Dr Dr Sacha Hilhorst

Sacha Hilhorst is an ESRC-funded post-doctoral fellow in sociology, working on the changing politics of England’s post-industrial towns. Her doctoral work was an ethnographic investigation of the shifting politics of ex-mining and manufacturing towns in the Midlands. The project found that there was a crisis of legitimacy in England’s former industrial heartlands, as many citizens have come to understand politics as fundamentally corrupt.

Expertise

Political Sociology, Ethnography, Post-industrial Towns, Deindustrialisation, Legitimacy