Research Fellow, In Certain Places, School of Art, Design and Fashion
School of Arts and Media
Time, Place and Culture, Waste and Sustainability (Culture, History), Cultural Memory, Popular Music (Artistic aspects), Media Technology
John Scanlan is a cultural historian, analyst and practitioner whose work is concerned with: (i) Social and Cultural Transformations; (ii) Temporal Experience in Modern Society; (iii) Creative Practice and Cultural Change.
He is the author of eight books and has published articles in a number of academic journals, including History of the Human Sciences, Photographies, Places, Time & Society, Techniques & Culture, Space and Culture, as well as in edited volumes such as The Acoustic City and Recycler l’Urbain.
His work has appeared in Italian, French, Croatian and Arabic translations. He has spoken about his work on national and international media, including BBC Four TV, BBC Radio 3’s ‘Night Waves’, ABC National Radio in Australia and the BBC World Service.
As an academic, he taug
more...John Scanlan is a cultural historian, analyst and practitioner whose work is concerned with: (i) Social and Cultural Transformations; (ii) Temporal Experience in Modern Society; (iii) Creative Practice and Cultural Change.
He is the author of eight books and has published articles in a number of academic journals, including History of the Human Sciences, Photographies, Places, Time & Society, Techniques & Culture, Space and Culture, as well as in edited volumes such as The Acoustic City and Recycler l’Urbain.
His work has appeared in Italian, French, Croatian and Arabic translations. He has spoken about his work on national and international media, including BBC Four TV, BBC Radio 3’s ‘Night Waves’, ABC National Radio in Australia and the BBC World Service.
As an academic, he taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Paisley, Bristol and at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) between 1998 and 2015. At MMU he was also Acting Director of the Centre for Transitions in Society and Space (CTSS) between 2011 and 2013, and co-led its cross-faculty submission within the Sociology Unit of Assessment to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014.
Prior to that he was a member of the AHRC Centre for Environmental History at the University of St Andrews (2003 to 2007), where his work formed part of a REF 2014 impact study, which was titled ‘Science, Waste and Environment: Informing a Sustainable Future through an Examination of the Past’.
Scanlan is also the co-founder and series editor of Reaktion’s ‘Reverb’ series of books, which has – since 2010 – commissioned some two dozen titles.
He holds degrees in Philosophy (MA Hons, Glasgow, 1994) and Social Science Research (MPhil, Glasgow, 1998) and obtained his PhD in 2001 from the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow.