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- psycho-social studies
- Disability issues
- Health inequalities
- Welfare State
- sociology
- organ transplantation
- Veganism
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- Qualifications:FdSc, BSc, MSc. AFHEA
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Sociology
- Department:School of Social Sciences
- Telephone:+441173286758
- Email:Sophie.Savage@uwe.ac.uk
About me
I am a disabled and chronically ill academic with a deep commitment to inclusive, critical, and practice-led Sociology. As a member of the Sociology team at UWE for the past seven years, I have completed a rigorous academic grounding, developed a research-informed, student-centred, and reflexive teaching style drawing from personal experience as well as scholarly engagement.
My fields of scholarly interest broadly are Critical Disability Studies, Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies, Psycho-Social Studies, and post-human theory.
This includes the intersections of body, identity, and technology, and the broader role that Sociology can play in helping students navigate and challenge systemic structures. I especially enjoy supporting students with their independent projects and helping them to connect sociological theory to real-world challenges – guiding them to unpick their big questions, develop their own theories, and create knowledge.
Area of expertise
Disability, Autoethnography, Reflexivity, Psycho-social studies, Post-human theory, Disabled Children's Childhood Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Childhood liver transplantation.
Currently, I am working on:
A co-produced autoethnographic exploration of Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World with Dr Louis Gough
Cyborg field notes: Telepresence teaching in higher education
DPhil Thesis: Answering the call and leading the way: An exploration of Childhood Liver Transplantation, harnessing the power of lived experience
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