1. Rosalind Clair Gill was born on 1963 and is a British sociologist and feminist cultural theorist.
16 Facts About Rosalind Gill
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Rosalind Gill is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London.
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Rosalind Gill was born on 22 April 1963, the daughter of Janet and Michael Rosalind Gill, whom she describes as left-wing and politically engaged parents.
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Rosalind Gill's work is interdisciplinary, and she has worked in departments of Psychology, Sociology, Media and Communications, and Gender Studies.
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Rosalind Gill took up her position at City, University of London, in 2013.
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Rosalind Gill was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.
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Rosalind Gill has a long-standing interest in methodology and the research process, and has authored books and articles about discourse analysis, reflexivity, and secrets and silences in research.
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Rosalind Gill's work has made a contribution to debates about how discrimination changes.
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Rosalind Gill's research has included a large-scale qualitative study of men's experiences of a visual culture increasingly dominated by idealised representations of the male body.
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Rosalind Gill's work has made important contributions to theorising both precariousness and inequality in these settings.
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Rosalind Gill's co-edited collections Theorising Cultural Work and Gender and Creative Labour pull together these arguments.
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Rosalind Gill is co-editor, with Ursula Huws, of Palgrave's Dynamics of Virtual Work series, which came out of an EU COST grant of the same name.
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Academic work is a further interest, exemplified by Rosalind Gill's much circulated essay "The Hidden Injuries of the Neoliberal University", and several subsequent articles.
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Rosalind Gill has received funding from and worked on projects commissioned by the Arts Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The British Academy, The Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission and the United Nations.
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Rosalind Gill has worked with a range of governmental, non-governmental and activist bodies.
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Besides the contribution of her own research, Rosalind Gill's influence has been felt through her teaching and extensive PhD supervision.