Dr Sam Lawton
- Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
email:
Samuel.Lawton@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5195Biography
I research bisexuality from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociological, feminist and queer approaches. I'm currently project managing Bisexuality Today: Understanding Attitudes, Protective Factors, and Risk Factors for an Often Invisble Sexual Minority, an Independent Social Research Foundation Small Group Project Grant. I also write, edit and publish as part of the Interregnum collective.
In 2023, I completed my PhD in Sociology, which was an original project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and generously supported by a Scottish Graduate School of Social Science studentship. My thesis is entitled Bi+ Men and Their Intimate Partners: Sexual Identities, Intimate Relationships and Binegativity.
I teach introductory sociology and research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels here at the School of Social and Political Sciences.
Research interests
- The Sociology of Sexuality
- Bisexuality
- Asexuality
- Gender and Sexuality
- Masculinities
- Queer Theory
- Prejudice, Discrimination and Stigma
- Postmodernism and Metamodernism
- Anarchism
- Political Sociology
Research groups
Grants
ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups: Bisexuality Today: Understanding Attitudes, Protective Factors, and Risk Factors for an Often Invisible Sexual Minority. Independent Social Research Foundation. Record of grant.
ESRC Open Competition PhD Studentship funding: Sexual Prejudice Against Bisexual Men: Barriers to Initiating and Maintaining Relationships. 2017-2021 Record of Grant Grant Number: 1972004
Supervision
Please email greti-iulia.ivana@glasgow.ac.uk if you are looking for a PhD supervisor. I am willing to co-supervise projects that match my research interests. I cannot act as primary supervisor, as I am a junior member of staff.
I have supervised dissertation projects on the following degree programmes:
MSc Global Mental Health
MSc International Journalism
MSc Digital Sociology
MRes Equality and Human Rights
MA Sociology
Teaching
Modules that I Teach on:
Sociology 1A: Self & Society
Sociology 1B: Critical Research in Contemporary Societies
Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Postgraduate Researcher Research Design
Teaching Experience
Tutor - Nuffield Research Placements 2021 Glasgow Q-Step Centre, University of Glasgow.
Tutor - Intercultural Understanding and Emotional Resilience Microcredential Course 2021 (Online) at the University of Glasgow
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Honours-level) 2019-2021 at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.
Tutor (Cover) - Research Design (PGT) 2019 at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Honours-level) 2019-2020 at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.
Academic Assistant - Open University Psychology Summer School 2013-2014.
