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Dr Kay Peggs

Principal Lecturer

SSHLS

Milldam
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
PO1 3AS

kay.peggs@port.ac.uk

Profile

My research approaches issues associated with discrimination and power from a range of social perspectives. I am currently particularly interested in exploring what social perspectives (such as critical sociology, standpoint sociology and feminism) have to offer to the study of oppressions related to species. Current research interests include human/nonhuman divide, intersectionality and complex inequalities, and social ethics and moral consideration. I am also a research methods specialist. I have applied a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches in my research. I am currently working on observation as a methodological approach and am exploring creative methodologies.

Qualifications

BSc Hons Sociology (Portsmouth)
MSc Social Research Methods (Surrey)
PhD Sociology, title ’Women and Pensions’ (Surrey)

Research Clusters

Sociology and Social Theory
Gender

Research Interests

Discrimination and power: Human/nonhuman divide, Gender, intersectionality and complex inequalities, Ethics, Self and identity, Couple relationships.
Reflexive sociology: Critical sociology, Standpoint sociology.
Research methods: Combining methods, Creative methodologies.

PhD Supervision

Kay offers PhD supervision in a range of areas including; animals in society; gender and intersectionality; self, identity and identity politics; risk in society; couple relationships; and social research methods.

Research CV

Current Research

Monograph. Experiments, Animal Bodies and Human Values. Farnham: Ashgate.
Chapter in edited book ‘From Centre to Margins and Back Again: Critical Animal Studies and the Reflexive Human Self ’. In N. Taylor and R. Twine (Eds.). The Growth of Critical Animal Studies. Bloomsbury: Continuum

Publications Since 2008

Monograph

(2012) Animals and Sociology (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series), Palgrave Macmillan

Edited book

(In press). Observation Methods, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Series, 4 Volume set, (with Barry Smart and Joseph Burridge).

Peer-reviewed journal articles

(In press) Transgenic Animals, Biomedical Experiments and ‘Progress’. Journal of Animal Ethics.
(In press) ‘The Animal-Advocacy Agenda: Exploring Sociology for Nonhuman Animals’. The Sociological Review.
(2011) Risk, Human Health and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals: the Development of Transgenic Nonhuman Animals for Human Use. Minding Animals special issue of Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies, 2 (2). 49 - 69.
(2010) Nonhuman Animal Experiments in the European Community: Human Values and Rational Choice. Society and Animals, 18 (1): 1-20.
(2009) The Social Constructionist Challenge to Primacy Identity and the Emancipation of Oppressed Groups: Human Primacy Identity Politics and the Human/ ‘Animal’ Dualism’. Sociological Research Online, 14 (1). No pagination
(2009) A Hostile World for Nonhuman Animals: Human Identification and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals for Human Good, Sociology 43 (1): 85-102.

Chapters in edited books

(In press). ‘Observation Methods’. In B. Smart, K. Peggs and J. Burridge (Eds.) Observation Methods, 3 (SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Series, 4 Volume Set. London: SAGE (with Barry Smart and Joseph Burridge).
(In press). Sociology and Autobiography: Animals and the Sociological Background. In M. Hviid Jacobsen, A Petersen & M. Drake (Eds.) Experimental Methodologies - The Poetic Imagination in Sociology. Farnham: Ashgate.
(2011) Human Primacy Identity Politics, Nonhuman Animal Experiments and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals. In B. Carter and N. Charles (Eds.) Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 133 – 152

Previous Publications

Co-authored book

(2007) Identity and Repartnering after Separation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (with Richard Lampard). 255 pages

Peer reviewed journal articles

(2000) Which Pension?: Women, Risk and Pension Choice. The Sociological Review, 48 (3): 349-364.
(2000) Researching Women and Pensions: Empowerment and Sharing ‘Expert’ Knowledge’. Research 4 Policy and Planning, 18 (3): 3-12.
(1999) Repartnering: The Relevance of Parenthood and Gender To Cohabitation and Remarriage Among the Formerly Married, British Journal of Sociology, 50 (3): 443 – 465 (with Richard Lampard).