Professor Imogen Tyler FAcSS
Professor of SociologyResearch Interests
Social Inequalities; Social Theory; Social Abjection; Stigma Power; Race and Anti-Racism; Borders and Citizenship; Historical and Genealogical Methods and Approaches; Community Engagement.
External Roles
2019 - Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
2022 - Consultant 'Facing the Past' project, Lancashire County Council Museum Service, Association of Independent Museums (AIM) New Stories New Audiences funding.
2021- Lancaster City Council and Lancaster University INSIGHTS HUB
2020- Board Member, Lancaster Black History Community Group
2019- Trustee (elected), National Poverty Truth Network (UK Charity)
2018-2020 Civic Commissioner, Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission
Selected Publications
The hieroglyphics of the border: racial stigma in neoliberal Europe
Tyler, I.E. 15/06/2018 In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 41, 10, p. 1783-1801. 19 p.
Journal article
Benefits broods: the cultural and political crafting of anti-welfare commonsense
Jensen, T., Tyler, I. 1/11/2015 In: Critical Social Policy. 35, 4, p. 470-491. 22 p.
Journal article
Classificatory struggles: class, culture and inequality in neoliberal times
Tyler, I. 1/05/2015 In: The Sociological Review. 63, 2, p. 493–511. 19 p.
Journal article
Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
Tyler, I. 11/01/2013 London : Zed Books. 253 p. ISBN: 9781848138513 .
Book
Immigrant protest: politics, aesthetics, and everyday dissent
Marciniak, K., Tyler, I. 11/2014 New York : SUNY Press. 320 p. ISBN: 9781438453118. Electronic ISBN: 9781438453125.
Book
The business of child detention: charitable co-option, migrant advocacy and activist outrage
Tyler, I., Gill, N., Conlon, D., Oeppen, C. 07/2014 In: Race and Class. 56, 1, p. 3-21. 19 p.
Journal article
Naked protest: the maternal politics of citizenship and revolt
Tyler, I. 25/04/2013 In: Citizenship Studies. 17, 2, p. 211-226. 16 p.
Journal article
Designed to fail : a biopolitics of British Citizenship.
Tyler, I. 02/2010 In: Citizenship Studies. 14, 1, p. 61-74. 14 p.
Journal article
Against abjection.
Tyler, I. 04/2009 In: Feminist Theory. 10, 1, p. 77-98. 22 p.
Journal article
"Chav Mum, Chav Scum" : class disgust in contemporary Britain.
Tyler, I. 03/2008 In: Feminist Media Studies. 8, 1, p. 17-34. 18 p.
Journal article
Immigrant Protest: An Introduction
Tyler, I., Marciniak, K. 25/04/2013 In: Citizenship Studies. 17, 2, 14 p.
Editorial
Celebrity chav : fame, femininity and social class.
Tyler, I., Bennett, B. 08/2010 In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 13, 3, p. 375-393. 19 p.
Journal article
Welcome to Britain: The Cultural Politics of Asylum.
Tyler, I. 05/2006 In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 9, 2, p. 185-202. 18 p.
Journal article
Networks of Asylum Advocacy: A Handbook of Ideas, Strategies and Best Practice for Asylum Support Groups in a Challenging Social and Economic Climate
Tyler, I. 2012 Exeter : Exeter University. 45 p.
Other report
Pregnant Beauty : maternal femininities under neoliberalism.
Tyler, I. 01/2011 In: New femininities : postfeminism, neoliberalism and identity. Palgrave 344 p. ISBN: 978-0230223349.
Chapter
Pramfaced Girls: the class politics of "Maternal TV"
Tyler, I. 2011 In: Reality Television and Class. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan p. 210-224. 15 p. ISBN: 9781844573981 .
Chapter
Resituating Erving Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power
Tyler, I.E. 07/2018 In: The Sociological Review. 66, 4, p. 744-765. 22 p.
