Dr Magali Peyrefitte
Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Deviance
Marie Jahoda 213
- Email: magali.peyrefitte@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265795
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Dr Magali Peyrefitte completed a PhD in Sociology (ESRC 1+3) from the University of Nottingham in 2011. After having worked at Middlesex University as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Sociology, she joined Brunel University in August 2019.
With expertise in the social sciences at the cross-road between urban sociology and urban criminology and in addressing questions regarding home, housing and communities, Dr Magali Peyrefitte is interested in issues of social harm and social justice in the city. In recent years, her more recent research projects have been focusing on the socio-economic and cultural changes that are transforming the suburbs of London. Overall, her work has been focusing on the multi-faceted aspects of gentrification and regeneration in London- in Soho as well as in the suburban boroughs of Barnet, Harrow and Brent - and their impact on local communities. She has also paid particular attention to the question of Social Value and the role of the VCSE sector in urban regeneration projects.
She has worked on a number of research projects using visual and creative methods to collect and to find alternative and artful ways of disseminating her research in order to engage a wide range of audiences notably using photography to do so. For instance, she organised a portrait exhibition as part of a project on women in suburbia in France: (http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2015/12/25/2244576-exposition-a-l-espace-germaine-chaumel.html).
Finally, her teaching is directly informed by her research interests while also being committed to teaching focused research. She has subsequently been working on a pedagogic scholarship published in international peer-reviewed journals and built around evaluations and reflections of her teaching.
Qualifications
PhD, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
MA in Photography, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
MA in Research Methods (ESRC 1+3), Nottingham University, United Kingdom
MA in Contemporary British Society, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
PGCE, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
Newest selected publications
Peyrefitte, M. (2023) 'Methodological dilemmas or promises? The sociological imagination and globalization', in Karner, C. and Hofäcker, D. (eds.) Research Handbook on the Sociology of Globalization. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 25 - 32. ISBN 10: 1-83910-157-1. ISBN 13: 978-1-83910-156-4. Open Access Link
Hager, T. and Peyrefitte, M. (2021) 'Resisting the managed and fragmented selves in academia: Collaborative autoethnographies about modulations of control and surveillance in the neoliberal classroom'. Women's Studies International Forum, 88. pp. 102502 - 102502. ISSN: 0277-5395
Peyrefitte, M. (2021) 'Writing and exhibiting a ‘live’ and convivial sociology: Portraiture and women’s lived experiences of a French suburb'. Sociological Review, 69 (6). pp. 1195 - 1213. ISSN: 0038-0261 Open Access Link
Peyrefitte, M. (2020) 'Suburban Verticalisation in London: Regeneration, Intra-urban Inequality, and Social Harm'. Criminological Encounters, 3 (1). pp. 1 - 19.Open Access Link
Peyrefitte, M. (2019) 'Walking methodologies in a more-than-human world: Walking lab'. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 19 (2). pp. 1 - 2. ISSN: 1478-0887 Open Access Link