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Citations
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4542
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767

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Beverley Skeggs is affiliated with Goldsmiths University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Finance, Gender Studies, and Education.

Skeggs's recent publications cover a range of topics related to social and cultural dynamics, gender, feminism, media, and community development. Notable papers include:

  • "Clap for carers? From care gratitude to care justice," 2020, European Journal of Cultural Studies
  • "Uncommon Sense: Care, with Bev Skeggs [Audio podcast episode]," 2022, The Sociological Review Magazine
  • "Algorithms for "hers": in whose interests?," 2020, Feminist Media Studies
  • "Revisiting Formations of Class and Gender, 25 years on: A conversation with Beverley Skeggs," 2025, The Sociological Review

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Simon Yuill
  • Helen Wood
  • Rosie Hancock
  • Alexis Hiêú Truong
  • Alice Bloch

Skeggs's work has been published in a variety of outlets, including:

  • European Journal of Cultural Studies
  • The Sociological Review Magazine
  • Feminist Media Studies
  • The Sociological Review

The main topics addressed within Skeggs's research include:

  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

Among the recognitions received, Skeggs has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable

    Beverley Skeggs

  • Class, Self, Culture

    Beverley Skeggs

  • Formations of class and gender

    Beverley Skeggs

  • Doing feminist research

    Helen Roberts

  • The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation

    Bev Skeggs

  • Context and Background: Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of class, gender and sexuality

    Beverley Skeggs

  • Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value

    Beverley Skeggs;Helen Wood

  • Cosmopolitan knowledge and the production and consumption of sexualized space: Manchester's gay village

    Jon Binnie;Beverley Skeggs

  • Imagining personhood differently: person value and autonomist working-class value practices

    Beverley Skeggs

  • Exchange, value and affect: Bourdieu and ‘the self’

    Beverley Skeggs

  • Situating the Production of Feminist Ethnography

    Bev Skeggs

  • Matter out of place: visibility and sexualities in leisure spaces

    Beverley Skeggs

  • Struggles for value: value practices, injustice, judgment, affect and the idea of class.

    Beverley Skeggs;Vik Loveday

  • The toilet paper - Femininity, class and mis-recognition

    Beverley Skeggs

  • Values beyond value? Is anything beyond the logic of capital?

    Bev Skeggs

  • The Moral Economy of Person Production: the Class Relations of Self-Performance on “Reality” Television

    Beverley Skeggs

  • 'Oh goodness, I am watching reality TV': how methods make class in audience research

    Bev Skeggs;Nancy Thumim;Helen Wood

  • Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety

    Leslie J. Moran;Beverley Skeggs;Paul Tyrer;Karen Corteen

  • Notes on Ethical Scenarios of Self on British Reality TV

    Helen Wood;Beverley Skeggs

  • Reality Television and Class

    Helen Wood;Beverley Skeggs

  • Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism

    Beverley Skeggs

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