Ms Leah Wild
Membership of Professional Bodies
- British Sociological Association.
- CSAP, The Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, part of the Higher Education Academy.
Profile
Leah Wild has been employed at Bath as a Lecturer and Teaching Fellow since 2003. Prior to this she was a visiting lecturer and PhD student at University West of England.
Leah has taught Social Theory courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level:
- The Sociology of the Body
- The Sociology of Sexualities
- Sexual Violence - Explanations responses and Debates
- Health and Illness
- Quantitative and Qualitative research methods
- ‘Race’ and Racism
- The Body and Emotion and Beliefs in Society
Leah is currently Director of Studies for BSc (Hons) Sociology, BSc (Hons) Social Policy, BSc (Hons) Social Sciences and BSc (Hons) Sociology with Human Resource Management. She previously worked as the admissions tutor for Social and Policy Sciences. Until 2009 Leah was an assessor for new lecturer training programme and co-ordinator of the FE to HE summer school programme at Bath.
Research interests
- The cross cultural and trans-historical representation of Nomadic cultures.
- The situation of Nomadic cultures in relation to the state and sedentary society.
- Theories of community, identity and ‘home and belonging’.
- ‘Otherness’ and its relationship to identity.
- The sociology of risk and ‘risk identities’.
- Explanations of racism, social hatred and genocide.
- Complexity Theory
- Neurosociology
Teaching
Undergraduate
- SP10043: Introductory Sociology A: The Foundations of Sociology (Moodle course
University of Bath only) - SP20112: Theoretical Issues 1: Structures and agency and other dualisms in social theory (Moodle course University of Bath only)
- SP20177: The Sociology of the Body
