Biography
I joined LJMU in September 2017 as Senior Lecturer in Sociology.
I have a range of research interests in the areas of critical disability studies, the sociology of the body and health and illness and feminism and domestic culture. I have published and co-published on disability hate crime, childhood illness experiences, the social and legal responses to smoking in public and its impact upon the incarcerated, quality of life research, the narrative inquiry technique and the use of food banks in Cheshire.
I have supervised doctoral students from a range of areas and would welcome applications to work with me in the following areas in particular:
- The sociology of health and illness
- The sociology of disability and the body
- Feminism and domestic cultures
- Leaky bodies, stigma and difference
- Disability and poverty porn
- Innovative methodologies
Degrees
University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom, PGCE Learning and Teaching in HE
University of Central Lancashie, United Kingdom, PhD in Sociology of Health
University of Leeds, United Kingdom, BA (Hons) Sociology
Academic appointments
Associate Lecturer in Social Sciences, Open University, 2010 - 2013
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Social and Political Science, University of Chester, 2007 - 2017
Research Fellow, University of Central Lancashire, 2004 - 2007
Sessional Lecturer in Sociology, Glyndwr University, 2002 - 2004
Publications
Journal article
Ogden C, Harrison K. 2019. “Grandma never knit like this”: Reclaiming older women’s knitting practices from discourses of new craft in Britain Leisure Studies, 38 :453-467 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Ogden CA, Raisborough J, de Guzman V. 2018. When Fat Meets Disability in Poverty Porn: exploring the cultural mechanisms of suspicion in Too Fat to Work Disability and Society, 32 :276-295 DOI Public Url
Corteen KM, Taylor P, Ogden C. 2012. Tobacco Smoking and Incarceration: Expanding the ‘Last Smoker’ Thesis An Essay in Honour of David Ford The Internet Journal of Criminology, :1-19
Taylor P, Corteen K, Ogden C, Morley S. 2012. 'Standing' by: Disability hate crime and the police in England: Paul Taylor, Karen Corteen, Cassandra Ogden and Sharon Morley document police shortcomings in dealing with vulnerable minorities Criminal Justice Matters, 87 :46-47 DOI
Ogden CA. 2010. Potential of narrative inquiry approach in developing a psychosocial understanding of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in children; an essential addition to health related quality of life (QoL) instruments? The Internation Journal of Narrative Practice, 2 :57-71
Ogden CA. 2008. Pilot Evaluation of an Instrument to Measure Quality of Life in British Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 46 :117-120 DOI
Ogden CA, Akobeng A, Abbott J, Sood M, Thomas AG. Validation of an instrument to measure quality of life in British children with inflammatory bowel disease Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 53 :280-286 DOI
Ogden C, Harrison K. ‘Knit “n” natter’: A feminist methodological assessment of using creative ‘women’s work’ in focus groups Qualitative Research, DOI Public Url
Book
Mallett R, Ogden CA, Slater J. 2016. Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane Precarious Positions University of Chester Press 9781908258205
Ogden CA, Wakeman S. 2013. Corporeality The Body and Society University of Chester 9781905929979
Harrison K, Ogden CA. Pornographies Critical Positions 9781908258328
Chapters
Ogden CA. 2016. Armless Dreams or Carnal Practices? Transableism and the legitimisation of the ideal body. Ogden C. Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane Precarious Positions University of Chester Press 9781908258205
Ogden CA, Ogden CA. 2016. Disability Hate Crime A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation Policy Press 9781447325727
Ogden CA. 2014. Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry in Mental Health Research A companion to criminal justice, mental health and risk Policy Press 9781447312628
Ogden CA. 2014. The Social Model of Disability A companion to criminal justice, mental health and risk Policy Press 9781447312628
Ogden CA. 2014. Disability Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm :171-174 Routledge 9781317907220
Ogden CA. 2013. Surveillance of the Leaky Child. No-body’s normal but that doesn’t stop us trying’ Corporeality The Body and Society University of Chester 9781905929979
Report
Ogden CA, Spencer A, Batterbee L. 2015. Cheshire Hunger: understanding emergency food provision in West Cheshire Publisher Url
Ogden CA, Spencer A, Garrett E. #Still Hungry: who is hungry for how long and why? #Still Hungry: who is hungry for how long and why? Author Url