Section: Sociology

Angus Bancroft

Name
Dr Angus Bancroft
Title
Organisation
Sociology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
6.23 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 6642
E-Mail
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/bancroft_angus

Qualifications

  • MA (Edinburgh)
  • PhD (Cardiff)

Research Interests

The sociology of health and illness, including topics of smoking, drugs, alcohol and intoxication; the senses, sensuality and interaction; crime and deviance; social theory;  race and ethnicity; inequality, deprivation and exclusion; qualitative research methods; lifecourse methods.

PhD Supervision

I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students interested in any of the areas mentioned above.

I am currently supervising PhD students in the following areas:

  • Self-harm
  • Pimping
  • Roma and Gypsy-Travellers
  • Human trafficking
  • Social inclusion and drug use
  • Intensive care recovery
Office Hours

Tuesday 9-11am.

Twitter@socintox

Publications

Ralph Fevre and Angus Bancroft (2010) Dead White Men and Other Important Peope: Sociology's Big Ideas, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Angus Bancroft (2009) Drugs, Intoxication and Society, Cambridge: Polity Press.  Buy at Amazon UK.

Angus Bancroft (2005) Roma and Gypsy-Travellers in Europe: Modernity, Race, Space and Exclusion, Avebury: Ashgate Press.

Angus Bancroft, Sarah Wilson, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Kathryn Backett-Milburn and Hugh Masters (2004), Parental Drug and Alcohol Misuse: Resilience and Transition Among Young People, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Angus Bancroft, Susan Wiltshire, Amanda Amos and Odette Parry (2003) "'It's like an addiction first thing- afterwards it's like a habit': daily smoking behaviour among people living in areas of deprivation." Social Science & Medicine, 56, 6, 1261-1267.

Angus Bancroft, Amanda Carty, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, (2002) Support for Families of Drug Users, Edinburgh: Scottish Executive.

Odette Parry, Angus Bancroft, Amanda Amos, Susan Wiltshire, (2002) "Smoking & disadvantage: the importance of taking an in-depth, inter-disciplinary approach," Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. 31(4) 197-199.

Angus Bancroft (2001) "Globalisation and HIV/AIDS: Inequality and the Boundaries of a Symbolic Epidemic," Health, Risk & Society, 3, 1, 89-98. Reprinted in R. Robertson and K. White (2003) Globalization: Critical Concepts in Sociology, London: Routledge.

Angus Bancroft (2001) "Closed Spaces, Restricted Places: Marginalisation of Roma in Europe," Space and Polity, 5, 2, 145-157.

 

This page was published on 27 November 2009


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