Dr Thomas Hall
Job Title: Linked WISERD Researcher
Institution: Cardiff University
Email: Hallta@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: 029 2087 6288
Role: Leads on the Knowing Localities in Context Project on Local Knowledge, Spatial Practice and Urban Patrol
Biography
Tom is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
Research Interests
Tom’s research interests include; homelessness and ‘street’ populations; spatial practices of urban care, repair and patrol; begging, benefits and gifts; youth transitions, biography and locality (including mixed methods work with young people); informal education and citizenship; devolved governance and the third (community) sector. Tom is also interested in the cultural sociology of urban and social exploration, (pedestrian) mobilities and mobile methods. These various interests converge on, and inform, a primary concern with the street-level experience and management of inequality in urban public space(s).
Current Research
Recent work with the WISERD team overlaps with a longstanding research engagement in central Cardiff tracing the spatial practice of social care and (more recently) street cleaning services. This ethnographic study of urban public space has been conducted over a period of five years, and supported through a period of extended study leave
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Recent Publications
Hall T, Smith R, 2011, ‘Walking, Welfare and the Good City’ Anthropology in Action 18(3) pp 33-44 (Available here)
Hall T, 2009, ‘Footwork: moving and knowing in local space(s)’ Qualitative Research 9(5) pp 571-585 (Available here)
Coffey A, Hall T, Lashua B, 2009, ‘Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place’ Journal of youth studies 12(5) pp 547-561 (Available here)
Hall T, 2008, ‘Hurt and the city: landscapes of urban violence’ Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (Special issue: Landscapes of Violence – Unmaking, Forgetting and Erasing the Other) 16 (1) pp 63-76 (Available here)
Hall T, Lashua B, Coffey A, 2008, ‘Sound and the everyday in qualitative research’ Qualitative Inquiry 14(6) pp 1019-1040 (Available here)
Hall T, Coffey A, 2007, ‘Learning selves and citizenship: gender and youth transitions’ Journal of Social Policy 36(2) pp 279-296 (Available here)
