Professor Susan Halford | Social Sciences | University of Southampton

Susan Halford

MA, PhD, ACSS

Primary position:: Head of the Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Other positions:: Co-Director of the Work Futures Research Centre, Co-Director, Web Science Institute

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Background

I have a background in Geography (which I studied at the University of Sussex 1981-4) and Urban Studies (also at Sussex 1985-1990) and moved into Sociology when I joined the University of Southampton in 1992. Since this time I have developed a range of research around the themes of gender, work, and identity and - connected to this - exploring digital innovation in the workplace, and beyond particularly through Web Science in collaboration with colleagues in Health Sciences and Computer Sciences (see Research).

I am currently Head of the Division of Sociology and Social Policy, which runs undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Sociology & Criminology, combined with Social Policy and Anthropology.

"My research interests span the sociology of work and organization and the sociology of technology - particularly the Web - and I'm especially interested in how the Web is changing working lives and organizations."

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Article

Tinati, Ramine, Halford, Susan, Carr, Leslie and Pope, Catherine (2014) Big data: methodological challenges and approaches for sociological analysis. Sociology, 48, (4), 663-681. (doi:10.1177/0038038513511561 ).

Prichard, J., Turnbull, J., Halford, S. and Pope, C. (2014) Trusting technical change in call centres. Work, Employment & Society, 1-17. (doi:10.1177/0950017013510763).

Pope, Catherine, Halford, Susan, Turnbull, J. and Prichard, Jane S. (2014) Cyborg practices: call-handlers and computerised decision support systems in urgent and emergency care. Health Informatics Journal, 20, (2), 118-126. (doi:10.1177/1460458213486470). (PMID:24810726).

Tinati, Ramine, Carr, Leslie, Halford, Susan and Pope, Catherine (2014) (Re)Integrating the Web: beyond ‘socio-technical’. World Wide Web, 1-2. (doi:10.1145/2567948.257695).

Welch, Jennifer R., Halford, Susan and Weal, Mark J. (2013) Conceptualising the Web for post-conflict governance building in fragile states. Peacebuilding, 1-13. (Submitted).

Halford, Susan, Pope, Catherine and Weal, Mark J. (2013) Digital futures? Sociological challenges and opportunities in the emergent semantic web. Sociology, 47, (1), 173-189. (doi:10.1177/0038038512453798 ).

Pope, Catherine, Halford, Susan, Turnbull, Joanne, Prichard, Jane S., Calestani, Melania and May, Carl (2013) Using computer decision support systems in NHS emergency and urgent care: ethnographic study using normalisation process theory. BMC Health Services Research, 13, 111. (doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-111).

Turnbull, Joanne, Prichard, Jane, Pope, Catherine, Halford, Susan and Salisbury, Chris (2012) Reconfiguring the emergency and urgent care workforce: mixed methods study of skills and the everyday work of non-clinical call-handlers in the NHS. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 17, (4), 233-240. (doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2012.011141). (PMID:23024183).

Halford, Susan, Lotherington, Ann Therese, Dyb, Kari and Obstfelder, Aud (2010) Un/doing gender with ICT? NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Studies, 18, (1), 20-37. (doi:10.1080/08038741003626791).

Halford, S., Obstfelder, A. and Lotherington AT Dyb, K. (2010) Getting the Whole Picture? New information and communication technologies in healthcare work and organization. Information, Communication and Society, 13, (3)

Halford, Susan and Savage , Mike (2010) Reconceptualizing digital social inequality. Information, Communication & Society, 13, (7), 937-955. (doi:10.1080/1369118X.2010.499956 ).

Halford, Susan, Obstfelder, Aud and Lotherington, Anne-Therese (2010) Changing the record: the inter-professional, subjective and embodied effects of electronic patient records. New Technology, Work and Employment, 25, (3), 210-222. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-005X.2010.00249.x).

Halford, Susan, Obstfelder, Aud and Lotherington, Ann Therese (2009) Beyond implementation and resistance: how the delivery of ICT policy is reshaping healthcare. Policy & Politics, 37, (1), 113-128. (doi:10.1332/030557308X313714).

Halford, Susan and Strangleman, Tim (2009) In search of the sociology of work: past, present and future. Sociology , 43, (5), 811 -828. (doi:10.1177/0038038509341307).

Dyb, Kari and Halford, Susan (2009) Sociology. Placing globalizing technologies: telemedicine and the making of difference, 43, (2), 232-249. (doi:10.1177/0038038508101163).

Dyb, Kari and Halford, Susan (2009) Placing globalizing technologies: telemedicine and the making of difference. Sociology, 43, (2), 232-249. (doi:10.1177/0038038508101163).

Halford, Susan (2008) Sociologies of space, work and organization: from fragments to spatial theory. Sociology Compass, 2, (3), 925-943. (doi:10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00104.x).

