Dr. Sue Heath

Biography

Sue Heath is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. She has served as Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Humanities and was the Deputy Associate Dean for PGR and Director of Methods North West. As a co-director of the Morgan Centre for Research on Everyday Lives and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, her work focuses on housing, domesticity, and living arrangements, particularly in the context of intergenerational dependencies and the phenomenon known as 'Generation Rent'. She has led ESRC-funded projects that explore shared living arrangements and has published works on communal living practices. Recently, her research has taken a historical turn, examining the changing nature of student living arrangements within the civic university sector. Heath has received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a monograph about accommodating students in English Civic Universities. With robust methodological interests, she emphasizes research ethics and creative qualitative methods in her collaborations. Heath has also contributed to visual documentation of everyday life through an artist residency project. Her academic qualifications include a PhD in Applied Social Science and Educational Research from Lancaster University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Bristol.

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