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Charlotte Bates

Dr Charlotte Bates

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

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Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Charlotte's work explores the entanglements and connections between the body, everyday life and place, with a particular focus on belonging and our relationships with the worlds around us. She has researched and written about swimming and wellbeing, inclusive design and care, and illness and everyday life. Charlotte is interested in developing more 'artful and crafty' approaches to research, and works with live, sensory and mobile methods including video and walking. She is especially interested in interdisciplinary and creative collaborations.

Publication

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2015

2013

2011

Articles

Audio

Book sections

Books

Videos

Websites

Teaching

Charlotte teaches courses on qualitative, sensory and mobile methods, walking, writing and cities. She contributes to Introduction to Sociology and Social Research Methods and convenes Sociology on the Move. She also teaches a unit on Multisensory Methods and convenes the Qualitative Research Methods module on the Social Science Research Methods Masters. 

Biography

Charlotte previously worked at Goldsmiths, University of London as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sociology Department and at the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Geography and the Environment before joining Cardiff as a Lecturer in 2017. 

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Visual Sociology
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods
  • MA in Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health
  • BA in Philosophy

 

Supervisions

Current projects

  • Safi Bailey A year of immersion into the River Thames: Diving into the seasonal social worlds of river swimming (supervised with Kate Moles)

Past projects

  • Rhiannon Craft Details of an education: The mechanics of eco-social resilience amongst vehicle dwellers 2024 (supervised with Tom Hall)

Current supervision

Safi Bailey

Safi Bailey

Research student