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Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Wolfson Fellow

Prof Roy Boyne

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 46837

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Biography

Roy convenes the Economy and Society Research Group in the School. He has published books on French philosophy, the sociology of art and cinema, and cultures of risk. He is a member of the executive editorial board of Theory, Culture and Society, and a board member of the recent journal, Creative Industries. He was guest-editor for the 2007 edition, devoted to cinema, of Symbolism: a Journal of Critical Aesthetics. He was Vice-Chair of the Board of Culture North East (until its demise in April 2009). He is writing a book for Sage on regional and international cultural strategy, based in part on research he did whilst visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg in 2007. An interest in economic sociology came out of his role in Culture North East, and he developed an application of the financial derivatives model with the intent of enabling further control over the the socio-economic impacts of ivestment in culture.  This is still part of his research plans, alongside the development of case studies on Berlin, the Viaduc de Millau, Futurism, and the Sage Gateshead.

He would welcome applications from potential PhD students in the sociology of culture, the sociology of risk, the sociology of cinema, and also in applications of recent continental philosophy and sociology.

Indicators of Esteem

  • 2009: Invited lecture: ‘Towards a new paradigm for public cultural investment', Policy Research Institute Seminar: Public Art and Regeneration, Leeds Metropolitan University, 8 June, 2009
  • 2009: Public lecture: ‘From the Viaduc de Millau to The Angel of the North', 9th Conference of European Sociological Association, Lisbon, 3 September 2009.
  • 2008: Invited lecture:

    'Achieving the legacy aims of cultural investment: strategic futures
    after the "credit crunch".' Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of
    Glasgow, 10 December 2008

  • 2007: Creative Industries Advisory Board: Founding member of the newly establishing Creative Industries Journal
  • 2006: Member AHRC Knowledge and Evaluation Committee: Appointed 2006 as Member Arts and Humanities Research Council, Knowledge and Evaluation Committee. Sept 06-August 09.
  • 2006: Visiting Professor, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg: Appointed Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg Jan-April 2006.

Research Projects

School of Applied Social Sciences

  • Comparative Cultural Strategy and socio-economic indicators

Teaching Areas

  • BA (Hons) Sociology Year One "Culture and Society"
  • BA (Hons) Sociology Year Three "Sociology of the Spectacle" (from Oct 2009)

Selected Publications

Books: authored

  • Boyne, R. (2003). Risk. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
  • Boyne, R. (2000). Subject, Society and Culture. London: Sage.
  • Boyne, R. (1990). Foucault and Derrida. London: Unwin-Hyman.

Books: reviews

  • Boyne, R. (2010). Creative Urban Milieus; Historical Perspectives on Culture, Economy and the City. Creative Industries Journal 3(1): 98-100.
  • Boyne, R. (2009). Creative Cities, Cultural Clusters and Local Economic Development. Creative Industries Journal 2(1).
  • Boyne, R. (2008). The Economics of Experiences, the Arts and Entertainment. Leisure Studies 27(3).

Books: sections

  • Boyne, R. (2011). Sociology of the spectacle: politics, terror, desire. In Handbook of Visual Culture. Heywood, I. & Sandywell, B. Berg.
  • Boyne, R. (2006). Subjectivity. In The Sage Dictionary of Social Research Metthods. Victor Jupp.
  • Boyne, R. (2004). Reflexivity, rationality and identity. In Tokyo: Wasada. 60-67.
  • Boyne, R. (2003). Avant le corps: le sociologie et le sujet. In Souillure et purete: le corps et son environment culturel. Vincensini, Jean-Jacques Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose. 17-29.
  • Boyne, R. (2003). Jacques Derrida. In Key Contemporary Social Theorists. Oxford: Blackwell. 109-115.
  • Boyne, R. (2002). Foucault and Art. In A Companion to Art Theory. Smith, P. & Wilde, C. Blackwell. 337-348.
  • Boyne, R. (2000). 'Structuralism'. In The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Bryan Turner. 160-190.

Essays in edited volumes

Journal papers: academic

  • Boyne, R. (2010). Three responses to Zygmunt Bauman. Theory Culture and Society 27(6): 91-94.
  • Boyne, R. (2008). A Brief Note on Giacometti. Theory, Culture and Society 25(5): 20-29.
  • Boyne, Roy. (2007). Cinema and Multitude. Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 7: 51-81.
  • Boyne, Roy. (2006). Classification. Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3): 21-30.
  • Boyne, R. (2004). Anamnesis of the visible, Jean-Francois Lyotard. Theory, Culture and Society 21(1): 107-119 translated by Couze Venn and Roy Boyne.
  • Boyne, R. (2004). Uterine self-understanding and the indispensable other: editorial reflections on the work of Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger. Theory, Culture and Society 21(1): 1-5.
  • Boyne, R. (2002). Bourdieu: from class to culture. Theory, Culture and Society 19(3): 117-128.

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Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

  • Sociology: Public investment in culture
  • Sociology: Developments in surveillance
  • Sociology: Economics and Social Risks
  • Sociology: European thought

Grants Awarded

  • 2005: Partnership Venture grant of £10K (for a project titled "Comparative Cultural Strategy and socio-economic inidcators" and costed at £30K).