Imogen Tyler - 缅北轮奸

Professor Imogen Tyler FAcSS

Professor of Sociology

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Imogen Tyler (PhD, FAcSS) is Professor of Sociology at 缅北轮奸. In 2026–27 she is a CORE Professorial Fellow at t, University of Helsinki. Imogen is Vice-President (President-Elect) of the , becoming BSA President in 2027–28. In 2018 she was conferred as a Fellow of t, for whom she also serves as an elected Council Member and Trustee.

Imogen is internationally renowned for her contributions to social theory and the sociology of inequalities. Her research examines social and environmental harms and inequalities, and draws on historical and contemporary research to understand how people protest and resist injustice. Her work on stigma, social abjection, social (in)justice, activism and social movements, social class, poverty and welfare, race and racisms, borders and citizenship has had global reach. Her research is widely taught on university curricula and is highly cited: she has been included in every edition of the Stanford–Elsevier list of the world's top 2% most-cited scientists since it began in 2020. She has given 50+ keynote and public lectures, and her awards include a 缅北轮奸 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research (2014) and a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2015).

Imogen is best known for her monographs (2013) and (2020). Revolting Subjects was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing and the Philip Abrams Prize. She has published 50+ journal articles and book chapters, including the edited volumes (2018) and (2014), and field-defining articles such as 'Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times' (2015), 'Designed to Fail: A Biopolitics of British Citizenship' (2009), 'Against Abjection' (2009) and '"Chav Mum, Chav Scum": Class Disgust in Contemporary Britain' (2008). Recent publications include '' (2026), '' (2026) and '' (2026).

Imogen has previously been awarded research funding by the ESRC (2010, 2012), the Leverhulme Trust (2010, 2015, 2026), the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) (2009) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2022). She has secured UKRI funding for 10 doctoral scholarships (AHRC and ESRC), and has supervised 20+ PhD projects and 4 funded postdoctoral projects (Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme, and the Swedish and Finnish Research Councils). She is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and regularly reviews grant and fellowship applications for UK and European universities and institutes. She has served on several international advisory boards and currently sits on the advisory board of the European Research Council project 'Who Counts?', which re-examines the profile, drivers and depth of poverty across Europe (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Current research

Imogen's current research centres on , a large new project she is developing during her fellowship in Helsinki. Weaving together social and environmental history, the social sciences and the life sciences, Elemental Inequalities rethinks the socioenvironmental crisis of late capitalism through historic and contemporary class struggles for clean water, breathable air, food and land – from food and energy poverty to campaigns against hyperscale data centres. The project recovers a materialist socioenvironmental tradition, from Engels' 'social murder' and E. P. Thompson's histories of enclosure to Linebaugh's 'thanatocracy', which it brings into conversation with the "elemental turn" in wider social sciences and decolonial ecological thought.

This work builds on Imogen's connected project "Hard Times: Poverty and Protest in Britain", and on her ongoing research and engagement with clinicians, social and care workers, charities and activists working at the front line of the UK's cumulative welfare crisis.

Public sociology

Imogen has collaborated with many civil society, think tank, charitable, community and heritage organisations. Her work with Lancashire Museums Service on the 18th-century Black Lancastrians project (funded by Art Fund, Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Association of Independent Museums) was runner-up for the 2023 Independent Museums Association Decolonizing Award and featured as a GEM/Art Fund 'Reimagining Engagement' case study. Other recent engagement includes the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's 'Stigma Free Futures' project, the Poverty Truth Network and Lancaster Black History Group. She has co-produced publications, podcasts, videos and educational resources that make sociological research accessible to public and policy audiences, including (JRF, 2024);, a Key Stage 2 teaching resource adopted by the Morecambe Bay Curriculum (2024); podcast series; '', a Connected Sociologies video lecture (9k+ views); and the graphic essay (2018).

Teaching

Imogen previously convened the 2nd-year UG module Global Social Theory and the UG module Welfare States: Histories and Futures, and teaches across the UG and PGT sociology programmes.

