Book Chapter
Breeze M & Taylor Y (2024) Gender and academic careers. In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Education and Gender. Sage.
Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy
Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology Stirling
I joined the department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at Stirling as a Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy in March 2024. I've been lecturing in universities since 2010, including in various academic roles in Sociology and Education at Queen Margaret University, the University of Strathclyde, Universidade de Lisboa, and the University of Edinburgh.
I teach, research, and conduct scholarship in queer feminist sociology, across the sociology of education (especially the critical sociology of higher education and academic work) and the sociology of emotions (especially the 'bad feelings' that circulate in education contexts). My work addresses social inequalities associated with gender, sexuality and their intersections, exploring how these are lived, resisted and reconfigured. This work is driven by a concern with queer feminist agency and collective action, including in HE itself, so prioritises collaborative, creative methods and pedagogies and a takes a critically reflexive approach to academic practices. I'm interested in why universities are the way they are and how they might be otherwise.
At the moment I am:
I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh (2014), a creative ethnography of women's roller derby. My first monograph 'Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby : Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence' won the 2016 British Sociological Association Phillip Abram's Memorial Prize for the best first book in Sociology that year.
I am accepting applications for PhD supervision and am excited about doctoral projects investigating any aspect of gender and sexuality. Please get in touch if you'd like to discuss your proposal. For instance, currently I am supervising doctoral research about free period product provision (Kate Molyneaux), gender neutral theyby parenting (Milo Chestnut), and autistic/queer access to healthcare (Samantha McDowell).
Research interests and recognised specialisms in:
Queer feminist sociology
Social inequalities especially gender, sexuality and their intersections
Sociology of education, especially higher education
Imposter 'syndrome' and bad/ugly feelings
Care, especially unpaid care work and the politics of social reproduction
Creative, ethnographic, participatory and 'insider' methods
Book Chapter
Breeze M & Taylor Y (2024) Gender and academic careers. In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Education and Gender. Sage.
Book Chapter
Imposter feelings in academic work
Breeze M (2024) Imposter feelings in academic work. In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Education and Gender. Sage.
Book Chapter
Queer feminist teaching(s) in the university Learning about power in and beyond the classroom
Breeze M & Taylor Y (2024) Queer feminist teaching(s) in the university Learning about power in and beyond the classroom. In: University – Power – Knowledge: Postcolonial, Feminist, and Participatory Perspectives in the Context of Academic Teaching. Springer.
Newspaper Article
Contesting Cares in the Staff-Student Solidarity Network
Breeze M & McDove C (2023) Contesting Cares in the Staff-Student Solidarity Network. The Sociological Review Magazine. 2023.
Book Chapter
Breeze M & Leigh D (2023) WAGES AGAINST INCLUSION! FULL INCLUSION NOW! Towards a queer manifesto against LGBT+ inclusion in universities. In: Queer Sharing in the Marketized University. Routledge.
