Skip to content

Bel Deering BA, MA, PhD

Lecturer

contact:
Applied Social Science

Email: A.R.Deering@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Cemeteries, botanic gardens and greenspaces
  • Heterotopia
  • Garbology and unobtrusive methods
  • Animal sociology and animal welfare
  • Environmental sociology
  • Space, place and time

Teaching

  • Research methods and research projects

Publications

Deering, B. (2012/13) 'In the dead of night: a nocturnal exploration of fear in the graveyard' in Blanco, M-J and Vidal, R (ed), The Power of Death, Oxford: Berghahn (forthcoming)

Deering, B (2010) 'From anti-social to X-rated: exploring the social diversity of the cemetery' in Maddrell, A. and Sidaway, J. (ed) Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance, Farnham: Ashgate

Browning, B (2002) Just the facts: Animal Welfare, Oxford: Heinemann Library