CHRIS ROJEK IS PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY & CULTURE.
HE WAS FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY & CULTURE AT NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STAFFORDSHIRE.
HE IS THE AUTHOR OF 10 BOOKS:
CAPITALISM & LEISURE THEORY (TAVISTOCK, 1985)
WAYS OF ESCAPE: MODERN TRANSFORMATIONS OF LEISURE & TRAVEL (MACMIALLAN, 1993)
DECENTRING LEISURE (SAGE 1995)
LEISURE & CULTURE (MACMILLAN, 2000)
CELEBRITY (REAKTION, 2001)
STUART HALL (POLITY, 2003)
FRANK SINATRA (POLITY, 2004)
LEISURE THEORY: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE (MACMILLAN, 2005)
CULTURAL STUDIES (POLITY, 2007)
BRIT-MYTH (REAKTION, 2007)
IN ADDITION HE HAS CO-AUTHORED:
(WITH STEWART COLLINS AND GERALDINE PEACOCK) SOCIAL WORK AND RECEIVED IDEAS, (ROUTLEDGE, 1987)
(WITH BRYAN S.TURNER) SOCIETY & CULTURE (SAGE, 2001)
HE HAS ALSO EDITED OR CO-EDITED MANY BOOKS, THE MOST RECENT OF WHICH ARE:
(WITH CRAIG CALHOUN AND BRYAN S.TURNER) THE HANDBOOK OF SOCIOLOGY, (SAGE, 2005);
(WITH SUSAN SHAW AND TONY VEAL) A HANDBOOK OF LEISURE STUDIES, (MACMILLAN, 2006)
His research interests are celebrity culture, the sociology of leisure and tourism, popular music and the sociology of culture. He would be eligible for postgraduate research supervision in any of these areas.
