I completed a PhD on the social reaction to paedophilia at Manchester University in 2004.
Between 2004 and 2006 I worked as a lecturer in sociology at Durham University and was review editor for the BSA’s Sociology journal. In 2006 I joined MMU.
My research interests and activities span a range of areas - including paedophilia and child sexual abuse, childhood, rape, gender, binge drinking, morality and moralising - which are connected by a focus on the media. Specifically, my research explores the ways in which the media create popular discourses around an issue and how these imapct on wider culture and society. I am interested in specific effects (e.g. the conceptualisation of laws or the implementation of rules) as well as general impact, such as providing a language for talking about a topic or contributing to the maintenance of norms and values.
Other research activites and group memberships
Member of the Joseph Rowntree Advisory Board for the project Transmission of Drinking Cultures, Liverpool John Moores University, 2008-2010.
I am a member of the BSA's media study group.
I am a member of the Parenting Cultures study group, based at the University of Kent.
I am a member of the BSA's childhood study group.
K. Milestone, A. Meyer (2020). Gender and Popular Culture. Polity.
K. Milestone, A. Meyer (2019). Gender and Popular Culture.
A. Meyer The child at risk: paedophiles, media responses and public opinion.
A. Meyer (2010). "Too drunk to say no": Binge drinking, rape and the daily mail. Feminist Media Studies. 10(1), pp.19-34.
A. Meyer (2007). The moral rhetoric of childhood. Childhood. 14(1), pp.85-104.
A. Meyer, S. Poynting (2018). Media, Crime and Racism. M. Bhatia, S. Poynting, W. Tufail. In: Media, Crime and Racism. Springer International Publishing,
A. Meyer, K. Milestone (2016). The Lonely Cloud: Intensive Parenting and Social Media in Neoliberal Times. In: We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, The Family and Popular Culture. Policy Press,
A. Meyer (2015). The Rotherham Abuse Scandal. In: Revisiting Moral Panics. Policy Press,
A. Meyer (2012). Global Islamophobia. G. Morgan, S. Poynting. In: Global Islamophobia. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.,
A. Meyer Moral panics, globalisation and Islamophobia: the case of Abu Hamza in The Sun.
A. Meyer Researching cultural consumers.
A. Meyer Evil monsters and cunning perverts: representing and regulating the dangerous paedophile.
A. Meyer (2010). Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control. M. Deflem. In: Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control. Emerald Group Publishing,
A. Meyer (2008). Investigating cultural consumers. In: Research Methods for Cultural Studies. pp.68-86.
J. Massey, A. Meyer (2009). Dangerous liaisons: child sex offending and underage sex in the media and the law. Indiana State University, USA, 5/10/2009.
Review editor for the BSA’s Sociology journal.
Member of the Joseph Rowntree Advisory Board for the project Transmission of Drinking Cultures, Liverpool John Moores University, 2008-2010.