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Research Keywords

Social and Economic Inequalities; Socioenvironmental Inequalities; Health Inequalities; Social Theory; Historical Sociology; Stigma (Power); Welfare and Poverty; Housing; Class Struggle; Working-Class Environmentalism; Race and Anti-Racism; Colonial Capitalist Enclosures; Rural Inequalities; Land, Resource and Asset Struggles; Water, Air, Food and Land Struggles; Commons and Commoning; Borders and Citizenship; Social and Health Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change; Waste Colonialism; Pollution; Social Movements; Historical and Genealogical Methods; Community-Aligned and Participatory Research Methods; Community Engagement; Scholar- and Art-Activism (including Heritage and Museums).

PhD and Postdoctoral Supervision

Imogen welcomes applications from MPhil, PhD and postdoctoral researchers working in any area of social and socioenvironmental inequalities (broadly defined). She particularly welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds who engage with communities and publics beyond academia to produce "actionable knowledge" in the service of more just and equitable futures.

Recent MPhil/PhD projects include Victoria Frausin's 'Waste Colonialism: Grounding Theory Using Participatory Methods in the North of England'; Daisy Barker's ESRC project 'The Covid-19 Pandemic, Citizens Advice, and Continual Crises: Living with the Collapse of the Political Economy of Social Reproduction'; and Dan Harrison's ESRC-CASE project 'Disabling Austerity: An Ethnographic Study of the Poverty Truth Movement in Morecambe Bay'.

Selected Publications

Tyler, I.E. 15/06/2018 In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 41, 10, p. 1783-1801. 19 p.
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Jensen, T., Tyler, I. 1/11/2015 In: Critical Social Policy. 35, 4, p. 470-491. 22 p.
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Tyler, I. 1/05/2015 In: The Sociological Review. 63, 2, p. 493–511. 19 p.
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Tyler, I. 11/01/2013 London : Zed Books. 253 p. ISBN: 9781848138513 . Electronic ISBN: 9781848138537.
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Marciniak, K., Tyler, I. 11/2014 New York : SUNY Press. 320 p. ISBN: 9781438453118. Electronic ISBN: 9781438453125.
Book

Tyler, I., Gill, N., Conlon, D., Oeppen, C. 07/2014 In: Race and Class. 56, 1, p. 3-21. 19 p.
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Tyler, I. 2013 In: Citizenship Studies. 17, 2, p. 211-226. 16 p.
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Tyler, I. 02/2010 In: Citizenship Studies. 14, 1, p. 61-74. 14 p.
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Tyler, I. 04/2009 In: Feminist Theory. 10, 1, p. 77-98. 22 p.
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Tyler, I. 03/2008 In: Feminist Media Studies. 8, 1, p. 17-34. 18 p.
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Tyler, I., Marciniak, K. 25/04/2013 In: Citizenship Studies. 17, 2, p. 143-156. 14 p.
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Tyler, I., Bennett, B. 08/2010 In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 13, 3, p. 375-393. 19 p.
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Tyler, I. 05/2006 In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 9, 2, p. 185-202. 18 p.
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Tyler, I. 2012 Exeter : Exeter University. 45 p.
Other report

Tyler, I. 01/2011 In: New femininities : postfeminism, neoliberalism and identity. Palgrave 344 p. ISBN: 9780230223349.
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Tyler, I. 2011 In: Reality Television and Class. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan p. 210-224. 15 p. ISBN: 9781844573981 .
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Tyler, I.E. 07/2018 In: The Sociological Review. 66, 4, p. 744-765. 22 p.
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Tyler, I.E. 10/08/2017
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McNicholas Smith, K.M., Tyler, I.E. 2017 In: Feminist Media Studies. 17, 3, p. 315-331. 17 p.
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Tyler, I.E. 21/11/2016
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Tyler, I.E. 14/09/2016 The Precariat, p. 24. 1 p.
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Tyler, I.E., Loyd, J. 1/12/2015 Open Democracy
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