Oliver Smith
Teaching Fellow
Profile
Biography
I studied sociology at the University of York, graduating in 2002, before gaining an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies at Edinburgh University the following year. I returned to York in 2006, and completed my PhD in 2010. The title of my PhD is Late License: Contemporary Adulthood and the Night-Time Leisure Economy.
Teaching
Undergraduate
I am currently employed as a Teaching Fellow on the criminology pathway, where I am teaching on the Sociology of Crime and Deviance course and Crime, Culture and Social Change.
Research
Overview
My research interests are in the cultural and aesthetic attachments that (young) people form to night time alcohol-based leisure practices. I am particularly interested in the concomitant processes of the erosion of traditional adulthood, destabilisation of identity, cultural narcissism and infantilisation.
Contact details
oliver.smith@york.ac.uk