Staff Profile

Emma Seddon is a Research Associate in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow.

She is working on the project: Gendered Journeys: the trajectories of STEM students and graduates through higher education and into employment, in India and Rwanda, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council/Global Challenges Research Fund.

Emma recently completed her PhD in Sociology and Social Research at Newcastle University, and has disseminated her doctoral work at conferences in Europe and Canada.

Her research interests include:

• work, professionalism, entrepreneurialism and self-employment;
• gender, education and work;
• precarious and insecure work;
• technologies, education and work;
• mixed methods combing data science with qualitative explanatory tools.

Her prior research projects have been:

Newcastle University. Research Assistant on Politics project – Divorcing the European Union (Nov. 2019 – Feb. 2020)

Newcastle University. Lead Researcher on Student Engagement in Sociology project (Dec. 2018 – August 2019)

Durham University. Research Assistant on ESRC-funded project - Electoral violence in England and Wales 1832 – 1914. (Nov. 2018 – August 2019)

Selected Publications: 

Seddon, E. (2020) Urban Big Data Centre: "Gendered Journeys: mixing methods, datatypes, and contexts to explore gender in STEM" posted on 20 November 2020 https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news-media/2020/november/gendered-journeys/ 

Seddon, E. (2020) BSA Postgraduate Forum: "Resources for writing your PhD conclusion" posted on 17 March 2020 https://bsapgforum.wordpress.com/2020/03/17/resources-for-writing-your-phd-conclusion/ 

Seddon, E (2019) ‘The English language is evolving – here’s how it will change after Brexit’, published in The Conversation on July 4, 2019. 100,000+ reads. https://theconversation.com/the-english-language-is-evolving-heres-how-i...

Seddon, E. (2018) 'Exploring the social complexity of translation with assemblage thinking', in Kobus Marais & Reine Meylaerts (eds.) Complexity thinking in translation studies: methodological considerations. Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies. [Online]. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 104–127.

Seddon, E. (2018) The Sociological Review: “Book Review: The Craft of Writing in Sociology by Balmer and Murcott” posted on 10 December 2018 https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/book-review-the-craft-of-writing-in-sociology-by-balmer-and-murcott.html

Seddon, E. (2018) BSA Postgraduate Forum: “Surviving the XIX ISA World Congress 2018” posted on 5 Nov. 2018 https://bsapgforum.com/2018/11/05/surviving-the-xix-isa-world-congress-2018-emma-seddon/ 

PGR Sociology @ Newcastle: “The Sociological Review’s 2018 conference: undisciplined and demonstrably alive” posted on 2 August 2018 https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/pgrsociology/2018/08/02/the-sociological-reviews-2018-conference-undisciplined-and-demonstrably-alive/