| Position in department | MA Director, Director MA Sociological Research, Director MA Gender, Culture and Society |
| Staff position | Lecturer |
| E-mail | lmpett (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Telephone | 3047 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Fax | 3410 |
| Room | 6.322 |
| Biography | Lynne Pettinger returned to Essex, where she had completed her PhD in 2004 after a two year period as postdoctoral research fellow at City University, London. |
| Website | http://nowaytomakealiving.net |
| Research interests | Lynne researches the relationship between work and consumption, exploring how paid and unpaid work is directed at facilitating consumption, and also relies on consumption. She has explored this theme through studying retail sales assistants, musicians and men who pay for sex, exploring how workers in these rather different fields engage with consumer society. She edited (with Jane Parry, Rebecca Taylor and Miriam Glucksman) 'A New Sociology of Work' (Blackwells, 2005). She has published her ethnographic work in journals such as The Sociological Review, Gender Work and Organisation, Consumption, Markets and Culture and Qualitative research.
She is currently writing about routine, craft and creativity, photography and absence, and moral economies of men who pay for sex. With Ewen Speed, she is writing about interconnections of markets and moral discourses in the wire. With Becky Ellis, she is writing about ebay as a process of qualification, using the work of Michel Callon. |
| Teaching responsibilities | Teaching
She teaches an undergraduate module on the body, and postgraduate modules on research design, gender divisions (with Roisin Ryan-Flood and Michael Halewood) and dynamics of home and work (with Miriam Glucksmann).
Currently supervising:
Jane Brown Intergenerational comparision of women's food work
Jess Clark-Scott Chronic Illness, wellbeing and the lifecourse (With Heather Laurie, ISER)
Rosemarie Nyaranga Mali ya Uma? Scaling the wall: Kenya’s Street Children
Lindsay O'Neill Conflict over household technologies. (With Becky Ellis)
James Scott I'm not poor: social class in modern Britain.
Recently completed PhD Student
Andreas Pollman 'Berlin and London Headteachers' Attachment to Country and Europe: A Challenge to the Apparency of Cross-National Difference' (ESRC funded).
Andreas has just started working at City University, London
Interested in supervising:
Gender, work and consumption, customer service work, cultural production and sex work.
Ethnography, visual methodologies, internet research |