Research Profile
Dr Bella Dicks
Position:Reader
School:Social Sciences
Email:DicksB@cf.ac.uk
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75231
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74175
Extension:75231
Additional
contact info:
Address:0.57 Glamorgan Building
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75231
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74175
Extension:75231
Additional
contact info:
Address:0.57 Glamorgan Building
Research Interests
My main research interests are in the field of cultural sociology, and particularly focus on placed identities, cultural representation, regeneration and heritage. They fall into five broad areas of research:
- Heritage, museums, theme parks, cultural display and tourism.
- Cultural consumption, urban redevelopment and the relation of culture to economy.
- Place, community, cities: real, virtual and imagined.
- Methodological paradigms for qualitative social and cultural research, especially hypermedia and hypertext, visual ethnography, discourse analysis.
- Identities of place: devolution, nation and post-industrial identities.
Current Research Projects
- 'Ethnography for the Digital Age', (with Coffey, A., Mason, B., Renold, E., Williams, M.) Start date: 1.10.2002. End date: 31.9.2004.
Recent Research Projects
- The formation of national identity: the experience of children in Wales, (with Scourfield, J., Drakeford, M., and Holland, S.) funded by University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, start date 01.06.01. End date: 31.05.02
- 'The Welsh Assembly and the Voluntary Sector: a democratisation of relations?' (with Hall, T and Pithouse, A.) Funded under the ESRC's Devolution and Institutional Change Initiative. Dec. 98. Start date: 5.4.99. End date: 31.1.00.
- 'The Production of Hypermedia Ethnography', (with Atkinson, P., Coffey, A., Dicks, B. and Holbrook, B.) Start date: 1.10.97. End date: 31.9.99.