David Calvey will give the Keynote at the 14th Annual Ethnography Symposium in August

Dr David Calvey is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

This is a prestigious international conference and a marker of David's esteem in the field.

This year’s Ethnography Symposium aims to bring together ethnographers in different disciplines who engage in wide forms of ethnographic research. The symposium aims to showcase the richness and diversity of ethnographic methods. 

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Dr David Calvey is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is interested in undercover research in the social sciences. David has been intellectually intrigued by studies of deception for a number of years and have published and taught in this area. He has also studied bouncers in the nocturnal environment as a study of a stereotype of masculinity in their role as gatekeeper/regulator of after-dark city spaces. Another research interest is resistance and disobedience at work, both in corporate call centres and micro creative business contexts. David has looked into Ethnographic Methodology and forms of auto-ethnography; Ethnomethodology as a form of social theory; extreme lifestyles such as combat sports and lastly, humour studies, particularly polemic stand-up comedy.