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Liz McFall

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Head of Sociology, The Open University

Liz McFall is Head of Sociology at the Open University. Her work explores how markets are made especially for dull ‘low finance’ products like doorstep insurance and credit. Her book Devising Consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending (Routledge, 2014) argues that it takes all sorts of technical, material, artistic and metaphysical know-how to devise consumer markets. Liz is author of Advertising: a cultural economy (2004), co-editor of Conduct: sociology and social worlds (2008) and co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Economy.

Experience

  • –present
    Head of Sociology, The Open University

Education

  • 2001 
    Open University, PhD Sociology
  • 1991 
    Strathclyde University, MSc Information Management
  • 1987 
    Queen Margaret College, BA Communication Studies

Publications

  • 2014
    Devising consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending, Routledge
  • 2011
    A Good Average Man: calculation and the limits of statistics in enrolling insurance customers, Sociological Review
  • 2010
    Pragmatics and Politics, Journal of Cultural Economy
  • 2009
    Devices and desires: how useful is the 'new' new economic sociology of market attachment? , Sociology Compass
  • 2009
    The Agencement of Industrial Branch Life Assurance, Journal of Cultural Economy

Grants and Contracts

  • 2011
    Market Encounters
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    British Academy