Journal article
From Revolting Subjects to Stigma Machines
Tyler, I.E. 10/08/2017
Other contribution
Lesbian brides: post-queer popular culture
McNicholas Smith, K.M., Tyler, I.E. 2/02/2017 In: Feminist Media Studies. 17, 3, p. 315-331. 17 p.
Journal article
Democratic Fascism
Tyler, I.E. 21/11/2016
Other contribution
80 years of war against workfare
Tyler, I.E. 14/09/2016 The Precariat, p. 24. 1 p.
Article
In a world of commonplace horrors, how do we talk about the refugee crisis?
Tyler, I.E., Loyd, J. 1/12/2015 Open Democracy
Article
All Publications
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Poverty and Stigma Design Team
01/11/2022 → 01/11/2023
Consultancy
The Stigma Conversations Podcast Series
01/06/2022 → 01/03/2023
Other
Lancaster Slavery Family Trees Community Researh Project
01/10/2020 → …
Research
Social Action Research Group
12/06/2020 → …
Research
Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission
01/07/2018 → 30/06/2021
Other
Philip Leverhulme Prize: Sociology and Social Policy
01/09/2015 → 31/12/2018
Research
The Sociology of Stigma
25/03/2013 → …
Research
ESRC Seminar Series ‘Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention‘.
01/09/2012 → 31/12/2014
Other
Maternal Publics and Counter Publics
01/01/2011 → …
Other
Revolting Subjects : Marginalisation and Resistance
01/09/2010 → 23/03/2012
Research
FEC Code: for EAA7033 Making asylum seekers legible and visibl
01/07/2010 → …
Research
Making aslum seekers legible and visible
01/07/2010 → 31/12/2011
Research
FP7: EPOK
01/02/2009 → 30/04/2012
Research
ESRC Peer Review College (External organisation)
Member of external research organisation
Lancaster Litfest
Participation in conference - Public
Book launch Andy Knox 'Sick Society: Reimagining How We Live Well together"
Invited talk
Low cost practice
Invited talk
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Stigma Free Futures
Consultancy
Stigma and poverty, Welsh policy unit
Participation in conference - Public
Who Do we think We are: Connected Sociologies Workshop
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Destigmatising Welfare
Invited talk
Imagined Portraits: Lela Harris and Imogen Tyler in Conversation
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Imagined Portraits: Lela Harris and Imogen Tyler in Conversation
Invited talk
The Architecture Of Stigma
Invited talk
Destigmatising Welfare
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Academy of Social Sciences (External organisation)
Membership of council
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, SPAIN (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel
Poverty Kills Kids
Invited talk
Living in the Wake of Colonial Capitalism; Racism, Poverty and Class Struggle
Invited talk
Joseph Rowntree Foundation Stigma Power and Poverty Design Team
Consultancy
Stigma and Poverty Design Team
Consultancy
Joesph Rowntree Foundation: Stigma and Poverty Design Team
Consultancy
Lancaster Black History Group and Lancaster City Museums slavery family trees exhibition
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Expert evidence to Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Poverty: Evidence Session on Stigma and Poverty
Oral presentation
Hanging Town, Haunted City: Researching Connected Sociologies of Colonial Capitalism in Place
Invited talk
Sewing Cafe Lancaster, Lancaster Black History Group and Lancaster University Launch of Slavery Family Trees Banner
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Enclosures and the Making of the Modern World
Invited talk
Facing the Past, Transforming the Future: Histories of Slavery and Capitalism in Lancaster and District
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Social Power and Mental Health
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Stigma Machine of Welfare
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
National Poverty Truth Network (External organisation)
Membership of board
'Seeing and Unseeing Poverty' Love Economics
Invited talk
2019 BSA Annual Conference
Invited talk
Stigma Machines Public Lecture York
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
ISA world Congress of Sociology
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission Launch Event
Other
Keynote: the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) and European SSSI International Conference
Invited talk
Stigma Machines: Public Lecture at the Centre for British Studies Humboldt Uni Berlin
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges
Invited talk
Welfare Workshop: Welfare Imaginaries Seminar
Invited talk
Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commission (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Inequalities in the UK, Public Panel/Debate with Danny Dorling, Akwugo Emejulu, Imogen Tyler
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Panel Discussion for Fashion Revolution Week Lancaster
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Social Policy, Sociology & Criminology Birmingham University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Panel Discussion on Inequalities at British Sociological Association conference 2018
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Stigma, Health, and Inequality: A Two-Day Workshop
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Stigma, Health, and Inequality: A Two-Day Workshop
Invited talk
The Sociological Review (Journal)
Editorial activity
European Journal of Cultural Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Annual Conference for the German Association for the Study of British Culture
Invited talk
Third international conference on cultural political economy conference 2017
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Stigma in Childhood
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Seminar Presentation
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
British Sociological Association Conference 2017
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Special session on Stigma: BSA Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference, University of Leeds, 6th-8th September, 2016.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
sociological review annual lecture
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Why is My Curriculum White? campaign launch, Lancaster University, 21st April, 2016
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Political Economy and Emotion: Into the Heart of State, Space and Power, Liverpool University, 11th April, 2016.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Economy and Austerity, Liverpool University, 4th December, 2015.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Workshop Refugee Mobilizations, Institut Für Protest, Berlin, 3rd Novembers, 2015.
