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Dr Matt Badcock
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Matt is the Head of Sociology at Leeds Beckett University and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His teaching and research interests are in data visualisation, mobilities and public sociology.
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Matt is the Head of Sociology at Leeds Beckett University and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His teaching and research interests are in data visualisation, mobilities and public sociology.
Matt is the Head of Sociology at Leeds Beckett University and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His teaching and research interests are in data visualisation, mobilities and public sociology.
Matt completed his PhD on the process of democratisation and political modernisation in Britain in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester. Prior to Leeds Beckett he was Course Director for Sociology at Birmingham City University; during which time he established the first degree in the UK focused on public sociology. His teaching and research focuses on data visualisation and mobilities and public sociology.
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Research interests
Matt's research interests are in data visualisation and mobilities - that is, the movement of people and things, as well as the broader social implications of those movements. He is particularly interested in how data originally produced for another purpose can be captured, reused and visualised in ways help us understand how society is changing. His current research uses airline and airport passenger data to look at how and why people are moving around the European Union and how this has changed over time.
Publications (4)
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Staying connected
Staying Connected: Low Cost Airlines in the Lives of Polish Migrants
24 June 2022
Low-Cost Aviation: Society, Culture and Environment Elsevier
Authors: Badcock M, Burrell K, Editors: Lin W, Frétigny J-BThe book explores the changing nature of passengers' profiles and mobile cultures, new consumption patterns and Economic Re-Configurations, as well as geopolitical and sustainability challenges.
Sociology and the Public(s): Using Public Sociology to Rework Student Engagement Beyond the University
Freedom in the skies: secondary mobility and Brexit
02 October 2017
LSE Brexit Publisher
Badcock M, Burrell KThe right to move and work freely in the EU is a key point of contestation in the Brexit negotiations. But what effect will leaving the EU have on the ways and means in which EU migrants keep in touch with their relatives? Kathy Burrell (University of Liverpool) and Matt Badcock (Leeds Beckett University) explore the virtual and physical networks that EU enlargement enabled – especially the flights opened up by Open Skies – and the way they have shaped migrants’ decisions about where to live and work.
Current teaching
Matt leads the level 5 modules Visualising Urban Inequalities and Exploring Social Research and the level 6 Sociology Dissertation module.