Article
Breeze M, Gorringe H, Jamieson L & Rosie M (2023) Educational outcomes of political participation? Young first-time voters 3 years after the Scottish Independence Referendum. Journal of Youth Studies, 26 (1), pp. 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1980517
Edited Book
The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education
Breeze M, Addison M & Taylor Y (eds.) (2022) The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86570-2
Book Chapter
Situating Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education
Breeze M, Addison M & Taylor Y (2022) Situating Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. In: The Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86570-2_1
Book Chapter
Imposter Agony Aunts: Ambivalent Feminist Advice
Breeze M, Taylor Y & Addison M (2022) Imposter Agony Aunts: Ambivalent Feminist Advice. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing, pp. 611-630. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86570-2_37
Authored Book
Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories
Breeze M & Taylor Y (2020) Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53661-9
Editorial
Themed Issue - Higher Education: Ongoing Contestations and Ambivalent Feminist Investments
Breeze M (2020) Themed Issue - Higher Education: Ongoing Contestations and Ambivalent Feminist Investments. Gender and Education, 32 (7). https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1805143
Article
All imposters in the university? Striking (out) claims on academic Twitter
Taylor Y & Breeze M (2020) All imposters in the university? Striking (out) claims on academic Twitter. Women's Studies International Forum, 81, p. 102367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102367
Article
Feminist collaborations in higher education: stretched across career stages
Breeze M & Taylor Y (2020) Feminist collaborations in higher education: stretched across career stages. Gender and Education, 32 (3), pp. 412-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2018.1471197
Article
Breeze M, Johnson K & Uytman C (2020) What (and who) works in widening participation? Supporting direct entrant student transitions to higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 25 (1), pp. 18-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2018.1536042
Edited Book
Time and Space in the Neoliberal University: Futures and fractures in higher education
Breeze M, Taylor Y & Costa C (eds.) (2019) Time and Space in the Neoliberal University: Futures and fractures in higher education. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15246-8
Book Chapter
Introduction: Time and Space in the Neoliberal University
Breeze M, Taylor Y & Costa C (2019) Introduction: Time and Space in the Neoliberal University. In: Time and Space in the Neoliberal University. Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15246-8_1
Book Chapter
Women's roller derby as a unique, gendered sports context
Breeze M (2018) Women's roller derby as a unique, gendered sports context. In: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Sport. Common Ground Publishing.
Book Chapter
Imposter Syndrome as a Public Feeling
Breeze M (2018) Imposter Syndrome as a Public Feeling. In: Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University: Feminist Flights, Fights, and Failures. Springer International Publishing, pp. 191-219. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64224-6_9
Editorial
Futures and fractures in feminist and queer higher education
Breeze M & Taylor Y (2018) Futures and fractures in feminist and queer higher education. Journal of Applied Social Theory, 1 (2).
Article
Becoming independent: political participation and youth transitions in the Scottish referendum
Breeze M, Gorringe H, Jamieson L & Rosie M (2017) Becoming independent: political participation and youth transitions in the Scottish referendum. The British Journal of Sociology, 68 (4), pp. 754-774. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12288
Project Report
MacInnes J & Breeze M (2016) Measuring up: international case studies on the teaching of quantitative methods in the social sciences. Report to the British Academy.. British Academy. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/quantitative-skills-measuring-up/
Authored Book
Seriousness and Women’s Roller Derby
Breeze M (2015) Seriousness and Women’s Roller Derby. Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504852
Article
Breeze M, Gorringe H, Jamieson L & Rosie M (2015) ‘Everybody's Scottish at the end of the day’: Nationalism and Social Justice Amongst Young Yes Voters. Scottish Affairs, 24 (4), pp. 419-431. https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2015.0094
Thesis
Just a big sexy joke? Getting taken seriously in women's roller derby
Breeze M (2014) Just a big sexy joke? Getting taken seriously in women's roller derby. PhD Sociology. University of Edinburgh. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9845
Article
Researching DIY Cultures: Towards a situated ethical practice
Breeze M, Downes J & Griffin N (2013) Researching DIY Cultures: Towards a situated ethical practice. Graduate Journal of Social Science, 10 (3), pp. 100-124.
Article
Analysing ‘Seriousness’ in Roller Derby: Speaking Critically with the Serious Leisure Perspective
Breeze M (2013) Analysing ‘Seriousness’ in Roller Derby: Speaking Critically with the Serious Leisure Perspective. Sociological Research Online, 18 (4), pp. 237-249. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.3236
Article
There’s No Balls in Derby: Roller Derby as a Unique Gendered Sports Context
Breeze M (2010) There’s No Balls in Derby: Roller Derby as a Unique Gendered Sports Context. Breeze M (Project Leader) The International Journal of Sport and Society, 1 (3), pp. 121-134. https://doi.org/10.18848/2152-7857/cgp/v01i03/54028
Working Paper
Analysing young women’s experiences of hidden gendered power in heterosexual relationships
Breeze M (2009) Analysing young women’s experiences of hidden gendered power in heterosexual relationships. Edinburgh Sociology Working Papers.