People

Dr Emma Uprichard (PI) is at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. She is particularly interested in developing methodological approaches that enable the empirical application of complexity theory to the study complex social systems. Her substantive interests are in: methods and methodology; complexity theory; time and temporality; children and childhood; cities and urban change; food; critical realism; change and continuity. She was especially interested in exploring food and eating over time as a way of studying change and continuity more generally. [spacer height=”20px”]Professor Sarah Nettleton is at the Department of Sociology, University of York. Sarah is a medical sociologist with a broad range of research interests. She has undertaken research into topics such as: health promotion; medically unexplained symptoms; lay people’s use of e-health resources; food allergies; the working lives of medical doctors; running; and recovering heroin users. Her particular interests are in the sociology of the body and developing an embodied sociology.[spacer height=”20px”]Paul Chappell is a teaching fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of York. His main research interests are in the sociology of culture, food and eating, and research methods.  He is particularly interested in applying new quantitative, digital, and innovative methods and methodologies to the study of culture.