Dr Nicola Carroll

Department of Sociological Studies

Teaching Associate

Dr Nicola Carroll
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n.carroll@sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave

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Dr Nicola Carroll
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

Nicola worked as a journalist specialising in public services and social issues and a consultant to non-profit organisations before beginning her doctoral research. She was awarded her PhD for research exploring experiences of single mothers in two locations in the North of England with contrasting socio-economic profiles in the context of welfare reform, fiscal austerity and media stereotyping.

Nicola joined the Department of Sociological Studies at Sheffield in 2024 and is currently convenor of MA Dissertation modules in Sociology and Digital Media and Society. Her previous position as Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York involved coordinating the departmental Learning and Teaching Forum, contributing to curriculum review and teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate modules including: Divisions & Inequalities; Sociological Imagination; Sociology of Health; Advanced Qualitative Methods; and Themes & Issues in Contemporary Sociology. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Nicola’s postdoctoral research experience includes roles on projects including: a NIHR funded evaluation of peer support for mental health patients in local communities (University of Huddersfield); a mixed-methods review of collaboration between local government policymakers and academics (University of Leeds); and a longitudinal digital ethnography of experiences of families and communities during Covid-19 (University College London).

Research interests

Nicola’s research interests centre upon families and personal relationships, intersectional class and gender inequalities, welfare and citizenship, community development, comparative qualitative methods and collaborative approaches to research-policy engagement.

Publications

Journal articles

Publications
  • Carroll, N., & Crawford, A. (2024) Cultivating ‘communities of practice’ to tackle civic policy challenges: insights from local government-academic collaboration in Leeds. Evidence & Policy (published online ahead of print 2024) https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2024D000000022
  • Carroll, N. and Yeadon-Lee, T. (2023) ‘I’m Mum and Dad in One, Basically’: Doing and displaying ‘good lone motherhood. Sociology. 56(3) 504-522.  50 doi/10.1177/00380385211037606
  • Twamley, K., Humera Iqbal, H., Faircloth, C. and Carroll, N. (2023) Processes of inclusion and exclusion in personal life in response to COVID-19 public health measures. In: Twamley, K., Humera Iqbal, H., Charlotte Faircloth, C. (Eds) Family Life in the Time of COVID: International Perspectives. London: UCL Press.
  • Carroll, N. (2018) Lone mothers’ negotiation of employment and parenting demands in the British worker citizenship context. Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research. (13) 39-59. doi/10.1108/S1530-353520180000013004/full

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