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Three Words to Describe Me: Committed, Sceptical, Collegial.
I have spent a number of years training in different martial arts, which, injuries permitting, I intend to continue. I also intend to take up sea kayaking soon. Most of my time is blissfully taken up as a new father with my baby daughter Mabel, who is a bundle of joy.
I’m interested in undercover research in the social sciences. I have been intellectually intrigued by studies of deception for a number of years and have published and taught in this area.
I’ve 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. I’ve 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.
In my professional work at MMU, my main priority is passing on intellectual knowledge in a democratic way. MMU is a genuine community university with a diverse study body rather than an elite institution of privilege.
Another motivation is the sharing of critical ideas and experiences between students and colleagues in a learning community. It’s important for students to develop types of critical thinking and citizenship that reflect on the society we live in. By doing this, they’ll take a positive and responsible role in shaping society in the future.
My advice is to be passionate about what you study and put your heart and soul into the three years spent at MMU.
My approach to teaching and learning is student-centred. Although I have an expert knowledge in Sociology, it is vital to actively listen to the student voice and connect with them. In this way, they’ll have an ownership of the knowledge and ideas they’re learning.
An empowering and trusting teaching environment enables students to progress in a cooperative yet competitive manner. I employ a playful teaching method so that the students don’t feel preached to but engaged with. We can be practical and structured about their learning without being patronising or severe.
I’d describe my teaching style as collaborative, creative, and playful.
Registered Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy, Membership No 4742, January 2006 (formerly the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, membership from March 2000)
Education
1990-1994 PhD Sociology - University of Manchester - Thesis - 'The Organisation of Work Culture: The Case of a High-Tech Salesforce' (ESRC Competition Award, R00428924036)
1988-1989 MSc Management Science - UMIST - Dissertation - 'The Labour Process Debate'. Courses followed: Industrial Relations, Organisational Psychology, Industrial Sociology, Personnel Management, Research Methodology (ESRC Committee Award, F00428711039)
1984-1987 BA (Hons) History & Sociology (2:1) - University of Manchester - Dissertation - 'Positivism' - Baron Boules University Memorial Prize for Final Year Sociology Work
Organisation Theory, Critical Management Studies, Popular Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Interactionism, Covert Social Research, Philosophical Methodology, Security work and the Night-time Economy, Gangs, Recreational Drug Cultures, Club Cultures
W. Laverick, P. Joyce, D. Calvey, L. Cain (2019). The menopause and the female police workforce. British Journal of Community Justice. 15(2), pp.59-81.
J. Sinanan (2016). Book Review: Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani (eds), Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy and Activism. Qualitative Research. 16(4), pp.477-478.
D. Calvey (2011). 'The Enduring Legacy of Urban Ethnography: Myth and Reality' and 'Urban Ethnography: Its Traditions and its Futures'. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH. 11(2), pp.214-217.
D. Calvey (2010). The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 44(6), pp.1210-1212.
D. Calvey (2010). Culture and Society: An Introduction to Cultural Studies. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 44(4), pp.784-785.
D. Calvey (2010). Advertising in Modern and Postmodern Times. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 44(3), pp.591-593.
D. Calvey (2010). Joint Review: D.L. MacKenzie What Works in Corrections: Reducing the Criminal Activities of Offenders and Delinquents Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, £45.00 hbk (ISBN: 9-780521-806459), xi+391 pp. S. Bushway, M.A. Stoll and D.F. Weiman (eds) Barriers to Re-entry? The Labour Market for Released Prisoners in Post-industrial America New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006, £37.50 hbk (ISBN: 978-0-87154-087-4), xii+336 pp. Sociology. 44(1), pp.161-164.
D. Calvey (2010). What Works in Corrections: Reducing the Criminal Activities of Offenders and Delinquents. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 44(1), pp.161-164.
D. Calvey (2010). Barriers to Re-entry? The Labour Market for Released Prisoners in Post-industrial America. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 44(1), pp.161-164.
D. Calvey (2009). Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 43(3), pp.587-588.
D. Calvey (2008). The art and politics of covert research: Doing 'situated ethics' in the field. Sociology. 42(5), pp.905-918.
D. Calvey (2006). Caribbean drugs: From criminalization to harm reduction. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 40(3), pp.585-586.
D. Calvey (2005). Hooked on heroin: Drugs and drifters in a globalized world. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 39(3), pp.564-565.
D. Calvey (2005). New technologies at work: People, screens and social virtuality. MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY. 27(2), pp.309-310.
D. Calvey (2004). Gangs and delinquency in developmental perspective. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 38(5), pp.1049-1051.
D. Calvey (2004). In search of respect: Selling crack in El Barrio, 2nd edition. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 38(5), pp.1049-1051.
D. Calvey (2004). The 11 myths of media violence. MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY. 26(6), pp.901-902.
D. Calvey (2004). Interactionism. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 38(4), pp.842-844.
D. Calvey (2004). Interpretive interactionism. SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE. 9(3),
D. Calvey (2004). Longitudinal qualitative research: Analyzing change through time. CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY-A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS. 33(3), pp.377-378.
D. Calvey (2004). Dark Paradise: a history of opiate addiction in America. DRUGS-EDUCATION PREVENTION AND POLICY. 11(2), pp.185-187.
D. Calvey (2004). Bouncers: Violence and governance in the night-time economy. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 55(1), pp.149-150.
D. Calvey (2004). Qualitative analysis: Practice and innovation. CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY-A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS. 33(1), pp.123-124.
D. Calvey (2003). Ethnomethodology's program: Working out Durkheim's aphorism. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. 51(3), pp.428-430.
D. Calvey (2002). Critique and radical discourses on crime. DISCOURSE & SOCIETY. 13(4), pp.573-574.
D. Calvey (1999). Tricks of the trade. British Journal of Sociology. 50(1), pp.171-173.
D. Calvey (1999). Understanding gender and organizations. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 50(1), pp.160-161.
D. Calvey (2023). Deception, situated ethics, and police ethnography. In: Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography. Routledge, pp.231-247.
D. Calvey (2021). Covert Participant Observation. In: The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Volume II: Parts 5-8. Wiley, pp.386-389.
D. Calvey (2021). Covert Research. In: SAGE Research Methods Foundations. SAGE Publications Limited,
D. Calvey (2020). Deception: Its Use and Abuse in the Social Sciences. R. Iphofen. In: Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity. New York: Springer,
D. Calvey (2019). Chapter 4 A Sociological Case of Stand-up Comedy: Censorship, Offensiveness and Opportunism. In: Studies in Qualitative Methodology. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.65-78.
D. Calvey Creativity in action: creative multimedia SMEs in Manchester.
D. Calvey, D. Russell, M. Banks (2003). How e-learning businesses meet client and end user needs: analysing the collaborative contexts. In: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business Pedagogy, Technology and Innovation VIII. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
D. Russell, D. Calvey, M. Banks (2004). How e-learning businesses meet client and end user needs: Analysing the collaborative contexts. In: EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION IN ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS VII: PEDAGOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION. Nice, FRANCE, 19/6/2001. pp.3-17.
Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Discourse Studies, The Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology, Sociological Research Online, Media, Culture and Society.
1996, September, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Brisbane, University of Queensland
Registered Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy, Membership No 4742, January 2006 (formerly the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, membership from March 2000)