Dr David Calvey

Senior Lecturer

Responsibilities

Admin

• Year 3 Tutor, Combined Honours (1/9/01-ongoing)
• Convenor, Sociology Teaching Circle (1/10/04-ongoing) 
• Convener IRG (Interaction Research Group, formerly KORG) (1/9/05-ongoing)
• Associate Lecturer Co-ordinator, Sociology Department (1/9/05-ongoing) 
• Departmental Representative, Faculty Board (1/10/04-ongoing)
• Departmental Research Committee member, Sociology Department (10/1/07-ongoing)
• Member (co-opted 11/06), University Academic Ethics Committee (UAEC)

Teaching

• Principles and Practices of Field Research (u/g-year 3, co-lecturer/seminar tutor)
• Studying Cultural Products and Practices (u/g-year 1, co-lecturer)
• Sociological Theory (u/g-year 2, co-lecturer/seminar tutor)
• The Sociology of Work and Organisations (u/g unit-year 2, unit leader/seminar tutor)

 

Background

Biography

Professional Membership/Activities

Jan 1992-ongoing	Member of The British Sociological Association (BSA), Membership No 365 and co-convenor of the BSA Language Study Group 2000 Conference on Workplace Studies
May 2005-ongoing	Departmental Representative
2001-ongoing	ESRC Rapporteur for 'Bouncers: the art and economics of intimidation (award ref no L133251050) by Professor R. F. Hobbs (University of Durham)
	ESRC Referee and Rapporteur for 'Women On the Door: Female Bouncers in the Night-time Economy' (application ref no RES-000-23-0384) by Professor R. F. Hobbs (University of Durham) and Dr L. Westmarland (Open University)
2004-ongoing	Convenor (IRG-Interaction Research Group-formerly KORG), Sociology Dept, Manchester Metropolitan University
2001-ongoing	Member, IIEMCA (International Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)
2003-ongoing	Board Member, Mind and Society (http://www.mind-society.org/)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Fields/Expertise

Organisation Theory, Critical Management Studies, Popular Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Interactionism, Covert Social Research, Philosophical Methodology, Security work and the Night-time Economy, Gangs, Recreational Drug Cultures, Club Cultures

Professional Qaulification

Registered Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy, Membership No 4742, January 2006 (formerly the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, membership from March 2000)

Education

1990-1994	PhD Sociology - University of Manchester - Thesis - 'The Organisation of Work Culture: The Case of a High-Tech Salesforce' (ESRC Competition Award, R00428924036)
1988-1989	MSc Management Science - UMIST - Dissertation - 'The Labour Process Debate'.  Courses followed: Industrial Relations, Organisational Psychology, Industrial Sociology, Personnel Management, Research Methodology (ESRC Committee Award, F00428711039)
1984-1987	BA (Hons) History & Sociology (2:1) - University of Manchester - Dissertation - 'Positivism' - Baron Boules University Memorial Prize for Final Year Sociology Work

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visiting Fellow

1996, September, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Brisbane, University of Queensland

Invited Guest Speaker

2004, February 16th, 'The Art and Politics of Covert ethnography: the confessions of a sociological bouncer', 4410 Innovations in Ethnography session, Language and Interaction stream, Western States Communication Association (WSCA) International Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

2006, June 16th, 'Covert research and risk in the social sciences: media sensationalism', Research ethics in the social sciences Conference, ARCISS (Association of Research Centres in the Social Sciences), PREST, Harold Hankins Building, The University of Manchester

2006, July 6th, 'The art and politics of covert research: a hidden tradition', Parallel Session 4.11 Ethics in Criminological Research, British Society of Criminology Conference, Research and Theory: New Directions in Criminology, Glasgow Caledonian University (www.caledonian.ac.uk/bscconf2006)

2006, September 5th, 'The art and politics of covert research in social science; going undercover and ethical awareness, Ethical dilemmas in Science and Social Policy section, BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) Festival of Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich (www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/FestivalofScience - selected for broadcasted BBC News24 interview

Book Reviewer

Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Discourse Studies, The Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology, Sociological Research Online, Media, Culture and Society.

Audiocassette/Media Notes

Audiocassette participant, Programme 12: Social Change and Everyday Life (AC2995), Sociology and Society (Level 2 Social Sciences), Open University, 2002.

Media Notes for Module 4, Sociology and Society (Level 2 Social Sciences), Open University, 2002.

Research Projects (several discussion papers/research reports from them)

1994-1996, Computer based methods of interaction, with Professor Wes Sharrock (Manchester University) and Professor John Hughes (Lancaster University), ESPRIT Basic Research Action Project 6225

1997, 'Bouncers and Bouncing in Manchester', Hayter Parry Award, Sociology Department, Manchester University

1998, 'Service Encounter' with Professor David Knights and Dr Pam Odih, Financial Services Research Centre, Manchester School of Management, UMIST and Marks & Spencer's Financial Services (commissioned research)

1999, 'Risk Management', with Professor Rod Coombs and Dr William Cannell (European Commission), CRIC (Centre for Research on Innovation and competition), Manchester University, ESRC

2000, SMILE (Skills for the Missing Industries' Leaders and Enterprises) with Dr Mark Banks and David Russell, SMILE ESF ADAPT project, MITER, Manchester Metropolitan University

2001, 'Learning in Project-Based Organisations', with Professor Peter Morris and Professor Joseph Lampel, based at CRMP (Centre for Research in the Management of Project), UMIST, EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) project

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