Dr Stuart Scrase (Any)

I lecture in both sociology and anthropology. My doctoral research utilised ethnographic fieldwork in north London to explore the 2011 English riots, specifically examining the issue of violence against police. Highlighting the role of shame and anger, the project sought to situate individual acts of violence in 2011 within an historical framework of police-black relations, education, socio-economic context, and structured possibilities for self-esteem.

I currently teach sociology at both Masters and Undergraduate levels, and Anthropology at Undergraduate level. My specific teaching focus can be found in the interdisciplinary module Emotions, the Body, and the Social. The module is oriented to the role of emotions as social phenomena and their involvement in processes of social construction, knowledge production, power and the pursuit of power, and self and its interconnection with the social world.