School of Social & Political Sciences

Philippa (Phil) Thomas is delighted to be joining the school in August as Research Associate for the ESRC-funded Distant Voices project (led by Professor Fergus McNeill, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research). Phil is currently preparing to submit her PhD in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths College, where her work is supported by the AHRC, and her supervisors are Professor Les Back and Dr. Michael Guggenheim. Her project critically intervenes in “common sense” representations of crime, via undertaking collaborative research with ex-prisoners, a police officer and a private investigator, out of which she has produced fiction and films. Her research interests include collaborative, inventive and arts based methods, criminology, poststructuralist philosophy – particularly the work of Gilles Deleuze, feminist and postcolonial theory and STS. Her short stories have been published by Ambit and Nyx, and she is happy to be moving to a city which has been home to some of her favourite writers (Liz Lochhead, James Kelman). Her first life was in dance and she has lectured in Cultural Studies at the London Contemporary Dance School among other places. Her website is https://crowdedmouth.wordpress.com/

First published: 6 June 2017