Research output per year
Research output per year
I currently supervise the following PhD students:
Recently completed PhD student projects include:
Prizes: 2015 University Teaching Excellence Award
Gemma Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, where she has worked since 2007. Her research expertise is in Social Movements and Protest, and critical social theory (esp. Habermas). She has researched a variety of historical and contemporary social movements, from the labour movement to the Suffragette Movement. Gemma is interested in the way in which interpersonal social networks shape participation in activism, particularly high risk forms of activism on the part of women. She has pioneered mixed method social network analysis techniques for the study of social movements, alternative lifestyles, and historical networks. She co-leads the research group movements@manchester and is a member of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, and the Morgan Centre for the Study of Everyday Lives. Key publications include Social Movements and Protest (Cambridge, 2014), Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets (Sage, 2015), and Shared Housing, Shared Lives (Routledge, 2018).
Current Research:
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Doctor of Philosophy
Award Date: 5 Dec 2007
Master of Social Science
Award Date: 30 Sep 2003
Bachelor of Social Science
Award Date: 30 Jun 2002
Editor, Social Movement Studies
Editorial Team, Transforming Capitalism Book Series (Rowman and Littlefield)
Editorial Advisory Board, Acta Sociologica
Editorial Advisory Board, Manchester University Press
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Scott, P., Edwards, G., Deane-Drummond, C. & Malcolm, F.
1/10/22 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
Brown, M., Olsen, W. K., Wathan, J., Carter, J., Thomson, S., Purdam, K., O'Shea, S., Heath, S., Rhodes, J., Edwards, G., Purewal, N., Turnbull, N., Ford, R. & Gains, F.
Project: Research