Personal statement

Claire is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Bath Spa University. She joined Bath Spa as a part-time member of staff in August 2012 upon successful completion of her PhD.

Claire’s research interests focus on the sociology of power, disciplinarity and governance and concomitant dominations of the social that arise from these things. As a practitioner in higher education for over twenty years, these interests extend into how neo-liberal policies can work against the ‘spirit’ of education, particularly within higher education.

Other interests include the sociology of sport, the sociology of friendship, the political ideas of Hannah Arendt, and the literature of George Orwell and W.H. Auden.

Her current teaching at Bath Spa spans sociology, social and political theory and British and international politics. Claire supervises third year and PhD students at Bath Spa.

Claire also teaches social sciences, politics and education at undergraduate and postgraduate level at another institution.

Academic qualifications

  • BA (Hons), Sociology and International Studies - UWE
  • MA, Social and Political Thought - Sussex
  • PhD, Beyond the Social and Political: A Synthesis of the Political Philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault -Sussex

Professional memberships

  • Fellow - Higher Education Academy

Other external roles

  • VLE co-author, Introduction to Criminology, The Open University, December 2023
  • External Consultant : Level 6 Teaching and Assessment, 'Modern Political Ideas' The Open University, March 2024
  • Research Assistant - 'GAI in Higher Education Teaching and Assessment', Pan-University Research Project' The Open University, June 2024

Areas of expertise

  • Social and Political Theory
  • Political Sociology
  • Educational practice
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Public Sociology

Teaching specialisms

Claire is module coordinator for Power/Resistance. She also teaches on:

  • Questioning Society
  • Dissertation supervision

Research projects

  • Research Assistant – First Year Review of DD101: The South west AL Experience, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, July 2009
  • Research Assistant – ESRC Festival of Social Science, 'Remembering the Floods' – Photography and Urban Ethnography Project, October 2014

External consultancy

  • External subject consultant, MA Sociology, Nottingham Trent University, April 2017
  • External subject consultant, BA Sociology, Nottingham Trent University, May 2017
  • VLE consultant, Introduction to Criminology, The Open University, December 2023.

Research and academic outputs

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Cutting off the king’s head: the social in Arendt and Foucault
article

Edwards-Evans, C (1999) 'Cutting off the king’s head: the social in Arendt and Foucault.' Studies in Social and Political Thought, 1. pp. 3-20.

Distinction, discipline, domination: an Arendtian appraisal of Foucault's 'Discipline and punish'
conference_item

Edwards-Evans, C (2015) Distinction, discipline, domination: an Arendtian appraisal of Foucault's 'Discipline and punish'. In: Time Served: 'Discipline and Punish' 40 Years On, 11 - 12 September 2015, The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK.

Arendt and Foucault’s critiques of sovereignty
conference_item

Edwards-Evans, C (2003) Arendt and Foucault’s critiques of sovereignty. In: Annual Conference of the Centre for Social and Political Thought, September 2003, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Beyond the social and political: a synthesis of the political theories of Hannah Arendt and Michael Foucault (DPhil)
thesis

Edwards-Evans, C (2012) Beyond the social and political: a synthesis of the political theories of Hannah Arendt and Michael Foucault (DPhil). PhD thesis, University of Sussex.

50 Narratives @50: An exploration of if, when and how a short learning episode may lead to positive outcomes
commissioned_report

Dennis, A, Choak, C, Edwards-Evans, C and Elhaggagi, E (2020) 50 Narratives @50: An exploration of if, when and how a short learning episode may lead to positive outcomes. PRAXIS: Open University.

A review of data provided by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (Wiltshire) for comparison to the data contained in the report 'Specialist Domestic Violence Courts – how special are they?'
commissioned_report

MacVean, A, Edwards-Evans, C and Tusien, P (2019) A review of data provided by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (Wiltshire) for comparison to the data contained in the report 'Specialist Domestic Violence Courts – how special are they?'. Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner Northumbria.

Somerset Floods: One Year On [curators]
exhibition

McGuinness, M, Edwards-Evans, C and Wilkins, M (2015) Somerset Floods: One Year On [curators]. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, UK, February 2015.