Dr Peter Rogers
Lecturer
Contact Details
Office: C3B/609
Phone: (61 2) 9850 6781
Fax No: (61 2) 9850 9355
E-mail: Peter.Rogers@scmp.mq.edu.au
Profile
Peter Rogers is a lecturer in the Sociology of Law and Criminology in the Department of Sociology. Peter completed his PhD at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) in urban regeneration and the social exclusion of young people, fostering a keen interest in the sociology of space and the operations of democratic governance. This has developed further with work as a Research Associate at Manchester University on the New Security Challenges programme focussing on the 'Everyday Resilience of the City' culminating in a recent book with Jon Coaffee and David Murakami-Wood from Palgrave Macmillan (2008). Before moving to Australia in 2008 Peter was a lecturer in Cultural Studies, Criminology and Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, and has been an active member of the British Sociological Association (BSA), sitting on the executive council as a trustee and founding the Urban Theory and Research Study Group (UTR), see link for more details: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/URBAN+THEORY+AND+RESEARCH+STUDY+GROUP.htm
Current Research Agenda
Main area of interest in current research are the impact of security, civil contingencies and integrated emergency management / comprehensive crisis management on the democratic project at local, regional, national and international scales. This includes forthcoming work on the role of communication of risk, hazard, threats and disasters in democratic governance and shifting emphases in contemporary governmentality, as well as reputational resilience and place-marketing and the impact of security and contingencies on urban space.
Peter has also published in the areas of urban regeneration and youth subcultural participation in governance. This strand of research seeks to develop the rhythmanalytical project in socio-spatial theory within a framework of meaningful participation and participatory appraisal; seeking to further emphasise the need for new creative approaches and tool kits of active community cohesion for developing meaningful and active citizenship across minority groups.
A third area of work is in the sociology of knowledge, critiquing the existing status quo in academia around research methods, the contract research model of scholarship and activation of the academy as a critical political force for positive change in global society.
Units taught in 2008
- SOC 236 Crime and Society
- SOC 361 Justice, Discipline and Punishment
- SOC 848 Crime Research and Policy
Recent Publications
Coaffee, J. Murakami-Wood, D.F.J & Rogers, P. (2008) 'The Everyday Resilience of the City', Palgrave Macmillan
Coaffee, J. and Rogers, P. (2008) Reputational risk: branding security in place and governance (commissioned for a special edition of Place Branding - Security and Place Branding) (f)
Coaffee, J. and Rogers P. (2008) 'Planning the resilient city" - from urban security to community resilience' (commissioned for a special edition of Space and Polity - Citizens and Borders in Europe) (f)
Rogers, P (2007) Renewing the "Affairs of State": How to spot a REAL 'Victim', Sociology SOC-Mar-2007-REV-081 (f)
Rogers, P. (2006) Are You Normal? Young People's participation in the Renaissance of Public Space - A case study of Newcastle upon Tyne; UK, Child, Youth & the Environment (commissioned for special edition 'Pushing the Boundaries: Critical International Perspectives on Child & Youth Participation' , Vol.16 (2), pp:102-116 http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/16_2/
Rogers, P. & Coaffee, J. (2005) 'Moral Panics and Urban Renaissance: Policy, Tactics and Lived Experiences in Public Space', City, Vol.9, pp: 321-340
Rogers, P. (2002) Public Space or Transitory space: The Case of Old Eldon Square, Forum: A Postgraduate Journal in Architecture, Planning & Landscape, University of Newcastle, Vol.5 (1)
Rogers, P. (2001) Consuming Cities: Selection & Exclusion in Urban Public Spaces, Forum: A Postgraduate Journal in Architecture, Planning & Landscape, University of Newcastle, Vol.3 (2)
Recent Positions
2001 - 2005: Assistant Lecturer, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
2002 - 2005: Guest Lecturer, Department of Geography, Northumbria University (UK)
2005 - 2006: Research Associate, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University (UK)
2006 - 2008 : Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Criminology and Sociology, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
2008: Lecturer in Sociology of Law and Criminology, Macquarie University (AUS)