Thomas Wilson PHD Student (Sociology)

Tom is a PhD candidate in SSPSSR working across both the Canterbury and Medway campuses. His study focuses upon exploring sustainable industrial culture within the deindustrializing district of the Chatham Dockyards in Medway, England – an area that has undergone extensive deindustrialisation since 1980. Tom’s attention will be on the remaining industrial zone of the dockyard which has come under threat from proposed waterfront housing development, likely seeing the eradication of c800 industrial jobs from the area and the permanent loss of a vibrant industrial area. The project examines the nature and status of industrial culture in the Chatham-Medway region and looks at generational reproduction of work identity. Tom’s supervisors for this project are Professor Tim Strangleman and Dr Dawn Lyon.

Tom achieved a First Class BA (Hons) in Criminology and Sociology at The University of Kent, before securing his MA in Sociology with distinction at The University of Manchester.

Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA)

Affiliate member of Deindustrialisation and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT)