Dr Kristin Aune

Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences

School: School of Social Care and Therapeutic Practice

Subject Area: Applied Social and Community Studies

As Senior Lecturer in Sociology, I teach a range of modules across the Sociology programmes at undergraduate level, mostly in the area of gender. I am Programme Leader for the HND in Social Studies. Additionally, I supervise several PhD students.

Teaching responsibilities

At undergraduate level, I teach:

• Reflective Learning Skills (level 4)
• Feminism & Society (level 4)
• Gender & Work (level 5)
• HND Independent Project (level 5)
• Women & Popular Culture (level 6)
• Independent Studies (level 6)

Professional interests

I am on the Associate Board of the journal Sociology

I am external examiner for the BSc. in Sociology at Kingston University

Research interests

Most of my research focuses on gender and religion. My MA research looked at the role of single women in the contemporary church. For my PhD research, I undertook a study of contemporary evangelical Christians and their approach to gender. 

Since then, I've written about gender and religion more generally. Commitment to traditional religion seems to be declining amongst women, and I'm interested in the impact of changes in women's lives on their religious commitments.

I'm also interested in young women's position in contemporary society and their relationship with feminism, post-feminism and third-wave feminism. With Catherine Redfern, I have recently completed a survey project on new forms of feminism in the UK that have emerged since 2000, mainly amongst young women. The findings will be published in the book Reclaiming the F Word: The new feminist movement (Zed Books, summer 2010).  

With colleagues from Durham University and University of Chester, I am currently undertaking a three-year project investigating student Christianity in universities in England. The project is funded by a large grant from the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society scheme.

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

I belong to the British Sociological Association, the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group, and the Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK and Ireland).

I am currently Publications Officer for the Sociology of Religion Study Group and Series Editor for Ashgate's series 'Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group'.

Recent Conferences

 

• Religion in the UK, at the AQA AS/A2 Sociology Conference, City Temple, London (November 2009)
• Feminism, Law and Religion, Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Westminster (November 2009)
• Christianity and the University Experience in Contemporary England, at the ESRC seminar series Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship, seminar 2 'Faith and Activism', Newcastle University (October 2009) 
• Third-wave feminism in the contemporary UK: New feminists, same old issues?, at the Feminist & Women's Studies Association conference Feminist Transitions, Edge Hill University (June 2009)
• Doing Ethnographic Research with Evangelical Christians, at the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group postgraduate conference, University of Nottingham (May 2009) 
• Teaching Feminism and Popular Culture: Thoughts on third-wave feminist pedagogy, at the conference The Point of Feminism, University of Reading (September 2008)
• Between subordination and sympathy: evangelicals, gender and gay sexuality at the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group study day conference Religion and Gay Sexuality, University of the West of England (November 2007)
• Evangelical Culture and Ethics, at the Colloquium on the Future(s) of Evangelicalism, Ripon College, Cuddesdon (September 2007)
• Evangelical Christians, the Bible and Gender, at the seminar series The Bible in Culture and Society, University of Derby (March 2007)
• 2020 Vision: Christianity in a Future Society, at the Sea of Faith in the Churches annual conference, Loughborough (March 2007). 
• "Real men" and subordinate others: evangelical Christianity and hegemonic masculinity, at the conference Religion and Gender in Global Perspectives, University of Copenhagen (October 2006)
• Single women and the church, at the festival Greenbelt, Cheltenham Race Course (August 2006)
• Being a "real" heterosexual man: British evangelicals and male sexuality, at the annual Feminist and Women's Studies Association conference Identity, Sexuality, Diversity, University of Bradford (July 2006)

Media experience

I have published comment pieces and feature articles in a variety of media formats (including The Guardian, Church Times, Third Way, The Sydney Morning Herald and The F-Word). I have featured as an academic commentator on BBC TV, cable TV, BBC Radio 4 and local radio.

Postgraduate qualifications

• MA in Women's Studies, University of York

Research qualifications

• PhD on gender in contemporary British evangelical Christianity, King's College, University of London

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