Dr Tim Strangleman
Position (Former Staff Member)
Senior Research Fellow and Research Manager
Qualifications
BA (Durham); PhD (Durham); Diploma in Social Studies (Ruskin College Oxford);
PGCAP (Nottingham).
Background/Career
Tim started his working life as a signalman on the London Underground. He
left LT in 1988 to go to Ruskin College in Oxford and later went off to do
a degree (History and Sociology) and doctorate at the University of Durham
(Sociology). He has held research posts at the universities of Durham and
Manchester. From May 1999 until June 2003 he was a lecturer in Sociology at
the University of Nottingham where he taught courses on the sociology of work
and employment, management and organisations, and social theory.
Tim was a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society
from 2002-2004. He is currently a member of the Sociology editorial
board. He has been a member of the British Sociological Association (BSA)
Executive since 2001 where he was the Chair of the Publications Committee
(http://www.britsoc.co.uk/). From
1999 to 2001 he was on the editorial committee of the BSA’s Network
newsletter. During 2003 he was one of the founding convenors of the new BSA
Study Group on Work, Employment and Economic Life (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/bsaweb.php?link_id=109&area=item2).
Tim has been active in debates around the interdisciplinary field of working
class studies. In 2003 he has along with colleagues from Newcastle and Queen
Mary University won funding for a ESRC seminar series on working class studies.
He has close links to the Centre for Working Class Studies in Youngstown Ohio
(http://www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/)
where he spent a fellowship during April and May 2003 and is also a member
of their international advisory board. He is a committee member of the newly
formed Working Class Studies Association http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/wcm.nsf/pages/wcsa
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Research interests and expertise
Tim’s research interests centre on work and employment. His doctoral
work involved understanding the impact of privatisation on the railway industry.
This research has been published in a number of paper and also in the monograph
Work Identity at the end of the Line? Privatisation and Culture Change
in the UK Rail Industry, Palgrave, (2004). This work examines occupational
identity in the railway industry over the past 180 years.
Further details about the book can be found at: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403939802
Tim is currently building on his interest in visual sociology and methods
in a number of ways. He is working on research into the Guinness brewery at
Park Royal in West London which closed during 2005. He is heading a visual
project with Professor Margie Wetherell of the Open University based on the
Identities and Social Action Programme. He is also involved in developing
a series of projects at Working Lives which involve work and the visual. Please
take a look at the Gallery section of the web site: http://www.workinglives.org/gallery.html
The aim is to build a network of photographers, artists and academics interested
in the portral of work and the representation of labour. Please contact Tim
if you are interested in this area.
Tim is currently working on a series of projects on various aspects of work
identity and meaning. These include:
ESRC/ MRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme, ‘NHS Direct:
Patient Empowerment or Dependency?’, £165,000 co-applicant, 2001
His work has appeared in a number of journals including Work, Employment
and Society, Sociology, Sociological Research Online, International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research, Human Relations, Sociology of Health and Illness,
Health and Critical Social Policy.
Tim would be very interested in hearing from students wishing to carry out
doctorial studies in his areas of interest.
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Publications
Books
- Work Identity at the End of the Line? Privatisation and Culture Change
in the UK Rail Industry Palgrave, 2004.
- Studying Work and Society with Tracey Warren Routledge, (forthcoming
2006).
Journal articles
2006
- ‘The Nostalgia for Permanence at Work? The end of work and its commentators’, The Sociological Review, (Forthcoming)
- ‘Dignity, respect and the cultures of work’, Work, Employment
and Society (forthcoming).
2005
- Sociological Futures and the Sociology of Work, Sociological Research
Online, Volume 10, Issue 4,
<http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/4/strangleman.html>.
- ‘Technology, knowledge and nursing: the case of NHS Direct’,
with Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O’Cathian,
A. Human Relations 58: 147-171.
- ‘In search of the new citizen – Risk and expertise in late
modernity’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 13,
Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O’Cathian, A.
2004
- ‘Ways of (not) seeing work: The visual as a blind spot in WES?’,
Work, Employment and Society
- ‘Risk and the responsible health consumer: the problematics of entitlement
among callers to NHS Direct’, Critical Social Policy, 24,
2, 210-232, with D., Goode, J., Greatbatch, D, Luff, D., O’Cathain,
A., Hanlon, G. (2004).
