Dr Jane Booth
Contact Details
School of Social Justice and InclusionFaculty of Education and Training
Tel: (01267) 676921 (6921)
E-mail: j.booth@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk
Location
1st Floor, Dewi Building
Campus
Carmarthen CampusJob Title
Lecturer
Role in the University
Jane is a Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Social Justice and Inclusion.
Background
PhD in Politics. Oxford Brookes University.
Further and Adult Education Teaching Certificate
BSc. (Hons.) Politics and Psychology, Oxford Brookes University
Jane has previously lectured at Oxford Brookes University and The Open University. She has also managed projects in the voluntary sector, running the ‘Parent Participation Project’ at TreeHouse - the National Charity for Autism Education in England - and the ‘Women in Governance’ Project at Ricmond Council for Voluntary Service.
Academic Interests
Jane’s research interests have focussed on the politics of identity and social change, with a particular interest on how communities become disengaged from political and social life.
Jane’s most recent research has focussed on parent carers of children with disabilities, and looked at the benefits and barriers to greater parent carer involvement in service provision.
Publications
‘Globalisation and the Politics of Identity in Europe’ (with Ben Rosamond), in J. Lovenduski & J. Stanyer (eds) Contemporary Political Studies 1995 (Belfast: Political Studies Association, 1995)
‘Reflexive Modernization and the Transformation of Identities: Management Education and Systemic Change in Poland’ (with Barrie Axford), in V. Edwards (ed.) Central and Eastern Europe: 5 Years On (Chalfont St. Giles: Buckinghamshire College, 1995)
‘Who on Earth are "We"? Globalisation, Locality and Identity’ (with Ben Rosamond), in B. Axford & G. Browning (eds) Modernity>Postmodernity: From the Personal to the Global (Oxford: Thamesman, 1996)
Review article on Transformation in East-Central Europe, Political Studies 44/5 (1996)
‘The Transformation of Identity-Narratives in a Global Cultural Economy: The Case of Polish Indigenization’ , in F. Brinkhuise & S. Talmor (eds.) Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium, Proceedings of fifth conference of ISSEI, MIT Press (1998)
Good Governance Guide, RCVS, 2007.
Shaping Children’s Services Together, TreeHouse, 2010
