University of Salford

Faculty Member, Sociology and Criminology

Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology

College of Arts & Social Sciences

About

Twitter: @CultSociologist

Garry Crawford's teaching and research focus primarily on audiences, fan cultures, video gamers and sport. He is the author of 'Consuming Sport' (Routledge 2004), 'Video Gamers' (Routledge 2011) and the co-author of the second edition of 'Introducing Cultural Studies' (Pearson 2008, with B. Longhurst, G. Smith, G. Bagnall, & M. Ogborn), 'the Sage Dictionary of Leisure Studies' (Sage 2009, with T. Blackshaw), and co-editor of 'Online Gaming in Context' (Routledge 2011, with V. Gosling & B. Light). Garry is Publications Director of the British Sociological Association (BSA), and review editor for the journal 'Cultural Sociology'.

Current PhD Students:
• Kath Leflay (females fans & sport) (co-supervised with T. Blackshaw, Sheffield Hallam)
• Jerry Coulton (airport spaces, control & regulation) (co-supervised with G. Smith)
• Rhianne Jones (uses of Social Networking Sites) (co-supervised with B. Light)
• Ira Yusof (Malaysian fans of English football) (co-supervised with G. McKay)
• Michael Dowd (Privacy & the Internet) (co-supervised with A. Adam)
• Ying-Ying Law (video gamer culture) (co-supervised with V.K. Gosling)

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