Research Interests

• Studies of work and identity
• The Cultural Industries and the cultural sector more generally
• Museum Studies
• Performance and performativity
• Therapeutic policy and soft paternalism (for more information see Jessica Pykett/Mark Whitehead and Rhys Jones' blog http://governingtemptation.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/sticks-stones-and-lexical-nudges/) Methodological interests
  • Foucauldian analyses of power and subjection, and how these might be practically carried out. How can we investigate subjectivity, if at all?
  • Actor-Network Theory (and after!)
  • Institutional ethnographies and organizational theory