Dr Frankie Rogan BA, MA, PhD, SFHEA

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2022

• PhD Political Science and International Studies (Sociology), University of Birmingham, 2018

• MA in Political Theory, University of Birmingham, 2011

Frankie joined the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology in 2017. She is now an Associate Professor in Sociology and the current Head of Education for the School of Social Policy and Society.

Her research interests include gender, sexuality, postfeminism and digital culture. She was awarded her PhD at the University of Birmingham. Her thesis explored girls’ and young women’s relationship to social media platforms, and was later written up as a monograph entitled Digital Femininities: The Gendered Construction of Cultural and Political Identities Online.

Frankie currently leads the second year undergraduate Gender and Sexuality module in the department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology.

Frankie currently supervises PhD projects in the areas of gender, sexuality and digital culture. Frankie also supervises dissertations on the MRes Sexuality and Gender Studies.