Prof Bridget Byrne

Professor of Sociology

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ORCID: 0000-0003-3519-4709
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Biography

Bridget studied at Cambridge and Sussex universities and came to Manchester after working at the LSE and Goldsmiths in London.

Bridget's book White lives: the interplay of 'race', class and gender in everyday life (Routledge) was joint winner of the BSA Philip Abrams Award 2006.

In 2014 she published Making Citizens: public rituals and private journeys to citizenship (Palgrave)

Bridget has held a Leverhulme Fellowship on 'Citizenship ceremonies: narrations of nation?' 2010/2011 and an ESRC small grant on 'School choice and local place' (2009/10). She also had a British Academy Small Grant 'Citizenship ceremonies: an international comparison' (2010/2011).

Bridget is a member of the ESRC Centre - CoDE (Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and Inequality). She is currently writing a book on School Choice.

Further information

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Interview on Radio 4 Thinking Allowed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nvjhp

Areas of expertise

Areas of expertise

  • HM Sociology - Race, Gender, Class, National Identity, Qualitative methods

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Publications

Testing Times: The Place of the Citizenship Test in the UK Immigration Regime and New Citizens' Responses to it

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Rethinking Intersectionality and Whiteness at the borders of citizenship

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Making Citizens.: Public rituals and personal journals to citizenship.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

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Student theses

Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Societies: Narratives of Polish Migrants in Britain and Spain

UoM administered thesis: Phd

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