Mark Connaughton

Mark Connaughton is a PhD researcher visiting for one term from Roskilde University, Denmark.

At the Department of Methodology, he is particularly interested in how we can capture an abstract concept, such as dignity, through qualitative methods.

His project examines how unemployment and social marginalisation shapes the experience of dignity, investigated through a situated study of unemployed people living in a deindustrialised city in New England, USA.

He has an background in Urban Studies and has been involved in projects on climate litigation, migration and housing.

Mark's research interests are ethnographic and qualitative methods, unemployment, everyday life.

Publications:

Connaughton, M. (Accepted/In press). Dignity in space: the psycho-spatial politics of everyday life in unemployment. Qualitative Research in Psychology.

Connaughton, M. J., & Pultz, S. (Accepted/In press). Hopeful Engagements: Unemployment and the Struggle for Hope. Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology.

Fry, C., Boyd, E., Connaughton, M., Adger, W. N., Gavonel, M. F., Zickgraf, C., Fransen, S., Jolivet, D., Fábos, A. H., & Carr, E. (2024). Migrants as sustainability actors: Contrasting nation, city and migrant discourses and actions. Global Environmental Change, 87, Article 102860.