Bethan is a Hallsworth Research Fellow in Sociology and has been at Manchester since 2007. She holds degrees from the Universities of Leeds and Bradford and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester. Before joining academia, Bethan worked as an immigration lawyer in Bradford and as an international election observer for the OSCE.

Bethan’s research interests are in racism and ethnicity, youth, urban citizenship, devolution and nationalism. She is the author of the book, Talking race in young adulthood (Routledge, 2017). Her current research looks at how different forms of devolution contribute to and are affected by shifting narratives of nationalism and understandings of citizenship and carry the potential to shape new forms of inclusion and exclusion.

Bethan has worked on a number of public funded research projects and is currently a member of the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, the Manchester Urban Institute and Multilingual Manchester. She is a member of the emerging scholar forum at the Runnymede Trust and has been an ESRC funded visiting scholar at the Centre for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley.

Bethan's research interests are in racism and ethnicity, youth and young adulthood, urban citizenship, nationalism, ethnography and creative arts engagement.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Devolving race? Examining the impact of localism and devolution on ethnic minorities in Britain

The project looks at how different forms of devolution contribute to and are affected by shifting narratives of nationalism and understandings of citizenship and carry the potential to shape new forms of inclusion and exclusion. It is doing this through qualitative research, working with residents, organisations that represent ethnic minorities and members of local and regional government.

For more info: http://www.mui.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/devo-manc/

RECENT PROJECTS

The lived experience of race over time, Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE)

This project is based on an extensive range of interviews in Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and Newham. 

For more info: www.Ethnicity.ac.uk  

Conversations about radicalisation

Conversations about radicalisation is a collaboration between young people, school staff, interdisciplinary researchers, and creative artists, that focuses on developing an inclusive and open discussion about how schools approach extremism that speaks to, and is led by, young people. The outputs of this project, including narrative art, video, lyrics and posters, co-produced by the participants, will challenge current approaches.

For more information: http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/cccj/research/projects/policing-security-and-citizenship/conversations-about-radicalisation/