Lecturer in Applied Social Studies

I have taught on a number of Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses including: Research Methods and Media and Social Change: Race, Class and Ethnicity, Internet, Democracy and Society and Creative Entrepreneurship.

Other References

• Twitter: @joywhite2
• Independent Social Research Foundation: Joy White

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Greenwich
• MA, Cultural Studies University of East London
• Post Graduate Certificate in Education PGCE (FE), University of Greenwich
• BSc (Hons) University of North London

Research Interests

• Urban music
• Social mobility
• Urban marginality

Projects

• 'Crossing borders: Marginality and opportunity in contemporary British urban youth culture’ August 2017. Access here

Publications

• We need to talk about Newham: The east London Grime scene as a site of emancipatory disruption in Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London edited by Anna Minton, Alberto Duman, Dan Hancox and Malcolm James ISBN 978-1912248230
• The Business of Grime, Joy White, University of Leicester, 2018. Access here
• White, J., 2016 Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise, Routledge, Oxford, New York (160pp), ISBN: 9781138195462
• Joy White, 2016, Controlling the Flow: How Urban Music Videos Allow Creative Scope and Permit Social Restriction, Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research. Access here.
• Joy White, 2014, (In)visible entrepreneurs: Creative enterprise in the urban music economy, 3rd International Research Conference on Cultural and Creative Industries. Antwerp Management School, the University of Antwerp, Belgium and HKU University of the Arts (Utrecht), Netherlands
• Published in Beyond frames: Dynamics between the creative industries, knowledge institutions and the urban context, Annick Schramme, Rene Kooyman and Giep Hagoort, ISBN-10: 905972884X. ISBN-13: 978-9059728844 Antwerp
• Book Review: Inner City Pressure by Dan Hancox. Access here
• Podcast: Unpopped! The Roots and Representation of Grime. Access here
• Blog Post: Making music videos is not a criminal activity – no matter what genre. Access here

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 743055
E: joy.white@beds.ac.uk