- ‘Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise’,
with Greatbatch, D., Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Luff, D. & O’Cathain,
A., (forthcoming 2004) Sociology of Health and Illness.
- ‘In search of the new citizen – Risk and expertise in late
modernity’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Goode, J.,
Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O’Cathian, A. (forthcoming
2004).
- ‘Class memory: Working-class autobiography and the art of forgetting’,
in Russo, J. & Linkon, S. (eds.) New Working-Class Studies,
Cornell University Press, (forthcoming 2005).
- ‘Organisational cultures in the public sector’, in Ferlie,
E., Lynn, L. & Pollitt, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Public
Management, Oxford University Press with Robert Dingwall (forthcoming
2005).
- ‘Male callers to NHS Direct: The assertive carer, the new dad, and
the reluctant patient’, with Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D.,
Luff, D. & O’Cathian, A., Health (2004) 8, 3, 311-328.
- ‘Technology, knowledge and nursing: the case of NHS Direct’,
with Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O’Cathian,
A. Human Relations (Forthcoming).
- ‘Dignity, respect and the cultures of work’, Work, Employment
and Society (forthcoming).
- ‘Decline at work in the USA? Rethinking deindustrialisation’, Sociology (forthcoming).
2002
- ‘Constructing the past: railway history from below or a study in
Nostalgia?’, Journal of Transport History, 23, 2 (2002).
- ‘Nostalgia for nationalisation? – The politics of privatisation’,
Sociological Research Online, 7, 1. (http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/1/strangleman.html)
2001
- ‘Networks, Place and Identities in Post-Industrial Mining Communities’,
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, special issue on Class,
Networks and Place, 25, 2, 253-267.
- ‘I was a docker, I was a railwayman’, Work, Employment
and Society, 15, 3, 645-651.
1999
- The nostalgia of organisations and the organisation of nostalgia:
Past and present in the contemporary railway industryÕ, Sociology,
33, 4, 725-746.
- ‘Looking through the window of opportunity: The cultural cleansing
of workplace identity’, Sociology 33, 1, 47-67, with Ian Roberts.
- ‘Heritage work: Re-representing the work ethic in the coalfields’,
Sociological Research Online, with Hollywood, E., Beynon, H., Hudson, R. & Bennett, K. (http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/1995/1/strangleman.html)
- ‘Making the difference in the different places?’,
Northern Economic Review, 28, 107-110.
1998
- ‘Managing culture and the manipulation of difference: A case
study of second generation transplants’, Asia Pacific Business
Review, 5, 2, 161-182, with Ian Roberts.
1997
- ‘When nostalgia hits the buffers’, Chartist, September/October,
16-17.
Book Chapters
2006
- ‘Work, Sociology and the Visual’ in Vroege, B. (ed.) Changing
Faces / WORK in Progress (Forthcoming).
2005
- ‘Organisational cultures in the public sector’, in Ferlie,
E., Lynn, L. & Pollitt, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Public
Management, Oxford University Press with Robert Dingwall .
2001
- ‘Building again? Trade unions and the threats and opportunities
of formalisation in a market economy’, in Van Gyes, G. & De Witte,
H. (eds.) Can Class Still Unite? The Differentiated workforce, class
solidarity and Trade Unions, Ashgate, with Ian Roberts.
- ‘Class memory: Working class autobiography and the art of forgetting’,
in New Working Class Studies, edited by John Russo and Sherry Linkon
(Cornell University Press).
1998
- ‘Managing culture and the manipulation of difference: A case study
of second generation transplants’, in Garrahan, P. and Ritchie, J.
(eds.) East Asian Direct Investment in Britain, London, Frank Cass,
ISBN 07146 4981 3, with Ian Roberts.
1997
- ‘Social reproduction, social dislocation and the labour market’,
in Kristensen, C. (ed.) The Meeting of the Waters-Individuality and Community,
Work and Solidarity in High Modernity, Oslo, Scandinavian University Press,
ISBN 82-00-37688-5, with Ian Roberts.
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