Public Sociology As Educational Practice

Eurig Scandrett is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University, and an activist in University and College Union Scotland.

• Introduction ~ Eurig ScandrettSection 1 ~ PublicsProvocation I: Class, Gender and Identity: Axes of Structure and Difference in Subaltern Counter-Publics ~ Eurig ScandrettMad peoples’ history and identity: education in the construction of mad studies ~ Elaine Ballantyne, Kirsten Maclean, Shirley-anne Collie, Liz Deeming and Esther Fraser‘Seeing things differently’: gender justice and counter-hegemony in higher education ~ Lesley Orr and Nel WhitingDomestic abuse survivors: public sociology and the risks of speaking out ~ Julie YoungA Public Sociology for Post-industrial Fife ~ Paul GilfillanPublic Sociology and the invisibility of class ~ Eurig ScandrettDialogue I ~ Eurig Scandrett and Paul GilfillanSection 2 ~ KnowledgeProvocation II: ‘Really Useful’ public sociology knowledge ~ Eurig ScandrettCrossing the Quadrant: Policy Research and Public Sociology ~ Jan LawConvergences between public sociology, feminist theory and the praxis for refugee and asylum-seeking integration in Scotland ~ Laura LovinYoung people, alcohol, dialogical methods ~ Emma WoodKnowledge generated through participatory research with children ~ Maria Giatsi ClausenEnglish Last: Displaced Publics and Communicating Multilingually as Social Act and Art ~ Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé, Naa Densua Tordzro and Gameli TordzroThe Construction, Role And Influence Of ‘Public Knowledge’ Within Community Planning Partnerships ~ Marion EllisonDialogue II ~ Eurig Scandrett, Marion Ellison and Laura LovinSection 3 ~ PracticesProvocation III: Public Sociology Practices, Privatising Universities ~ Eurig ScandrettPrecarity as an existential phenomenon within a post-industrial labour market ~ Phil Mignot and Ricky GeeStudent – Public – Sociologist: On dialogue with our first public, and in widening access to higher education ~ Karl JohnsonExperts by experience: Art, identity and the sociological imagination ~ John Docherty-Hughes, Elaine Addington, David Bradley, Linda Brookhouse. Jenny Bunting, Lorna Cosh, John Dane, Robert Lindsay and Christine RaffaelliCommunity engagement: cultivating critical awareness ~ Jim Crowther and Mae ShawReflections on five years of critical service learning: is it critical or are we social justice dreamers? ~ Sharon Hutchings and Andrea Lyons LewisTrade unionism as collective education ~ Lena WånggrenDialogue III ~ Eurig Scandrett, Jim Crowther, Sharon Hutchings, Karl Johnson, Mae Shaw, Lena WånggrenConclusion ~ Eurig Scandrett