra where I carried out a study with Professor Deborah Lupton on pregnancy and parenting 'apps'. I am in the process of working on a grant application to carry out a qualitative study on patients' and professionals' experiences of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT).
Addysgu
I currently teach in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences (SOCSI) on the undergraduate module 'Power, Culture, and Identity' (SI0164). I also teach in the Cardiff School of Medicine with Jamie Lewis on the social study of medicine.
Bywgraffiad
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