Matthew Spokes

Associate Dean looking after Sociology and Criminology at York St John, as well as lecturing on death and mortality, social theory and spatial sociology. Research background in popular culture, death, spatial sociology and social theory. Research interests include the securitisation of migration, the privatisation of UK asylum housing and representations of structural harm within popular interactive media. I have previously published on topics ranging from the 2011 UK riots to the implications of expanded social control markets following the 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum.