Dr Paul Sweetman
Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries
Email paul.sweetman@kcl.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 1870
Culture, Media and Creative Industries
King’s College London
6D Chesham Building
Strand Campus
London
WC2R 2LS
Office hours
Please contact by email to arrange an appointment
Research Interests
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Cultural sociology and the sociology of culture
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Social and cultural theory (particularly with reference to habitus, reflexivity and sociality)
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Subcultures
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The body and identity
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Fashion and consumption
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Visual methods and methodology
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Ethics, representation and recognition
Educational and Professional Background
Paul Sweetman joined CMCI in January 2011 as Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries. He was previously Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton (2000 – 2010), and, before that, Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Durham (1998 -1999). His PhD was in Sociology, focusing on contemporary forms of body modification (University of Southampton, 1999), and he also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Sociology from the University of Manchester (1993) and an MA in the Sociology of Contemporary Culture from the University of York (1994). His first degree was in Economics with Economic History, from the University of Sussex (1989), following which he also worked as a Financial Statistics Analyst at the Bank of England.