Sociology

Research in Sociology at Keele is clustered around four main areas:

family, community and domestic life
consumerism, everyday life and contemporary culture
globalisation, risk and anxiety
urban spaces and cultures

Other important areas of research are in social theory, migration, health, ageing, gender and sexualities.

Communities, identities and mobilities

Academics in the cluster are interested in issues around migration, exile, and belonging; the anthropocene and sustainability; political economy and experiences of indebtedness; the politics of higher education; utopianism and social imaginaries; and conspiracy theory and sense-making in a rapidly changing world.

Keele Institute for Social Inclusion

Some of our researchers are also associated with Keele Institute for Social Inclusion. Keele Institute for Social Inclusion aims to draw together a vibrant community of partners across sectors to tackle the issues of inequality on a local, national and global scale. The Institute promotes and supports a wide range of interdisciplinary research, co-created with external partners, that seeks to identify, explain and overcome social, economic, political and cultural obstacles to egalitarian respect and social inclusion.