Dale Southerton

Professor of Sociology at Alliance Manchester Business School

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  • Alliance Manchester Business School

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Biography

Alliance Manchester Business School

Biography

My intellectual interests have always spanned the social sciences and, having completed my joint honours in geography and sociology, I found myself at Lancaster University and in receipt of an ESRC Studentship to do my PhD. My doctoral work explored how consumption mediates social relations in a New Town, examining senses of belonging, processes of identity formation and the relevance of class in contemporary society.

 

In 2000 I joined the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), which allowed for my return to inter-disciplinary work. During my time at CRIC I conducted several projects, which focused on: the changing temporal organization of consumption, with particular attention to the challenges of coordinating social practices and networks within daily life; the material culture and spatial ordering of homes; and, an exploration of trajectories of practices using time-diary data across 5 countries and over 25 years.

 

Currently I am Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) principally funded by Tesco plc, and of the Sustainable Practices Research Group (SPRG) funded by ESRC, DEFRA & The Scottish Government. I also edited the three volume ‘Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture’ (2011), which remains the largest and most ambitious inter-disciplinary collection in this field of study to date. My work is regularly selected for re-print in compendia of critical contributions to understandings of consumption, and in 2012 I was selected to contribute to the American Sociological Association’s Climate Change Task Force on the subject of consumption. I have sat on a number of advisory boards and strategy panels for UK Government Departments and National Research Councils, and was an editorial board member on the journal ''Sociology'' (2006-9).

Further information

I am available to discuss with the media any aspects of my research, especially in relation to consumption, consumer culture, time, sustainability, and socio-cultural change. Previous media experiences includes 6 national television interviews/features, 18 radio interviews, and 11 UK newspaper article coverage.

For more information visit Dale''s Morgan Centre webpages.

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