Professor Susan Halford

MA, PhD, ACSS

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Professor of Sociology
Telephone: (023) 8059 2572
Email: Susan.Halford@soton.ac.uk

Biography

Susan Halford (Professor of Sociology) studied Geography and Urban Studies at Sussex University where she was also awarded a PhD in 1991. She teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate units including Cyberlives? New Technologies and Social Change and The Philosophy and Methods of Social Research.

Research interests

Susan is a founding member of the Work Futures Research Centre at the University of Southampton. Her research interests centre on everyday work and organization, particularly in the context of social and organizational change. She has been involved in a series of ESRC funded projects, exploring equal opportunities and organizational change, gendered careers, and gendered working identities. She is author of numerous publications in these areas, including (1997) Gender, Careers and Organizations (with Mike Savage and Anne Witz), (2001) Gender, Power and Organizations (with Pauline Leonard) and (2006) Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Space, Place and Time (with Pauline Leonard). Susan's most recent and current projects have concentrated more specifically on new information and communication technologies at work. Recently she has worked on hot-desking and home working in the private sector (2001-5); telemedicine and the use of ICT in the organization and delivery of health-care across primary and secondary sectors (Norwegian Research Council 2005-8); and the use of Computer Decision Support Systems in emergency call handling (National Institute for Health Research 2008-10). She has recently begun two new projects: the first, with Katy Lyle, exploring the development of a new nanotechnology device for blood testing (EPSRC funded 2009-12) tracing transitions from basic science to technical application and (potentially) embedded use in healthcare practice; and the second exploring the use of new technologies by older workers in healthcare (funded by the Norwegian Research Council). These recent projects use a variety of theoretical approaches (including Science and Technology Studies, Actor Network Theory and spatial theory) and methodologies (including visual and ethnographic methods) to explore relations between technology, work and organization.

Teaching activities

My current PhD students are: Graham Baxendale: An Examination of the History of the Regulation of Sexuality. Julie Blanchard: Pre-teen Fashionable Femininity. Gayna Davey: Beyond a binary model of classed practices - education decision making and the middle-class. Mary Houston: Impact of digital communication on policy-making. Katy Lyle: Sociologies of nanotechnology: paths into use. Mark Schueler: Social Influences and Social Impacts in Enterprise 2.0

Selected publications

Books
	Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard 2006 Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Place, Space and Time. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
	Susan Halford, Lorelei Cooke and Pauline Leonard 2003 Racism in the medical profession: the experience of UK graduates. British Medical Association; Health Policy and Economic Research Unit.
	Susan Halford & Pauline Leonard 2001 Gender, Power and Organisations. Macmillan.  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0 333 61843 2)
	Susan Halford, Mike Savage and Anne Witz 1997 Gender, Careers and Organisations - Current Developments in Banking, Nursing and Local Government. Macmillan.  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0-333-60978-6)
	Susan Halford et al 1990 Patterns and Processes of Urban Change in the UK: a research review. London: HMSO., Jointly authored with A Fielding and members of the Centre for Urban and Regional Research, Sussex University. 72 pp.

Chapters in books
	Susan Halford and Tony Fielding 2000 A longitudinal and regional analysis of gender-specific social and spatial mobilities in England and Wales 1981-91. In P Boyle and H Halfacree (eds), Migration and Gender in the Developed World (pp. 30-54). London: Routledge.
	Susan Halford & Pauline Leonard 1998 New identities? Professionalism, managerialism and the construction of self. In M. Exworthy and S. Halford (eds), Professionals and the New Managerialism in the Public Sector. Open University Press., (ISBN: 0 335 19819 8)
	Susan Halford & Mike Savage 1997 Rethinking Restructuring: Embodiment, Agency and Identity in Organizational Change. In R. Lee and J. Wills (eds), Geographies of Economies. Arnold., (ISBN: 0 340 677163)
	Ann Witz, Susan Halford and Mike Savage 1995 Organised Bodies: Gender, sexuality and embodiment in contemporary organisations. In L Adkins and V Merchant (eds), Sexualising the social: Power and the organisation of sexuality (pp. 173-191). Basingstoke: Macmillan., Explorations in Sociology, Volume 47, British Sociological Association
	Susan Halford and Mike Savage 1995 The bureaucratic career: demise of adaptation? In T Butler and M Savage (eds), Social Change and the Niddle Classes (pp. 117-132). London: UCL Press.
	Susan Halford 1992 Feminist change in a patriarchal organisation: the experience of women's initiatives in local government and implications for feminist perspectives on state institutions. In Mike Savage & Ann Witz (eds), Gender and Bureaucracy (Sociological Review Monographs, Vol. 40). Blackwell.  On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0631185283)
	Susan Halford 1991 Positive policies for women in British local government. In Povall M and Lankau-Herrmann M (eds), Equal Opportunity Developments for Women in Local Government: an Anglo-German perspective (pp. 29-43). London: Anglo-German Foundation.

