Sanjay Sharma
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications
Sociology and Communications
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Education & Sociology (University of Manchester)
- MSc Sociology (University of Leeds)
- PGDip, Race Relations, (Lancaster University)
- BSc Electronics & Electrical Engineering (UCL, University of London)
Personal Biography
My original training was in engineering & computing, though I found the social sciences & humanities to be a better home to academically pursue issues of social change and justice.
I began my career as a field researcher at the University of Sheffield, Adult Continuing Education (1992-4). I then was employed as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (1994-7) while completing my PhD in the School of Education, University of Manchester. My first Lectureship was at Staffordshire University, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (1997-99), and then I moved to the University of East London, School of Cultural & Innovation Studies (1999-2004). I took up my current position in Sociology and Communications at Brunel in September 2004.
Research
Research Overview
My work is of an interdisciplinary nature, drawing on cultural, media and sociological studies approaches. This research is located in the areas of racialization and difference, cultural politics and new media, which critically consider questions of representation, radical pedagogy, subjectivity and materiality. These interventions operate through thematics of 'critical race theory and 'technologies of race'. In particular, my work is concerned with bridging conceptual and political issues, especially in relation to the production of racialized knowledge and material culture.
Member, Centre for Media, Culture & Regulation
Member, Centre for Biomedicine & Society
Current Projects
The Racial Ecology of Twitter
Recently Completed Projects
AHRC
Noise of the Past: A poetic journey of war, memory & dialogue
£207,422
Sept 2007 – Feb 2009
Sanjay Sharma (Co-Investigator)
PhD Supervision
Danil Mikhailov: Problems of Authority in the Emerging Online Culture: A case study of National Heritage; 2010 – 2015
Sina Akter: Social networks and the isolation of British Bangladeshi young women; 2009 – 2012
Lama Al hammouri: Arab Framing and perception of the 2008 American Presidential election; 2009 - 2012
Marta Villela-Vila: New media, young women and body image; 2010 - 2015
Naima Al Naami: Culture and Social Integration: The Case of the Libyan Community in the UK; 2010 - 2013
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Multiculturalism: Race, Identity & Difference (Yr 3)
- Media, Culture & Representation (Yr2)
- Introduction to Social Inquiry (Yr1)
Module contributor
- Forensics, Science & Society (Yr3)
Postgraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Making Web Cultures
Module contributor
- Dissertation
- PhD Training Workshops
Administration
- Undergraduate Programme Convenor (shared)
- Timetabling Officer
- Sociology-Communications Teaching & Learning Group
- Website Liaison
External Activity
- Editor darkmatter Journal
- Editorial Advisory Board, Subjectivity
- Runnymede Trust, Academic Forum Member
- Associate Member, Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) Goldsmiths, University of London
- External Examiner: Communication, Culture & Media MA, Coventry University (2011-13); Social Sciences Programme BSc, Birkbeck College, University of London; (2008-11); Cultural Studies & Postcolonial Studies MA, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London (2007-10)
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2012) Puwar, N. and Sharma, S., Curating Sociology, The Sociological Review 60 (Supplement S1) : 40- 63
(2011) Sharma, S., Unravelling difference: Towards a sensory multiculture, Senses and Society 6 (3) : 284- 305
(2010) Sharma, S., 'Crash' - Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Whiteness?, Cultural Studies 24 (4) : 533- 552
(2009) Sharma, S., Teaching British South Asian cinema - towards a 'materialist' reading practice, Journal of South Asian Popular Culture 7 (1) : 21- 35
(2008) Papadopoulos, D. and Sharma, S., Editorial: Race/matter - materialism and the politics of racialization, darkmatter Journal Issue 2
(2006) Sharma, S., Teaching Diversity: im/possible pedagogy, Policy Futures in Education 4 (2)
(2003) Sharma, S. and Sharma, A., White paranoia: Orientalism in the age of empire, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 7 (3-4) : 301- 317
Book Chapters
(2010) Sharma, S., Critical Multiculturalism and Cultural and Media Studies. In: May, S. ed. Critical Multiculturalism. Routledge -
(2009) Puwar, N. and Sharma, S., Short-circuiting the production of knowledge. In: Towards a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge and Exodus from the Education Factory, edited by The Edu-Factory Collective. New York : Autonomedia
(2008) Sharma, S., Teaching representations of cultural difference through film. In: Pollock, M. ed. Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School. New York : New Press 186- 190
(2006) Sharma, S., 'Sounds Asian'. In: Sayyid, S., Ali, N. and Kalra, V. eds. A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain. London : Hurst
(2004) Sharma, S., 'The problem with multiculturalism'. In: al, ILE. ed. Institutional Racism in Higher Education. Trentham Press
(2004) Sharma, S., Transforming the curriculum? the problem with multiculturalism. In: Law, I., Phillips, D. and Turney, L. eds. Institutional racism in higher education. Stoke-on Trent: Trentham Books 105- 117
(2003) Sharma, S., The sounds of alterity. In: Bull, M. and Back, L. eds. The auditory culture reader. Oxford: Berg 409- 418
Books
(2006) Sharma, S., Multicultural encounters. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
(1996) Sharma, S., Dis-orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music. Zed books
