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Katherine Smith

Katherine Smith

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-7732

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Biography

Katherine Smith received her doctorate from the University of Wales and went onto a postdoc research fellowship in the Digital World Research Centre at the University of Surrey. Following her research at Surrey, she began lecturing at the University of Manchester. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in the North of England - in North Manchester for her doctoral research, and Preston, Lancashire as part of her postdoc research. Her research interests include fairness and equality, welfare reform, poverty, social policy, class, Englishness, political correctness and humour. She is author of Fairness, Class and Belonging in Contemporary England (2012, Palgrave Macmillan), co-editor of Extraordinary Encounters: The Ethnographic Interview and Authenticity ( in press, Berghahn) and her forthcoming book Living with Poverty and Dependence (Anthem Press).

Overview

Katherine welcomes expressions of interest in doctoral supervision from students who are interested in themes centred around issues of poverty, dependence, welfare policy, social class, social care, responsibility and ethnography in/of British social and cultural life. 

 

 

Areas of expertise

  • H Social Sciences (General)
  • Anthropology of Britain, fairness, class, belonging, policy, welfare, poverty, ethnographic fieldwork methods
  • Poverty
  • Policy
  • Welfare
  • Fairness
  • (In)Equality
  • Social Class

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

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):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  6. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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