Bridget Byrne

Professor of Sociology at Alliance Manchester Business School

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  • Alliance Manchester Business School

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Biography

Alliance Manchester Business School

Biography

Bridget studied at Cambridge and Sussex universities and came to Manchester after working at the LSE and Goldsmiths in London.

Bridget''s book White lives: the interplay of ''race'', class and gender in everyday life (Routledge) was joint winner of the BSA Philip Abrams Award 2006.

In 2014 she published Making Citizens: public rituals and private journeys to citizenship (Palgrave)

Bridget has held a Leverhulme Fellowship on ''Citizenship ceremonies: narrations of nation?'' 2010/2011 and an ESRC small grant on ''School choice and local place'' (2009/10). She also had a British Academy Small Grant ''Citizenship ceremonies: an international comparison'' (2010/2011).

Bridget is a member of the ESRC Centre - CoDE (Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and Inequality). She is currently writing a book on School Choice.

Further information

Additional information:

Interview on Radio 4 Thinking Allowed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nvjhp

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