Halford, Susan (2006) Gender performance and organizational change: a narrative analysis of nursing identities. Travail, Genre et Societies

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2006) Place, Space and Time: The fragmentation of workplace subjectivities. Organizational Studies, 27, (5), 657-676. (doi:10.1177/0170840605059453).

Halford, Susan (2006) Collapsing the boundaries? Fatherhood, organization and home-working. Gender, Work and Organization, 13, (4), 383-402. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2006.00313.x).

Halford, Susan (2005) Hybrid workspace: re-spatialisations of work, organisation and management. New Technology, Work and Employment, 20, (1), 19-33. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-005X.2005.00141.x).

Halford, Susan and Knowles, Caroline (2005) More than words: some reflections on working visually. Sociological Research Online, 10, (1)

Halford, Susan (2004) Towards a sociology of organizational space. Sociological Research Online, 9, (1)

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2003) Space and place in the construction and performance of gendered nursing identities. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 42, (2), 201-208. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02601.x).

Halford, Susan (2003) Gender and organisational restructuring in the National Health Service: performance, identity and politics. Antipode, 35, (2), 286-308. (doi:10.1111/1467-8330.00324).

Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (1995) Restructuring organisations, changing people: gender and restructuring in banking and local government. Work, Employment & Society, 9, (1), 97-122. (doi:10.1177/095001709591004).

Halford, S. and Fielding, A. (1993) The geography of opportunity: an analysis of gender-specific occupational mobilities in England and Wales 1971-1981. Environment and Planning A, 25, (10), 1421-1440.

Halford, S., Goodwin, M. and Duncan, S. (1993) Regulation theory, the local state and transition of urban politics. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 11, (1), 67-88.

Brownill, Sue and Halford, Susan (1990) Understanding women's involvement in local politics: how useful is a formal/informal dichotomy? Political Geography Quarterly, 9, (4), 396-414. (doi:10.1016/0260-9827(90)90036-A).

Halford, Susan (1989) Spatial divisions and women's initiatives in British local government. Geoforum, 20, (2), 161-174. (doi:10.1016/0016-7185(89)90037-7).

Halford, Susan (1988) Women's initiatives in local government … where do they come from and where are they going? Policy and Politics, 16, (4), 251-260. (doi:10.1332/030557388782454957).

Duncan, Simon, Goodwin, Mark and Halford, Susan (1988) Policy variations in local states: uneven development and local social relations. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 12, (1), 107-128.

Halford, Susan, Duncan, Simon and Goodwin, Mark (1987) Politikmuster im lokalen Staat: Ungleiche Entwicklung und lokale soziale Verhaltnisse. Prokla, 68, 8-27.

Book

Schroeder, Anna, Miles, Andrew, Savage, Mike, Halford, Susan and Tampubolon, Gindo (2008) Mobility, careers and inequalities: a study of work-life mobility and the returns from education, Manchester, UK, Equality and Human Rights Commission, 93pp. (EHRC Research Report, 8).

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2006) Negotiating gendered identities at work: place, space and time, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 208pp.

Cooke, Lorelei, Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2003) Racism in the medical profession: the experience of UK graduates, London, UK, British Medical Association, Health Policy and Economic Research Unit, 22pp.

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2001) Gender, Power and Organisations, Palgrave Macmillan, 288pp.

Exworthy, Mark and Halford, Susan (eds.) (1998) Professionals and the new managerialism in the public sector, Maidenhead, UK, Open University Press

Halford, Susan, Savage, Mike and Witz, Anne (1997) Gender, careers and organisations: current developments in banking, nursing and local government, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 304pp.

Book Section

Halford, Susan and Fielding, Tony (2000) A longitudinal and regional analysis of gender-specific social and spatial mobilities in England and Wales 1981-91. In, Boyle, Paul and Halfacree, Keith (eds.) Migration and Gender in the Developed World. London, UK, Routledge, 30-54. (Routledge Research in Population and Migration).

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (1998) New identities? Professionalism, managerialism and the construction of self. In, Exworthy, Mark and Halford, Susan (eds.) Professionals and the New Managerialism in the Public Sector. Buckingham, UK, Open University Press, 102-121.

Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (1997) Rethinking restructuring: embodiment, agency and identity in organizational change. In, Lee, Roger and Wills, Jane (eds.) Geographies of Economies. UK, Arnold.

Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (1995) The bureaucratic career: demise of adaptation? In, Butler, Tim (ed.) Social Change and the Middle Classes. Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 117-132.

Witz, Ann, Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (1995) Organised bodies: gender, sexuality and embodiment in contemporary organisations. In, Adkins, L. and Merchant, V. (eds.) Sexualising the Social: Power and the Organisation of Sexuality. Basingstoke, UK, Macmillan, 173-191. (Explorations in Sociology 47).

Halford, Susan (1993) Feminist change in a patriarchal organisation: the experience of women's initiatives in local government and implications for feminist perspectives on state institutions. In, Savage, Mike and Witz, Anne (eds.) Gender and Bureaucracy. London, UK, Blackwell. (Sociological Review Monographs, 40).

Halford, Susan (1991)

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