Dr Michael Bailey
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Email
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Location
5A.317, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Monday, 9am - 11am
Profile
Biography
Before coming to Essex, Michael taught in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He has also held visiting fellowships at Goldsmiths, University of London; the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), a University of Manchester-Open University collaboration; the London School of Economics and Political Science; Wolfson College and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. Media appearances: The Big Con(sumer), University Business, February 2012, pp.10-13. Thinking Allowed (with Laurie Taylor, Jeremy Seabrookand Ros Brunt), BBC Radio 4 (26 August 2009).
Qualifications
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BA (1998)
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MA (1999)
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PhD (2005)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Critical theory
Historical sociology
Working-class heritage
Sociology of the media and modern culture
Intellectual history of ethical socialism and cultural criticism
Governmentality studies
Sociology of religion
Cultural policy studies
Current research
Michael is currentlyworking on a monograph about public sociology.
And he was recently invited to give a series of visiting lectures on Globalisation, Anticapitalism and Associative Democracy at Peking University, Renmin University, East China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing Language and Culture University, Shanghai International Studies University and Beijing Normal University, in China.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Unlocking Your Academic Potential (SC099)
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The Sociological Imagination (SC111)
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Rethinking Modernity (SC301)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 10/10/2025
Degree subject: Ideology and Discourse Analysis
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 28/4/2025
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 26/5/2022
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 2/9/2021
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 3/2/2020
Degree subject: Sociological Research
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 5/8/2019
Degree subject: Human Rights
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 14/5/2018
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 16/2/2015
Publications
Journal articles (9)
Bailey, M., (2025). Down and Out in Birmingham and Leeds: Thinking the Lumpenproletariat in the Films of Penny Woolcock. Journal of British Cinema and Television. 22 (3), 311-341
Bailey, M., (2025). ‘The Workers’ Stately Home’: Wortley Hall in Post-War Britain. Labour History Review. 90 (2), 169-204
Bailey, M. and Tarvovskaya, E., (2024). Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Class Inequalities within the British Documentary Film Industry. Journal of British Cinema and Television. 21 (2), 123-152
Bailey, M., (2019). Back to the Future: The Uses of Television in the Digital Age. Journal of British Cinema and Television. 16 (2), 146-169
Bailey, M., (2019). Changing tides of industrial democracy: Red Clydeside and the UCS work-in as political heritage. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 25 (12), 1319-1338
Bailey, M., (2010). Media, religion and culture: An interview with Michael Wakelin. Journal of Media Practice. 11 (2), 185-189
Bailey, M., (2010). 'A broadcasting university': educated citizenship and civil prudence. Citizenship Studies. 14 (6), 681-695
Bailey, M., (2007). Broadcasting and the Problem of Enforced Leisure during the 1930s. Leisure Studies. 26 (4), 463-477
Bailey, M., (2007). "He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear": Christian Pedagogy and Religious Broadcasting During the Inter-War Period. Westminster Papers in Communications and Culture. 4 (1), 4-25
Books (5)
Bailey, M. and Freedman, D., (2011). The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance. Pluto Press. 9780745331911
Bailey, M. and Eagleton, M., (2011). Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique. Critical, Cultural and Communications Press. 9781905510375
Bailey, M., Clarke, B. and Walton, JK., (2011). Understanding Richard Hoggart: A Pedagogy of Hope. Wiley-Blackwell. 9781405193023
Bailey, M. and Redden, G., (2010). Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century. Ashgate. 9780754667865
Bailey, M., (2008). Narrating Media History. Routledge. 9780415419154
Book chapters (10)
Bailey, M., (2017). Women, Gender Relations and the 1984-85 Miners' Strike. In: FLAME STILL BURNS The Creative Power of Coal Mining. Editors: Williams, G., . 1898240094. 9781898240099
Bailey, M., (2014). Essex Sociology and Public Activism. In: Imaginations:Fifty Years of Essex Sociology. Editors: Plummer, K., . Wivenbooks Press. 978-0957085046
Bailey, M., (2012). A broadcasting university': educated citizenship and civil prudence. In: Governing Through Pedagogy Re-educating Citizens. Editors: Pykett, J., . Routledge. 681- 695. 9780415696210
Bailey, M. and Popple, S., (2011). The 1984/85 Miners' Strike: re-claiming cultural heritage. In: Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes. Editors: Smith, L., Shackel, P. and Campbell, G., . Routledge. 19- 33. 9780415618106
Bailey, M. and Redden, G., (2011). Editors' introduction religion as living culture. In: Mediating Faiths Religion and Socio Cultural Change in the Twenty First Century. 1- 21
Bailey, M., (2011). The Academic As Truth Teller. In: The Assault on Universities. Editors: Bailey, M. and Freedman, D., . Pluto Press
Bailey, M., (2009). Unfinished business: demythologising the battle of Orgreave. In: Shafted The Media, the Miner's Strike & the Aftermath. Editors: Williams, G., . 1898240051. 9781898240051
Bailey, M. and Petley, J., (2009). The Making of an Icon and how the British Press Tried to Destroy It. In: Shafted The Media, the Miner's Strike & the Aftermath. Editors: Williams, G., . 1898240051. 9781898240051
Bailey, M., (2008). The Angel in the Ether: Early Radio and the Constitution of the Household. In: Narrating Media History. Editors: Bailey, M., . Routledge. 9780415419154
Bailey, M., (2007). Rethinking Public Service Broadcasting: the Historical Limits to Publicness. In: Media and Public Spheres. Editors: Butsch, R., . Palgrave Macmillan. 96- 108. 9780230007215
Other (2)
Bailey, M., (2016).Back to the Future: The Uses of Television in the Digital Age,A Future for Public Service Television: Content and Platforms in a Digital World
Bailey, M., (2015).Changing Tides of Industrial Democracy: Tales from the Shipyard,James Dodds Exhibition Catalogue (Messum's/Studio Publications)
Contact
Academic support hours:
Monday, 9am - 11am