天美传媒

• Community studies
• Informal social control and governmentality studies
• Sociologies of space and everyday life
• Rural studies
• Public policy and community research
• Social identities and inequalities
• Social and spatial theory
• Continental philosophy
• Ethnography and qualitative research methods

• PhD Sociology
• PgCert in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
• BA(Hons) Criminology

• British Sociological Association
• Social Equality, Intersectionality, and Inclusion Research Group

Nathan teaches on the following courses:

• BA Sociology
• BA Sociology & Criminology聽

Nathan鈥檚 current research has focused on young people, digital exclusion, housing inequalities in the private rented sector, experiences of families of prisoners, and green spaces. His research projects include:

• 2024: Nuffield Foundation: Gypsy, Roma, Traveler Youth: Mitigating Exclusions using the Digital (拢371K, Co-I)

• 2023: Nuffield Foundation: Gypsy, Roma, Traveler Youth: Mitigating Exclusions using the Digital (拢255K, Co-I)
• 2023: Himaya Haven CIC: BAME Families of Prisoners (拢5K, PI)
• 2023: 天美传媒 City Council: Enabling a Digital 天美传媒 Evaluation (拢5K, PI)
• 2021: Walsall Council: Private Rented Sector (PRS) research on the impact of Universal Credit on evictions and abandonments across the Black Country Sub-Region (拢9K, PI)
• 2018: Garden Organic: Evaluation of the Master Gardener Programme on alleviating food poverty in deprived urban communities (拢17.5k, Co-I)
• 2017: Coventry University Pump-Priming: The role of advocacy in supporting young carers (拢8k, Co-I)
• 2016: Coventry University Pump-Priming: Exploring the 2015 UK General Election and Brexit (拢10k, Co-I)

Nathan is currently supervising five PhD students:

Student: Beenish Ameer
Thesis Topic: The impact of Brexit on the lived experiences of migrant-owned businesses in rural Scotland in relation to welcoming by the Scottish government and 鈥榟ost鈥� rural communities.聽
Role: Director of Studies

Student: Ronald Winch
Thesis Topic: Policing, Ethics and AI
Role: Director of Studies

Student: Abigail Shaw
Thesis Topic: Community engagement and participation concerning the achievement of desistance for African and Caribbean women with offending histories in 天美传媒.
Role: Director of Studies

Student: Maxwell Ayamba
Thesis Topic: People of Black African ancestry鈥� 鈥榣ived experience鈥� and use of the Peak District National Park 鈥� comparative study of two English Cities.
Role: External Second Supervisor

Student: Julia Lurfova
Thesis Topic: Ethnography of 鈥榡am鈥� music spaces
Role: Second Supervisor

Books

Kerrigan, N., Jones, S. (In Press; 2026). Urban Greening, Informal Social Control, and the Working Class: Keep Off the Grass. London: Routledge.

Kerrigan, N., Breen, D., and Bakkali, Y. (2025). Liquid Racism: Education, Brexit, and Black Youth Culture. Bristol: Policy Press.

Kerrigan, N., Breen, D., and Bakkali, Y. (In Press; 2024). Liquid Racism: Education, Brexit, and Black Youth Culture. Bristol: Policy Press.

Kerrigan, N., and de Lima, P. (2023). The Rural-Migration Nexus: Global Problems, Rural Issues. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Nahaboo, Z., Kerrigan, N. (2021). Migrants, Borders, and The European Question: The Calais Jungle. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-Macmillan

Kerrigan, N. (2018). A Threatened Rural Idyll? Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English countryside. Wilmington: Vernon Press.

Book Chapters

O鈥橲ullivan, A., and Kerrigan, N. (In Press; 2024). 鈥楻ebels in Society? Street Politics and Organic Intellectuals in the UK Oi! punk scene during the Miners鈥� Strike 1984-85鈥�. In. Blackman, S., (CCC), Raine, S., Hamilton, C., and McPherson, R. (Eds.) Popular Music Ethnographies. London: Intellect.

Kerrigan, N. (2023). 鈥楽tudent Producers Ain鈥檛 No Losers: Zine-making in a sociology and criminology classroom鈥�. In. Stewart, F., and Way L. (Eds) Punk Pedagogies in Practice: disruptions and connections. London: Intellect Book

Kerrigan, N. (2020) 鈥楧isability, Age, the British Countryside and Social Exclusion鈥�. In. Kelly, C.; Aubrecht, K.; Rice, C (Eds). Disability/Aging Nexus. Toronto: British Columbia Press.

Kerrigan, N. (2019). 鈥楻ural Racism in a digital age鈥�. In. Harmer, E., and Lumsdem, K. (Eds) Online Othering: exploring the dark side of the web. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.聽

Journal articles

Kerrigan, N. (2025). 鈥楻ural being: Merleau-Ponty, embodied perception and intersectionality鈥�. In. Sociologia Ruralis, 65(1), p.e12501.

Redshaw, S., Thomas, C., Kerrigan, N., Krivokapic-Skoko, B., and Flynn, S. (2025). 鈥楻urality and intersectionality: a literature review鈥�. In. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 44(9), pp.208-226.

O鈥橲ullivan, A., Breen, D., and Kerrigan, N. (2025). 鈥楴ot-so-critical race theory: a retort to Hodgkinson et al鈥檚 鈥榗ritical assessment鈥� of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK鈥�. In. Justice, Power and Resistance, 8(2), pp.149-169.

Edited Special Issues

Tomas, C., Kerrigan, N., Philips, J., Krivokapic-Skoko, B., Flynn, S., and Gorriss-Hunter, A. (Eds). (In Press; 2024). 鈥楽pecial Issue: Place and Space in Social Research: Rurality and Intersectionality鈥�. In. Sociologia Ruralis.

Reports

Kerrigan, N., and Buck鈥�Matthews, E. (2025). BAME Families of Prisoners Evaluation. 天美传媒: 天美传媒.

Kerrigan, N. (2024). Enabling a Digital 天美传媒: an evaluation of the 天美传媒 Digital Inclusion Strategy. 天美传媒: 天美传媒.

Kerrigan, N., Jones, S., and Riley, T. (2023). Private Rented Sector (PRS) Research: The Impact of Universal Credit on Eviction and/or Abandonments Across the Black Country Sub-Region. 天美传媒: 天美传媒.

Brown, G., Kerrigan, N., and Fried, J. (2019). The Master Gardener Programme working with urban communities: Garden Organic鈥檚 London Food Poverty Project. Coventry University: Coventry

Brown, G., and Kerrigan, N. (2018). Who cares for the carer: Exploring the role of advocacy in supporting young carers. Coventry University: Coventry

Nathan is available for comment and analysis on issues relating to: -

• Community and social cohesion
• Social identities and everyday life
• Rural change and inequality
• Late/liquid modernity and social and cultural transformation

Dr Kerrigan has collaborated with local authorities, and voluntary and community organisations on research and evaluation projects that examine the impact of public and community organisations鈥� interventions on individual and group experiences of inequality as to identify ways of bringing about change. His work has contributed to evidence-based approaches in public policy and community development.