Dr Luke Telford

• British Society of Criminology
• British Sociological Assocation
• (de)industrial Kent

• ESRC funded PhD: The New English Nationalism: Class, Culture and the Politics of the Future: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Post-industrial Northern Town – September 2017 – ongoing (passed viva on September 1^st and currently doing the minor corrections) – Teesside University
• MA in Social Research Methods (Criminology) – Distinction – Durham University
• BSc Criminology and Youth Studies – First – Teesside University
• EDEXCEL BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Sport (Development, Coaching and Fitness) - Distinction*, Distinction, Distinction – Prior Pursglove College

• Political Economy
• Working-class culture
• Post-war capitalism to neoliberalism
• Theoretical Criminology
• Politics

• Working-class culture
• Nationalism
• Labour Markets
• Illicit Substances
• Consumer Culture

Module Lead

• Global Sociology 1
• Doing Drugs: Policing Illegal Drug Use
• Discovering Qualitative Research Methods.

I also supervise undergraduate research dissertation projects and PhD students

Journal Articles

Briggs, D Telford, L Lloyd, A & Ellis, A (2021) Working, living and dying in COVID times: Perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK. Safer Communities. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/SC-04-2021-0013/full/html

Telford, L & Briggs, D (2021) Targets and Overwork: Neoliberalism and the maximization of profitability from the workplace. Capital & Class. 1-18. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/8NC82TTGDZ6MP6QNRQBF/full

Telford, L (2021) 'There is nothing there': Deindustrialization and loss in a coastal town. Competition & Change. Online First: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10245294211011300

Ellis, A Briggs, D Lloyd, A & Telford, L (2021) A ticking time bomb of future harm: lockdown, child abuse and future violence. Abuse: An International Impact Journal. 2(1): 37-48 -https://threequayspublishing.com/product/a-ticking-time-bomb-of-future-harm-lockdown-child-abuse-and-future-violence/

Briggs D Ellis A Lloyd A & Telford L (2020) New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. Online First: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJSSP-07-2020-0268/full/html

Telford L & Lloyd A (2020) From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town”: Industrial collapse and social harm in Teesside. Critical Criminology. 1-17 Online First: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-020-09523-3

Telford L & Wistow J (2019) Brexit and the working class on Teesside: Moving beyond reductionism. Capital & Class. 1-20 Online First: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0309816819873310

Books

Briggs, D Ellis, A Lloyd, A & Telford, L (2021) Researching the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Critical Blueprint for the Social Sciences. Bristol: Policy Press. (Due to be published on 1st July 2021).