Laura Harvey
I am Policy and Research Manager at Alcohol Change UK.
I joined Alcohol Change UK in July 2023 as Policy and Research Officer. Before this, I worked as an academic at the University of Brighton, University of Surrey, Kings College London, Brunel University, the Open University and Richmond, the American International University.
My research interests include everyday inequalities, public health, youth cultures, sexualities, everyday intimacies, research with young people, the mediation of sexual knowledge, feminist methodologies and discourse analysis.
My work takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on sociology, gender studies, social psychology and cultural studies.
I am particularly interested in the development of innovative qualitative methods for the research of everyday experience.
I have co-authored three books: Class: A Graphic Guide (2022) with Sarah Leaney and Danny Noble: https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/class/
Barker, M. J., Gill, R. and Harvey, L. (2018) Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture.
Mendick, H., Allen, K., Harvey, L. and Ahmad, A. (2018) Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth: Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity. Bloomsbury.
I was awarded my PhD in February 2013. My doctoral thesis examined the negotiation and representation of condom-use in the UK.
I was Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton between 2016 - 2023.
I was a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey from 2014-16. Before that I worked as a Researcher on the ESRC-funded celebyouth project (www.celebyouth.org) from 2012-14, in addition to working as Teaching Fellow on the BA Contemporary Education, both at Brunel University, London.
From 2012-3 I worked as a Teaching Fellow on the MA Cultural and Creative Industries at King's College London.
From 2011-2 I taught undergraduate courses 'Beginning Social Research' and 'Gender and Culture' at Richmond, the American International University in London.
I worked on an NSPCC-funded research project with King’s College London, Institute of Education and the London School of Economics on young people and mobile technologies. I also conducted media analysis for the ESRC-funded 'Enduring Love?' project on couple relationships at the Open University.
I joined Alcohol Change UK in July 2023 as Policy and Research Officer. Before this, I worked as an academic at the University of Brighton, University of Surrey, Kings College London, Brunel University, the Open University and Richmond, the American International University.
My research interests include everyday inequalities, public health, youth cultures, sexualities, everyday intimacies, research with young people, the mediation of sexual knowledge, feminist methodologies and discourse analysis.
My work takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on sociology, gender studies, social psychology and cultural studies.
I am particularly interested in the development of innovative qualitative methods for the research of everyday experience.
I have co-authored three books: Class: A Graphic Guide (2022) with Sarah Leaney and Danny Noble: https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/class/
Barker, M. J., Gill, R. and Harvey, L. (2018) Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture.
Mendick, H., Allen, K., Harvey, L. and Ahmad, A. (2018) Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth: Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity. Bloomsbury.
I was awarded my PhD in February 2013. My doctoral thesis examined the negotiation and representation of condom-use in the UK.
I was Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton between 2016 - 2023.
I was a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey from 2014-16. Before that I worked as a Researcher on the ESRC-funded celebyouth project (www.celebyouth.org) from 2012-14, in addition to working as Teaching Fellow on the BA Contemporary Education, both at Brunel University, London.
From 2012-3 I worked as a Teaching Fellow on the MA Cultural and Creative Industries at King's College London.
From 2011-2 I taught undergraduate courses 'Beginning Social Research' and 'Gender and Culture' at Richmond, the American International University in London.
I worked on an NSPCC-funded research project with King’s College London, Institute of Education and the London School of Economics on young people and mobile technologies. I also conducted media analysis for the ESRC-funded 'Enduring Love?' project on couple relationships at the Open University.
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focuses mostly on girls’ bodies and ‘breasts’. Drawing on empirical findings from
research with 13- and 15-year olds in two London schools, we ask: How are girls’ and
boys’ mediated bodies and body parts constructed, negotiated and made sense of in the
teen peer group? Howare images of girls’ breasts surveilled and owned by others? In what
ways can images of girls’ bodies be used to sexually shame them? How do images of
‘boobs’ work differently than those of ‘six-packs’ and ‘pecs’? When and how is digital
proof of sexual activity shamed or rewarded? Our analysis explores the affective
dimensions of digital affordances and how relative gendered value is generated through
socialmedia images and practices.Wedemonstrate how our qualitative research approach
facilitates exploration of the online and offline relational,material embodied performance
of negotiating gender and sexuality in teen’s digitally mediated peer cultures.
focuses mostly on girls’ bodies and ‘breasts’. Drawing on empirical findings from
research with 13- and 15-year olds in two London schools, we ask: How are girls’ and
boys’ mediated bodies and body parts constructed, negotiated and made sense of in the
teen peer group? Howare images of girls’ breasts surveilled and owned by others? In what
ways can images of girls’ bodies be used to sexually shame them? How do images of
‘boobs’ work differently than those of ‘six-packs’ and ‘pecs’? When and how is digital
proof of sexual activity shamed or rewarded? Our analysis explores the affective
dimensions of digital affordances and how relative gendered value is generated through
socialmedia images and practices.Wedemonstrate how our qualitative research approach
facilitates exploration of the online and offline relational,material embodied performance
of negotiating gender and sexuality in teen’s digitally mediated peer cultures.
aged 14–17 across six schools, we show that ‘hard work’ is valued by young
people in England. We argue that we should not simply celebrate this investment
in hard work. While it opens up successful subjectivities to previously excluded
groups, it reproduces neoliberal meritocratic discourses and class and gender
distinctions.
about ‘sexting’ need to be understood as part of wider social practices of identity formation that work in relation to local norms of gender, race and class and wider popular cultural representations of ideal masculinities (e.g. pop music, advertising). We examine these practices in our empirical data,
which explores young people’s negotiation of digital sexual cultures and new economies of self-representation on social networking platforms. While the young people in our study did not use the term ‘sexting’, our research found a range of different communication practices that could fall under this
umbrella term (see Ringrose et al., 2012). In this chapter we examine the production, circulation, tagging and commenting upon images via Blackberry Messenger (BBM) and Facebook by working with and building on Paechter’s (2010) notion of culturally specific ideals of masculinity(ies), Skegg’s (2001,
2004) analysis of value and recognition, and Butler’s (1993) framework on performativity. Drawing these tools together we explore how teen boys develop practices of sexualized, raced and classed recognition through performances of masculinities via digital display and commenting online.