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Public panel discussion on the topic of Austerity and Human Rights in Europe
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Disability. Austerity. Resistance
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
LSE Gender Institute
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Warwick University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Annual Social Theory Public Lecture Warwick University
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
A Public Conference on the Feminist Politics of Popular Culture part of a Lancaster City Wide Feminist Festival for International Women's Day 2015
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
getting with the programme: troubled families
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Sociological Review Annual Lecture
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
The Business of Immigration Detention: Activisms, Resistances, Critical Interventions.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Political Subjects’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Revolting Subjects
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Departmental Seminar Series at the Department of Social Work and Social Care
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Stigma Doctrine
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Assembly for Change
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
"Does 'poverty porn' undermine the Welfare State?"
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
'The Neoliberal Refashioning of Citizenship’
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Centre for Applied Philosophy Politics and Ethics 9th Annual International, Interdisciplinary Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English'
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
ESRC Seminar Series Social Issues and Anxieties: Revisiting Moral Panics for the 21st Century
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Warwick University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Radical Book Fair,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
LSE Gender Institute’s 20th anniversary conference, ‘The Presence of Gender’.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Social Abjection
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
edinburgh university geography depatment seminar
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
British Sociological Association Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
British Sociological Association
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Inclusion Scotland
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
class: the elephant in the room
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Feminism and the Digital - researching spaces, communities and the media
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Sociological Review (Journal)
Editorial activity
Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Migrant Resistance: Protests, Art, and Movements Transeuropa Festival 2013, Supported by Migrant Voice and Migrants’ Rights Network
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Symposium on Disgust
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Shimmering, Shining, Vomiting, Glitter: the politics and poetics of disgust
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Book Launch and talk, Edinburgh Radical Book Fair
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Revolting Subjects’ Book Launch and talk
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
The Economics of Illegality
Invited talk
Univ Sussex, University of Sussex
Visiting an external academic institution
Symposium on Revolting Subjects (Lecture and PG workshop)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Manchester Metropolitan University, Educational Research Centre Seminar
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
British Sociological Society Event ‘Mothering and the New Politics of Parenting’,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Mothering and the New Politics of Parenting’
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
‘Mothering and the New Politics of Parenting’ BSA Families and Relationship Study Group
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
"Eviction and Occupation: The struggles of Irish Travellers in Britain." Youth, Community and Regeneration group.
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Talk ‘Eviction and Occupation: The Struggles of Irish Travellers in Britain.’