Articles in journals
	Halford, S., Lotherington, AT. Dyb K. and Obstfelder, A. 2010 Un/Doing Gender with ICT. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Studies, 18, 1, 20-37.  On-line abstract
	Halford, S., Obstfelder, A., Lotherington, AT. and Dyb, K. 2010 Getting the Whole Picture? New information and communication technologies in healthcare work and organization. Information, Communication and Society, 13, 3  On-line abstract
	Dyb, K. and Halford, S. 2009 Sociology. Placing Globalizing Technologies: Telemedicine and the making of difference, 42, 2, 232-249.  On-line abstract
	Susan Halford, Aud Obstfelder, Ann Therese Lotherington 2009 Beyond Implementation and Difference: how the delivery of ICT policy is re-shaping healthcare. Policy and Politics, 37(1), 113-128.  On-line abstract
	Susan Halford, Tim Strangleman 2009 In Search of the Sociology of Work: past, present and future. Sociology , 42, 5., 811-828.  On-line abstract
	Susan Halford 2008 The Sociology of space, work and organization: from fragments to spatial theory. Sociology Compass, 2 (3), 925–943.  On-line abstract
	Susan Halford 2007 Changement organisationnel et strategies identitaires: le cas de cinq infirmier-e-s-britanniques. Travail, Genre et Societies, 17, pp.27-48., NB: this is a version of the 2003 Antipode article, re-written for a French audience.
	Susan Halford 2006 Collapsing the Boundaries? Fatherhood, Organization and Home-Working. Gender, Work and Organization, 13 (4)  On-line abstract
	Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard 2006 Place, Space and Time: The fragmentation of workplace subjectivities. Organizational Studies, 27(5), 657-676.
	Susan Halford 2005 Hybrid Workspace: Re-spatializations of work, organization and management. New Technology, Work and Employment, 20, 18-33.  On-line article
	Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles 2005 More than words: reflections on working visually. Sociological Research Online, 10 (1) Editorial  On-line article
	Susan Halford 2004 Towards a Sociology of Organizational Space. Sociological Research Online, vol. 9, no. 1  On-line abstract  On-line article
	Susan Halford 2003 Gender and Organisational Restructuring in the National Health Service: Performance, Identity and Politics. Antipode, 35 (2), 286-308.
	Susan Halford & Pauline Leonard 2003 Space and place in the construction and performance of gendered nursing identities. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 42 (2), 201-208., Re-printed in Dingwall, R. (Ed) Qualitative Health Research London: Sage.
	Susan Halford and Mike Savage 1995 Changing Organizations, Changing People? Gender and cultural change in banking and local government. Work Employment and Society, 9 (1), 92-122.
	S. Halford and A. Fielding 1993 The Geography of Opportunity: an analysis of gender-specific occupational mobilities in England and Wales 1971-1981. Environment and Planning A, 25, 1421-1440.
	S. Halford, M. Goodwin and S. Duncan 1993 Regulation Theory, the local state and transition of urban politics. Society and Space, 11, 67-88.
	Sue Brownill & Susan Halford 1990 Understanding women's involvement in local politics: how useful is a formal/informal dichotomy? Political Geography Quarterly, 9(4), 396-413.
	Susan Halford 1989 Spatial Divisions and Women's Initiatives in British Local Government. Geoforum, 20(2), 161-174.
	Susan Halford 1988 Women's Initiatives in Local Government: Where do they come from and where are they going? Policy and Politics, 16(4), 251-60.
	Susan Halford, Simon Duncan and Mark Goodwin 1988 Policy Variations on Local States: Uneven development and local social relations. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 12, 107-128.
	Susan Halford, Simon Duncan and Mark Goodwin 1987 Politikmuster im lokalen Staat: Ungleiche Entwicklung und lokale soziale Verhaltnisse. Prokla, 68, 8-27.

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