Dr Lauren White
BA (Hons), MA, PhD, AFHEA
School of Education
Lecturer in Social Research Methods
Full contact details
School of Education
Floor 2
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Understanding how health, illness & disability are experienced in everyday life - Meet Dr Lauren White Lauren joined the Sheffield Methods Institute in January 2023 as a Lecturer in Social Research Methods, having previously worked as a researcher in iHuman and the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Lauren is an active member of the Participatory Research Network (PRN), iHuman and the Critical Disability Studies team.
Lauren has a background in sociology, but her research is often interdisciplinary in nature. Her research focuses on the everyday experiences of health, illness and disability, utilising creative and participatory methods to explore these with communities. She is particularly interested in creative, affirmative and co-produced research, doing meaningful public engagement and knowledge exchange. She also cares about bringing research and teaching together. This is demonstrated most recently through the ‘Towards Joyful Learning’ project. Historically, Lauren won the national ESRC writing prize ‘Making Sense of Society’ for communicating her doctoral research to broader audiences and received a follow-on ESRC postdoctoral research fellowship to develop this work. In 2022, Lauren was awarded the Mildred Blaxter New Writer’s Award in the journal, Sociology of Health and Illness.
At present, Lauren is working on a number of projects around disability, anti-ableism, inclusive research methods and inclusive events. She is also focused on affirmative, joyful and ethical ways of doing social research and learning environments.
- Research interests
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My research falls into the following areas:
- Creative and participatory qualitative research methods
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Critical Disability Studies
- Sociology of Everyday Life
- Mobilities
- Materialities
Research Projects:
'Reimagining TAS with Disabled Young People'
‘Beers, burgers and bleach: Hygiene, toilets and hospitality in the time
‘Hand hygiene at work for workers on the move’
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Challenges of accessing hygiene facilities when on the move: an exploratory interview study with UK mobile workers. BMC Public Health.
- Unmasked: COVID-19, face coverings, and navigating dis/abling spaces and cultures. Space and Culture, 26(3), 296-308.
- From the home to the (hand)bag: Negotiating privacy in personal life when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Sociology.
- Like clockwork? (Re)imagining rhythms and routines when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Sociology of Health and Illness.
- My dear diaries: following, valuing and reflecting on moments with
research materials.. Qualitative Research.
- ‘I have to know where I can go’: mundane mobilities and everyday public toilet access for people living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Social & Cultural Geography.
- Book review : Charlotte Bates, Vital Bodies: Living with Illness. Qualitative Research, 20(1), 121-123.
- Hospitality work as social reproduction: Embodied and emotional labour during Covid-19. Sociology.
Chapters
- Composite Narratives, Developing Characters: A Method of Creative Data Analysis in Developing Public Engagement Artefacts In Kara H, Mannay D & Roy A (Ed.), The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis Policy Press
Exhibitions
- Everyday life with irritable bowel syndrome. University of Sheffield.
Website content
- Solidarity through routine : relations and rhythms of regular lockdown walks.
- Towards joyful ways of learning.
- 'Do you need a designer?' Centring co-researchers as designers and makers from Reimagining TAS with DYP.
- On building trust: Co-producing what it means to be trustworthy.
- Bumble Bees and Creativities: Methodological Musings on the Methods for Change Showcase Event.
- Our lockdown walks: Physically, but not socially, distanced walking as method.
Preprints
- Trustworthy Autonomous Systems and Disabled Young People: A Critical Literature Review, Center for Open Science.
All publications
Journal articles
- Challenges of accessing hygiene facilities when on the move: an exploratory interview study with UK mobile workers. BMC Public Health.
- Unmasked: COVID-19, face coverings, and navigating dis/abling spaces and cultures. Space and Culture, 26(3), 296-308.
- From the home to the (hand)bag: Negotiating privacy in personal life when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Sociology.
- Like clockwork? (Re)imagining rhythms and routines when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Sociology of Health and Illness.
- My dear diaries: following, valuing and reflecting on moments with
research materials.. Qualitative Research.
- ‘I have to know where I can go’: mundane mobilities and everyday public toilet access for people living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Social & Cultural Geography.
- Book review : Charlotte Bates, Vital Bodies: Living with Illness. Qualitative Research, 20(1), 121-123.
- Hospitality work as social reproduction: Embodied and emotional labour during Covid-19. Sociology.
Chapters
- Composite Narratives, Developing Characters: A Method of Creative Data Analysis in Developing Public Engagement Artefacts In Kara H, Mannay D & Roy A (Ed.), The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis Policy Press
- Composite narratives, developing characters: A method of creative data analysis in developing public engagement artefacts, The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis (pp. 227-239).
Exhibitions
- Everyday life with irritable bowel syndrome. University of Sheffield.
Website content
- Solidarity through routine : relations and rhythms of regular lockdown walks.
- Participatory research poses challenges to postgraduate researchers – here’s how we’re tackling the issue.
- Towards joyful ways of learning.
- 'Do you need a designer?' Centring co-researchers as designers and makers from Reimagining TAS with DYP.
- On building trust: Co-producing what it means to be trustworthy.
- Reimagining Trustworthy Autonomous Systems with Disabled Young People: Our Project Launch!.
- Bumble Bees and Creativities: Methodological Musings on the Methods for Change Showcase Event.
- Our lockdown walks: Physically, but not socially, distanced walking as method.
Preprints
- Trustworthy Autonomous Systems and Disabled Young People: A Critical Literature Review, Center for Open Science.
- Challenges of accessing hygiene facilities when on the move: an exploratory interview study with UK mobile workers. BMC Public Health.
- Teaching interests
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Lauren has previously taught on a variety of sociological modules and qualitative methods modules. She has also supervised BA and MA dissertations on a diversity of sociological topics.