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Dr Graham Sharp BA, MA, DPhil, PGCE

Senior Lecturer

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 641993

Email: G.Sharp@brighton.ac.uk

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) in Sociology (major) Economic History (minor) University of East Anglia
  • MA (Distinction) University of London
  • DPhil University of Sussex
  • PGCE (Post compulsory) University of Leicester

Profile

Graham left school at 15 with no qualifications and trained as a carpenter and joiner in the London building industry where he worked for nearly 10 years. He then became a mature student at University of East Anglia. He has spent the last 36 years in teaching and research having taught in two comprehensive schools, two further education colleges and two universities. Graham obtained a DPhil at University of Sussex through part time study. His thesis was on the relationship between the human labour process and nature. This interest in environmental sociology has informed his teaching and research interest up to the present.

Research interests

  • Environmental sociology
  • Sociology of food
  • Eco-socialism/Marxism
  • Social Movements
  • Guerrilla gardening and urban food growing
  • Alternative economic and social spaces and prefiguration

Teaching

  • 3rd year option, Environment and Society
  • 3rd year option, Sociology of Food
  • 2nd year Reading Group on Juliet Schor's Plenitude
  • 1st year Sociological theory specialising in Marxist Theory
  • 1st year Introductory Sociology

Research/consultancy projects

2007 Equal Brighton & Hove

2007 An investigation into the cultural and creative industries in Hastings. Clients Seascape

2003 Evaluation of Interreg IIIa
Client: South Bank University for Upper Normandy Regional Authority
Project value: £40,000
Carried out interviews with key decision makers and provided analysis

2003 Funding the Future
Client: National Union of Students
Project value: £40,000
An investigation of the attitudes of secondary school students to proposed changes in higher education funding

Publications

Number of items: 5.

Sharp, Graham (2010) Book review: P.W. Sutton the environment: a sociological introduction 2007 Sociology, 44 (1). pp. 182-184. ISSN 0038-0385

Sharp, G. and Watson, J. (2007) Barriers to skills development in a local construction labour market Local Economy, 22 (2). pp. 123-137.

Sharp, Graham, Tolley, J. and Watson, J. (2007) Employer engagement in practice: a case study EQUAL, Brighton, UK.

Sharp, Graham, Tolley, J. and Watson, J. (2007) Pre-apprenticeship and pre-work training for re-engaging 16-25 year olds not in employment, education or training EQUAL, Brighton, UK.

Sharp, G. (2007) School meals in England and the contradictions of capital Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 18 (3).

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Sharp, G "Post-Fordism, the vocational curriculum and the challenge to teacher preparation", Journal of Vocational Education, March 1996

Conference papers

Sharp, G Extending the labour process perspective: self-provisioning, ecology and the alternative economy. Paper presented to the 17th Annual International Labour Process Conference 29-31 March 1999 Royal Holloway, University of London.

Sharp, G and Watson, J Put up a parking lot. Paper presented to the 3rd International Symposium on Tourism and Sustainability at University of Brighton, Eastbourne 9-10 September 2004

Sharp, G School meals in England and the contradictions of capital. Paper presented to symposium on Capitalism and Nature at University of Manchester, Society and Environment Research Group. 4 February 2008

Sharp, G Mass catering, fast food and ecological troubles: the away-from-home eating choices of university students. Paper presented at the annual British Sociological Association Conference at Warwick University 28-30 March 2008

Sharp, G School meals: the sociology of new alternative economic spaces. Paper presented to the British Sociological Association Food Study Group Conference, British Library, London. July 14-15 2008

Sharp, G I'll eat better after I have graduated: Student eating patterns and deferred gratification. Paper presented to the Annual International Society for Research into Higher Education. Liverpool 9-11 December 2008.

Sharp, G and Watson, J The all day breakfast: aperiodic eating patterns and popular notions of healthy eating. Paper presented to the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Cardiff University 16-18 April 2009

Sharp, G Climate change, food security and urban agriculture. A sociology of alternative food movements. Paper presented to the British Sociological Association Food Study Group Conference 5-6 July 2010 British Library, London

Sharp, G Climate change, urban agriculture and metabolic rift. Paper presented British Sociological Association Annual Confrerence 6-8 April 2011 London School of Economics

Sharp, G and Watson, J The all day breakfast: Selling aperiodic eating in two countries. Paper presented at the Food, Media and Politics symposium 9 July 2012 Kings College Dept. of Geography, London.

Current work

Preparing draft (with Dr. Judith Watson) for a chapter in a book on food, media and politics with colleagues from Kings College, Department of Geography, London.

Completing an article on the role of allotments in urban food growing and climate change mitigation.

Writing a book on Food, Environment and the Metabolic Rift.