Professor Brian Heaphy
Senior Lecturer
Email:brian.heaphy@manchester.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 161 275 0266
I joined Manchester University in 2005. Before that, I held lectureships at the University of Leeds and Nottingham Trent University, and was a research fellow at London South Bank University.
Research interests
My theoretical and research interests are focused on personal life as it concerns identities, relationships and forms of existence. Most recently, I have been interested in theories of social and cultural change, and in arguments about the contemporary reconfiguration of social and personal life. I critically engage with key examples of such theories and arguements in my book Late Modernity and Social Change. I have researched the implications of social change for personal life through ESRC funded projects on sexualities, gender, families and intimacies and ageing. I have also researched the social aspects of AIDS. With colleagues, I am currently undertaking ESRC funded research on Civil Partnerships, and on Realities which is part of the ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods.
Books
Late Modernity and Social Change: Reconstructing Social and Personal Life, Heaphy, B (2007) London: Routledge. Buy on Amazon [new window]
Same Sex Intimacies: Families of choice and other life experiments, Weeks, J, Heaphy, B and Donovan, C (2001) London: Routledge. Buy on Amazon [new window].
Selected Journal Articles
'Gay identities and the culture of class', Heaphy, B, Sexualities February 2011, vol. 14, no. 1, 42-62 View article online [new window]
'Choice and its limits in older lesbian and gay narratives of relational life', Heaphy, B Journal of GLBT Family Studies - Special Issue: Older GLBT Family and Community Life (January 2009) Volume 5, Issue 1&2: 119/138 Publishers copyright statement [new window]
'The Sociology of Lesbian and Gay Reflexivity or Reflexive Sociology?', Heaphy, B Sociological Research Online (March 2008) Volume 13, Issue 1 View article online [new window]
‘Sexualities, gender and ageing: Resources and social change’ Current Sociology – Special Issue on Ageing, Vol. 55 (2): 193-210 (March 2007) View article online [new window].
'Policy implications of ageing sexualities', Heaphy, B and Yip, A (2006) Social Policy and Society 5 (4): 443-451. View article online [new window].
‘Ageing in a Non-heterosexual Context’ Heaphy, B, Yip, A and Thompson, D, Ageing and Society (2004) 24: 881-902.© Cambridge University Press. Publisher's copyright statement [new window].
‘Uneven possibilities: Non-heterosexual ageing and the implications of detraditionalisation’, Heaphy, B and Yip, A, Sociological Research Online (2003) 8(4)
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/4/heaphy.html [new window]
‘The social and policy implications of non-heterosexual ageing – selective findings’, Heaphy, B, Yip, A and Thompson, D Quality and Ageing: Policy, Practice and Research (2003) 4 (3): 30-35.
'Citizenship and Same Sex Relationships', Donovan, C, Heaphy, B and Weeks, J Journal of Social Policy (1999) 28(4): 689-709. View publisher's copyright statement [new window].
'"That's like my life": researching stories of non-heterosexual relationships', Heaphy, B, Donovan, C and weeks, J Sexualities (1998) 1(4): 453-470. Article available to order online at Sage Publications [new window] .
Selected Reports and Chapters in books
'Critical Relational Displays' Heaphy, B. in Dermott, E. and Seymour, J. (eds) Displaying Families. London Palgrave (2011)
'Lesbian and gay lives over 50', Heaphy, B, Yip, A and Thompson, D (2003) York House Publications, Nottingham Trent University. ISBN 8976500132.
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‘A different affair? Openness and non-monogamy in same sex relationships’ Heaphy, B, Donovan, C and Weeks, J in JG Duncombe, K Harrison, G Allan, and D Marsden (eds) State of Affairs (2004). Erlbaum.
‘Lesbian and Gay Families’, Weeks, J, Heaphy , B and Donovan, C in M Richards (ed) Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families (2004) Blackwell.
'The (im)possibilities of living with AIDS: Incorporating death into everyday life' in Sarah Cunningham-Burley et al (eds) Exploring the Body (2001) Macmillan.
'Sex, money and the kitchen sink: Power in same-sex couple relationships' Heaphy, B, Donovan, C, and Weeks, J in S Jackson and S Scott (eds) Gender; A Sociological Reader (2001) Routledge.
'Living with death' in J Rutherford (ed) The Art of Life (2000) Lawrence and Wishart.
Current PhD students
Past PhD students
Darren Sharpe (full-time) 'Black men’s negotiations of multiply marginalized identities' (Nottingham Trent University, supervised with Cecile Wright and Hugh Miller)
Martin Mitchell (full-time, ESRC funded) 'The implications of same sex relationships and health policy and service provision' (London South Bank University, supervised with Jeffrey Weeks)
Andrew Cooper (part-time) 'Negotiating gay male identities (London South Bank University, supervised with Jeffrey Weeks)
Michael Keenan (full-time, ESRC funded) 'An exploration of gay male cleric’s negotiation of their sexual, spiritual, and professional lives' (Nottingham Trent University, supervised with Andrew Yip)
Ekundayo IIugbuhi (full-time) ‘Adolescent Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Kabba, Kogi State, Nigeria’ (Director of studies, supervised with Dr Penny Tinkler)
Paul Simpson (full-time) 'Gay Male Ageing and Mid-life' (Director of Studies, supervised with Dr Wendy Bottero)
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Courses taught
- Gender, Sexuality and Culture (year 2, undergraduate)
- Methodological Issues in Sociological Research (postgraduate)
- Year 3 undergraduate dissertation course