My research interests have always been strongly feminist. This has led to work on stepfamily life, lifelong learning and higher education and more recently with artisan entrepreneurs. I try to bring a strong conceptual frame to my work and I have a number of publications that have been concerned with social capital, equality, envy and pleasure. My work with artisan entrepreneurs is leading to several streams of analysis. Through the notion of ?Salivary Identities? this includes an exploration of the intra-actions between neuroscientific understandings of pleasure and the culture of jewellery designer making. Issues of distinction, disidentification and economic value are also of concern in further work I am developing.
My research interests have also always been focussed on methodological concerns. My most recent work here has been on feminist quantitative methodologies (see Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender (2010) Oxford, Routledge (Edited with Rachel Cohen). I have also published on dissemination of qualitative research. I have been particularly interested in what, and who, gets heard and why. Again, I bring a feminist and political lens to this work as I seek to promote an 'informed practice' in the field of dissemination. Such informed practice takes account of the emotional realm of dissemination, the ethics of representation; and the challenge of 'post' (postmodernism, postcolonialism, poststructuralism) epistemological thought. I also continue to work with my colleagues Loraine Blaxter and Malcolm Tight. We have just completed the fourth edition of the highly successful text How to Research (2010) Buckingham, Open University Press.
I welcome PhD and post-doctoral students with interests in feminist theory, gender and education and gender and work.
I graduated from the University of Warwick with a first class degree and PhD in Sociology. I currently serve as Head of Sociology and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences. I am founding co-chair of the Gender and Education Association and serve on the board of Gender, Work and Organisation.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Feminism Counts: Quantitative Research and Researching Gender, Funded by: N/A,
Project Start Date:
01/10/2008
Project End Date:
01/10/2012
All that Glitters: Researching Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, Funded by: N/A,
Project Start Date:
01/10/2007
Project End Date:
01/10/2012
RDF 11/12 DA07: FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH FORUM, Funded by: Research Development Fund,
Project Start Date:
01/08/2011
Project End Date:
31/07/2012
Professor Christina L Hughes,Dr Rachel Cohen
Dr Richard Lampard, (2011) 'The methodological impact of feminism: A troubling issue for Sociology?'
Sociology
45
(4), 570 - 586 (0038-0385)
Professor Christina L Hughes(2011) 'Pleasure, Change and Values in Doctoral Pedagogy'
Studies In Higher Education
36
(3), 621 - 636 (0307-5079)
Professor Christina L Hughes(2011) 'Salivary Identities: The Matter of Affect'
Subjectivity
4
(4), 413 - 433 (1755-6341)
Professor Christina L Hughes(2011) 'Gender, Craft Economies and the Creative Sector'
International Journal Of Cultural Policy
16
(3), 305 - 321 (1028-6632)
Blaxter, L., Hughes, C. and Tight, M.(2010)
How to research
(9780335238675) Maidenhead ; New York: Open University Press