Invited talk
'Naked Protest: Maternal Politics and the Feminist Commons'
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
ESRC Seminar Series, Critical Diversities @ the Intersection: Policies, Practices, Perspectives
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Different Subject, Diverse Strands: Diversity at the (Inter)discipline’
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Poverty Kills Children
Invited talk
FEMINIST SPACES AND FUTURES
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
British Sociological Association, Gender Study Group
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Forthcoming Feminisms: Gender Activism, Politics and Theories' British Sociological Association, Gender Study Group
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots one year on
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The International Migration Centre, Canadian Sociological Association, Canadian Association of Geographers
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The International Migration Centre, Canadian Sociological Association, Canadian Association of Geographers, The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Leeds Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, Leeds University.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Naked Protest.’ Gender Institute, Leeds University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Kids are Revolting. But why?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
‘Immigrant Protest.’ Symposium on Immigrant Protest
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Immigrant Protest: Political Aesthetics
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
THE EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Motherhood, Servitude, and the Delegation of Care
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Servitude and Motherhood.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Birthrites Exhibition
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Disobedience Day
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Birth Rites
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Public Lecture: Private View: Public Birth
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Seminar paper Sociology Department LSE
Invited talk
Feminist Media Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
ACR Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Association of Consumer Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Abject Social Figures.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Immigrant Protest: Migrancy, Borders, Resistance Workshop
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Katarzyna Marciniak
Hosting an academic visitor
Sociological Research Online (Journal)
Editorial activity
‘Maternal Bodies and Identities in Contemporary Britain.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Maternal Bodies and Identities in Contemporary Britain
Invited talk
Immigrant Protest: The Ethics and Politics of Scholarship on Asylum in Britain
Invited talk
Mother Trouble Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Mother Trouble
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Emotional Labour Centre for Gender and Womens Studies
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Journal Launch speech for Studies in the Maternal
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Studies in Maternal Journal Launch Birkbeck
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
‘Maternal Publics (and Counter-Publics).’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Representing the Maternal -- A speaker series presented by the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design to discuss representations of motherhood and related work/life issues.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Public Lecture: Why the Maternal Now?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
European Journal of Cultural Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Studies in The Maternal (Journal)
Editorial activity
Going Cheap: Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
ERSC funded seminar on Motherhood, Markets and Consumption, Lancaster University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
‘White Trash Aesthetics: The affectivity of social class.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
ERSC funded seminar, Marketing Department,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Seminar Series,Gender and Media Group
Invited talk
‘The Dawn Raid: Immigrant Protest.’ Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
'Chav Scum: The filthy politics of social class.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Interdisciplinary Institute (MISST), Manchester Metropolitan University
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Interrupting Maternal Voices: Between the Theoretical and Empirical, MAMSiE, Birbeck College, London
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Against Abjection.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘The Biopolitics of Citizenship.’ New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe-Living programme, IAS, Lancaster University.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
State, Violence and Subjectivities: Conversations with Prof. Veena Das, Lancaster University.
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Melancholic States International conference, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Performing the Border.’
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Emotion, Culture, Affect: Feminist Engagements, Goldsmiths College
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Chav Mum.’ Emotion, Culture, Affect: Feminist Engagements
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
(Un)Making Personhood
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘The Lie of the Land: The Immigration Industry and the Economics of Melancholia.’ (Un)Making Personhood,
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Birth: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction International Conference, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
School
School Engagement
Maternal Bodies, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Identity Matters
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Lauren Berlant
Hosting an academic visitor
Visual Culture and Motherhood
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
War, Terror, Spectacle, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
'The Culture of Narcissism.’ Power, Ethics and Feminism Conference,
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Power, Ethics and Feminism
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
War and Media Conference, Lancaster University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Lancaster University Staff Award 2014: Outstanding Contribution to Research in Inequalities
Prize (including medals and awards)
Lancaster University Staff Award 'Outstanding Contribution' to research in Social Inequalities
Prize (including medals and awards)
Bread and Roses Book Prize (shortlisted)
Prize (including medals and awards)
Bolton Institute of Higher Education Annual Prize for the Highest Undergraduate Degree Result
Prize (including medals and awards)
Philip Leverhulme Prize
Prize (including medals and awards)
Faculty of Arts and Social Science: Outstanding Contribution to Student experience Award
Prize (including medals and awards)
Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences
Election to learned society
- CeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research
- Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities
- Centre for Gender Studies
- Migrancy Research Group