In conversation with... is a series of events promoting interdisciplinary conversations among our Doctoral Researchers.
About the event
In this session, join PhD students Lorette Green and Mi Kim for an evening of wide-ranging discussion as they present the findings of their Doctoral research. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A session that explores the questions raised in their work, while also encouraging the speakers and audience to think about approaching research from an interdisciplinary angle.
In conversation with... is open to everyone. This event will take place online via Microsoft Teams. Please register via Eventbrite to secure your place. A link to join the meeting will be sent closer to the time.
Presentations
The extent to which family policy and ‘expert’ discourses of parenting impact on and shape working class mothering practices, by Lorette Green (School of Social Sciences)
This research aims to understand how family policy and ‘expert’ discourses of parenting impact upon and shape working-class mothering practices. ‘Good’ mothering is expected to remedy classed inequalities. Approaches fail to acknowledge structural inequalities, but this absence allows them to be ignored and attention instead focusses on mothers’ behaviour.
Lorette Green is a fourth-year PhD student in Sociology with a background in teaching, having undertaken a BA in Primary Education in her late twenties at Leeds Trinity University. In 2018 she completed a Master’s in Early Childhood Education at Canterbury Christchurch University.
Working-class consciousness in the United Kingdom and South Korea during the coronavirus crisis, by Mi Kim (School of Media and Communications)
This thesis investigates fake news and fact-checking based on class theory in the age of digital capitalism. Firstly, it discusses how false news has impacted working class consciousness in the pandemic era. Then, whether or not fact-checking platforms can help the contemporary working-class escape from the ideologies spread by false news is explored.
Mi Jung Kim is a Media Studies MPhil/PhD student at the University of Westminster. Her supervision team consists of Dr Dimitris Boucas, Dr Pieter Verdegem and Professor Christian Fuchs (external). She graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with MA in Media and Communications. She is a journalist covering Artificial Intelligence (AI) in South Korea.
