Gavin Bailey - a short CV
Education
2007 - 2010 PhD University of Keele
Community, Politics and 'Extremism'
Supervised by David Gadd, this is a study of neighbourhood politics in two deprived areas of a northern city, where some community activists are deemed 'extremist'. I ask how local community engagement and cohesion are affected by the national discourse on the threat of extremism. This is supported by the ESRC, award no. PTA-030-2006-00063.
Papers presented:
‘Second Class Citizens’: Multicultural citizenship in the ‘shadow state’
Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (annual conference): April 2007
Ordinary Islamists: The War on Terror and the shadow-state
Terrorism and Migration conference, Southampton: November 2007
Citizenship for all: including the BNP in the neighbourhood polity
Political Studies Association (annual conference): April 2009
2004 - 2006 MPhil Goldsmiths College, University of London
Community, Politics and 'Extremism'
Prior to joining Keele, I studied part-time at Goldsmiths, supervised by Les Back. This included attending ESRC research training courses.
Paper presented: What is Community? What is Politics? Re(creating) Methodologies, Practices, Concepts, International New Scholars Symposium, 1-3 September 2005, Goldsmiths College.
1999 - 2001 MA Globalisation, Culture and the City Distinction Goldsmiths College, University of London
1992 - 1995 BA Mathematics / History and Philosophy of Science 2:2 Clare College, University of Cambridge
Recent Work
2008 - 2009 Research Assistant Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University
Organised and conducted interviews and focus groups with migrants who were going through the citizenship process and those who are responsible for this process. This work was done with Dr Sherilyn MacGregor and Professor Andy Dobson.
2004 - 2006 Research Officer Community Development Foundation
Responsible for the evaluation of the Neighbourhood Support Fund, a programme of community-based youth projects aimed at teenagers at risk of exclusion. The Community Development Foundation, a non-departmental public body, ran 130 projects in 40 deprived areas of England.
2006 Stoke-on-Trent Case Study Research The Young Foundation
A short study of attitudes to racism and politics in Stoke-on-Trent to contribute to the Young Foundation's forthcoming report.
2005 - 2006 Positive Futures Case Studies CUCR, Goldsmiths College
Contributing to the evaluation of Positive Futures (a sports-based programme for teenagers), alongside Tim Crabbe / Substance, Goldsmiths, Sheffield Hallam and Manchester Met.
2003 - 2004 Project Manager Vision Twenty One
Responsible for research projects, from proposal to report writing stage, for a range of public and voluntary sector clients. These were mainly focused on hard-to-reach groups.
2002 - 2003 Analyst The Future Foundation
Other stuff
Community/music/football/cycling
Community activities include chairing a residents' association (2009), writing for the London Cycling Campaign (2006), and running Clissold Thistle, an 11-a-side Sunday team in the Camden Musicians' League (2003-6). I also DJed regularly in small/medium sized venues in Stoke, Cambridge and London in the 90s and was Stawberry Fair's press officer too, but six years running record shops (Record and Tape Exchange, Notting Hill) dampened my enthusiasm. I've recently come back to music, doing a semi-regular night in Keele.