Dr Simon Weaver
Senior Lecturer

Summary

Simon is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Brunel University London. He started at Brunel as a Lecturer in Media and Communications in April 2012 and became a Senior Lecturer in October 2017.

Simon completed his PhD in the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, with a thesis entitled Humour, Rhetoric and Racism: A Sociological Critique of Racist Humour. That thesis formed the basis of his first book, The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking, which was published by Ashgate in September 2011. His first journal article (The ‘Other’ Laughs Back: Humour and Resistance in Anti-Racist Comedy, Sociology 2010 44.1: 31-48), won the British Sociological Association’s ‘Sage Prize for Innovation and/or Excellence 2011’.

Between his PhD and arriving at Brunel, Simon worked as a Research Associate in Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester and held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Communications and Media Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University.

Qualifications:

• PhD Sociology (Bristol)
• MSc Sociology (Bristol)
• BA History and Sociology (UWE)

Responsibility

Postgraduate Programme Coordinator, Sociology and Communications.

Member of Academic Appeals Committee.

Member of Academic Misconduct Committee.

Deputy Chair of Board of Examiners.

Convenor, MSc Media and Communications.