Dr Stewart Muir
Research Associate
Email: stewart.muir@manchester.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 161 275 7852
Before joining the Sociology Department in April 2006, I studied and taught at La Trobe University and worked as an Aboriginal cultural heritage consultant in southeast Australia. I am currently Research Associate on the Inter/Generational Dynamics project within the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Realities node. I am also a member of the Morgan Centre and am co-convenor of the Pacific Interest Group.
Research interests
- The ethnography of urban, suburban, and domestic places
- Private and family 'traditions'
- Public events and rituals
- Indigenous and settler life in southeast Australia
- New age and alternative spiritualities
- Cultural appropriation and intellectual property