PhD University of Leeds

MA University of British Columbia

BA University of Calgary

Shelley took up a Lecturer position in Sociology at the University of Birmingham in 2003 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005. Prior to this appointment she was a Research Fellow in the department of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Leeds where she was awarded her PhD in Sociology. In 2010 she joined the Department of Political Science and International Studies.

Shelley contributes to teaching on level one Social Divisions, level two Gender and Sexuality, level two Global Societies and a level three module on the Family: Institution, Relationship and Myth.  In addition she contributes session on contemporary feminist theory to the MA module Social Theory: Contested Knowledges.  Shelley supervises undergraduate dissertations, MA dissertations and provides supervision for both MPhil and PhD students

Shelley would welcome research students interested in researching the following areas:

• New equality discourses and practices
• Gender relations, identity and ‘new’ feminities
• Gender and feminism
• Gender, neoliberalism and politics
• Postfeminism and gender equality
• intimacy and personal relationships

Research interests

• The relationship between gender, feminism and social change
• Postfeminism, neoliberalism and gender inequality
• Gender and individualisation
• Gendered subjectivities and identities
• Feminist theory
• Feminist method and epistemology
• Sexuality and personal relationships

Current and recent projects

Shelley is currently investigating contemporary gender equality discourses and their specific manifestation in policies such as the recently mandated Equality Act 2010 and Equality Duty  which embody a ‘modernized’ state sanctioned approach to gender issues. The aim of this project is to provide a critical account of how gender equality agendas have been imagined, formalized and contested over time. This analysis will focus on the meanings which are formally associated with the institutionalization of equality and those which emerge through the everyday practices and processes which constitute gendered interactions within organizations. This project will examine how gender and equality are constructed through multiple dynamics including those that are formal and direct alongside those which are more habitual or un-reflexive and those which are covert and strategic.

She has also researched the lived experiences of young women as they negotiate feminine identity within the context of individualisation and has engaged in debates regarding the impact of post-feminism both as a recuperative discourse and as a way to rethink feminist projects. Shelley has also researched the practices, values and significance associated with the provision of care in non-familial settings.

Other professional appointments

Editorial Boards

• Sociology Associate Editorial Board 2010

Professional Organisations

• British Sociological Association
• Feminist and Women’s Studies Association UK
• International Sociological Association
• C-SAP (Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) Gender Study Group

Budgeon, S. (2011) Third Wave Feminism and Gender Politics in Late Modernity. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Budgeon, S. (2010) “The Contradictions of Successful Femininity: Third Wave Feminism, Postfeminism and ‘New’ Femininities”, in Gill, Rosalind and Scharfe, Christina (eds.), New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Budgeon, S. (2008) “Couple Culture and Negotiating Singleness”, Sexualities, vol. 11(3):301-325.

Budgeon, S. (2006) “Friendship and Formations of Sociality in Late Modernity”, Sociological Research Online, volume 11, Issue 3, (http://www.socresonline.org.uk/11/3/budgeon.html). ISSN 1360-7804

Budgeon, S., and Roseneil, S (eds.). (2004) “Beyond the Conventional Family: Intimacy, Care, and Community in the 21st Century”, special issue of Current Sociology, vol. 52. no. 2. ISSN 0011-3921

Roseneil, S., and Budgeon, S. (2004) “Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond ‘The Family’: Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century”, Current Sociology, vol. 52. no. 2: 135-149. ISSN 0011-39210401797

Budgeon, S. (2003) Choosing a Self: Young Women and the Individualisation of Identity: Westport, CT: Praegar Publishing. 224 pages.  ISBN 0-275-97637

Budgeon, S. (2003) “Identity as an Embodied Event”, Body and Society. Vol. 9, no. 1:37-57. ISSN 1357-034X

Budgeon, S. (2001) “Emergent Feminist(?) Identities: Young Women and the Practice of Micropolitics”, The European Journal of Women’s Studies. Vol. 8, No. 1:7-28.  ISSN 1350-5068

Budgeon, S., and Currie, D. (1995) “From Feminism to Postfeminism: Women’s Liberation in Fashion Magazines”. Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp:  173 - 186. ISSN 0277-5395