Simon Stewart
Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change
Simon Stewart is a Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for European and International Studies Research at University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the Principal Investigator on an 18-month ESRC/UKRI funded project, 'Homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic: homeless migrants in a global crisis'. He is also the Impact Lead for University of Portsmouth's REF entry for Area Studies. Before arriving at Portsmouth in 2008, he worked as a Fellow in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He completed his doctorate at University of Sussex (2006), where he also taught a wide range of courses. Prior to that, he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Postmodernism, Literature and Contemporary Culture (1996, Royal Holloway), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology (1995, Portsmouth). In 2015 and 2017, Simon was the external examiner for PhDs at La Trobe University (Australia). He is the co-coordinator of the Sociology of Culture Research Network of the European Sociological Association.
Simon's research expertise is primarily in cultural sociology/sociology of culture and, in particular, the sociology of evaluative judgements. He is the author of Culture and the Middle Classes (Ashgate, 2010). His second single-authored monograph, A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value.