Room 121, Mezzanine floor Main Arts

email c.patterson@bangor.ac.uk

Tel: 01248 382978

Lecturer in Sociology and Equalities Lead for the School of History Philosophy and Social Sciences (SHIPS)

After completing a degree in Sociology at Bangor University, Corinna then went on to work in the Mental Health Voluntary Sector as a Community Development Worker, before returning to full-time education in 2003 after being awarded ESRC (European Social Research Council) funding to complete an MA in Sociology and Social Policy and a PhD at Bangor University: ‘Wales in a Global Neighbourhood: Perspectives of and Reactions to Local and Global Citizenship’. Her PhD looked into issues of local and global civic empowerment and how globalization impacts different locations and communities.

Other Responsibilities:

Athena Swan Lead (2019 – current). 

Diversity, Equality and Sustainability Lead (2018-Current), promoting inclusivity and diversity into School’s curriculums and promoting a culture of inclusivity and diversity amongst the staff. 

Seminar Lead for Places of Climate Change Research Centre (PLoCC) (2019 – Current), Founding Member and Management Board member . PLoCC is a University wide, cross-disciplinary group. Semars are open to everyone and are run monthly on the second Wednesday or every month. https://www.bangor.ac.uk/plocc. 

Festival of Social Science Lead (2020- 2023)

WISERD Associate – 2009 - current

During her postgraduate years, she was given opportunities to teach at an undergraduate level and found she developed a passion for teaching. Modules taught to date are: Social Analysis, Perspectives in Social Sciences, Research Methods (undergraduate and postgraduate levels), Identity and Diversity, Study Skills and has contributed to a postgraduate Communities Studies module.

Current Modules I am teaching are: 

Year 1 – SXU-1003 - Introduction to Sociology 

Year 2 – SXU-2002 - Analysing Social and Political Debates. 

Year 3 – HPS-3003 - Race Democracy and Political Ideology. 

             SXS-3030 - Globalization and Social Change 

              SXU-3131 - The Climate Crisis and the Politics of Climate Justice 

Postgraduate Modules:

Year 4 -  SXU-4006 - The Climate Crisis and the Politics of Climate Justice 

Research Students:

• Muhammad Shahiryar - 2024 – 2027 – PI supervisor for PhD that is looking at the social environmental effects of the Belts and Roads Initiative in Europe.
• Laura Jones 2022 – 2025 – PI supervisor for PhD looking at Dyslexia, social class and life opportunities. 

• Dinah Jennings - 2021 – 2024 – PI Supervisor for a PhD that is looking into Gendered education. 

• Sioned Page Jones(PhD) - 2017-2020 - P.I. Supervisor for a KESS-11 funded PhD for Ynni Padarn-Peris Cyf, in conjunction with Sophie Wyn Jones (Co-supervisor) from Synergy. The PhD is looking at how Local hydro-energy schemes are established and how they benefit communities.
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• Sheree Ellingsworth - 2015 – 17 – Co-supervising a KESS funded MA student on a ‘Community Voice Project’ for for Medrwn MÔn. 

Corinna is interested in supervising PhD’s in the areas of: globalization, community, identity, belonging, the environment, citizenship and civic empowerment and inequality.

Corinna’s interests are generally on issues related to globalization and geo-politics including: Citizenship and civic empowerment, local and global concepts of belonging and identity, community, identity, issues of inequality (race, class, gender and intersectionality), environmental sociology, rationalization of the ‘other’ (human and non-human animals).

2009 - 2010 - Research Assistant for WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and

Economic Research). Bangor University Social Science Department: Researching local life and civil society in Wales

2023 – Senior HEA Fellowship Award 

2020 - HEA Fellowship Award 

Plastic Littering Research Group (BU)

Climate Change and Peace Research Group (Environment Platform Wales, Interdisciplinary Research Group).