Research output per year
Research output per year
Dr
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
Research activity per year
Gender, sexuality, feminist and queer theory
Sociology of emotions, feeling, and affect
Sociology of education, sociology of knowledge
Youth Studies, political participation, citizenship, social change
Ethnographic methods, participatory and creative methods
I joined the School of Education as Chancellor's Fellow in 2017. I have previously worked as a Lecturer in Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University, as a researcher in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon. My book Seriousness in Women's Roller Derby: Gender, Organisation, and Ambivalence (2015, Palgrave) was awarded the 2016 British Sociological Association Philip Abram's Memorial Prize for the best first sole authored book in sociology, and shortlisted for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport annual prize in 2016. My second book Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories is co-authored with Prof Yvette Taylor and was published in 2020.
I am interested in intersectional inequalities in higher education, among both students and academic workers, and particularly in how stratification and exclusion is reproduced and can be challenged. I research and publish in this area, for instance in investigations of imposter syndrome as a public feeling, queer feminist education, feminist collaborations across academic career stages, and widening participation programmes.
I teach on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Education and in Humanities and Social Science, including the BA in Primary Education, and the MSc Applied Gender Studies. I currently supervise PhDs and EdDs broadly investigating gender and sexuality in educational contexts, including young people's experiences of heteronormativity in schools, and trans educational inclusions.
I'm available to supervise undergraduate and postgraduate research projects on topics related to my interests, and especially those which use sociological theory and qualitative, ethnographic, participatory methods to investigate educational ineqaulities, particularly at the intersections of gender and sexuality.
I coordinate the university-wide Gender research theme and the BSA Gender Study Group.
I previously coordinated the ongoing Feminist Research Network Seminar Series (with Prof Yvette Taylor).
Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 1 Jul 2014
Editorial Board Member, Teaching in Higher Education (Journal)
2020 → …Coordinator, British Sociological Association Gender Study Group
Nov 2018 → …Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Breeze, Maddie (Recipient), Apr 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Maddie Breeze (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › Examination
Maddie Breeze (Guest editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Journal or guest editorship