Overview
As Head of School I have significant responsibilities for the strategic direction and leadership of the School of Social Sciences, shared with senior colleagues. My principal concern, in this role, is to exercise stewardship of the School’s exemplary research reputation and to foster its standing as a center for learning and teaching of the highest quality.
I have been an academic member of the School since it was first established, having come to Cardiff from Cambridge University where my background and training (and doctoral work) was in social anthropology. My research and teaching have been shaped by this upbringing, straddling anthropology, ethnography, the sociology of everyday life and the urban environment. I have researched and written about homelessness over most of the last twenty years, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly; also youth and young people.
I am a member of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and have previously served as the BSA Treasurer and as Editor of the BSA’s flagship journal, Sociology; I am also a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a Fellow of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods.
Publication
2023
- Smith, R., Ablitt, J., Williams, J. and Hall, T. 2023. The coining of convivial public space: Homelessness, outreach work, and interaction order. Urban Planning 8(4), pp. 42-51. (10.17645/up.v8i4.6457)
2018
- Hall, T. 2018. Homelessness and the city. In: Low, S. ed. The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 55-68.
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2018. Everyday territories: homelessness, outreach work and city space. British Journal of Sociology 69(2), pp. 372-390. (10.1111/1468-4446.12280)
2017
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Seeing the need: urban outreach as sensory walking. In: Bates, C. and Rhys-Taylor, A. eds. Walking Through Social Research. New York: Routledge, pp. 39-53., (10.4324/9781315561547-4)
2016
- Hall, T. 2016. Footwork: urban outreach and hidden lives. London: Pluto Press. (10.2307/j.ctt1jktrw6)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Mobilities at work: care, repair, movement and a fourfold typology. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 147-160. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1246897)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Pedestrian circulations: Urban ethnography, the mobilities paradigm and outreach work. Mobilities 11(4), pp. 498-508. (10.1080/17450101.2016.1211819)
- Wood, L. A., Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2016. Work on the move: editors' introduction to the special issue. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 139-146. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1250371)
2015
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Care and repair and the politics of urban kindness. Sociology 49(1), pp. 3-18. (10.1177/0038038514546662)
2014
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2014. Knowing the city: maps, mobility and urban outreach work. Qualitative Research 14(3), pp. 294-310. (10.1177/1468794112469623)
2013
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2013. Stop and Go: A Field Study of Pedestrian Practice, Immobility and Urban Outreach Work. Mobilities 8(2), pp. 272-292. (10.1080/17450101.2012.659470)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2013. No time out: mobility, rhythmicity and urban patrol in the twenty-four hour city. The Sociological Review 61(S1), pp. 89-108. (10.1111/1467-954X.12055)
2011
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Walking, welfare and the good city. Anthropology in Action 18(3), pp. 33-44. (10.3167/aia.2011.180304)
- Coffey, A. J. and Hall, T. A. eds. 2011. Researching young people. Fundamentals of Applied Research series. London: Sage.
2010
- Hall, T. A. 2010. Review essay: Shooting Billy Wordsworth [Book Review]. Cultural Sociology 4(2), pp. 291-304. (10.1177/1749975510368477)
- Hall, T. A. 2010. Urban outreach and the polyrhythmic city. In: Edensor, T. ed. Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 59-71.
- Hall, T. A., Coffey, A. J. and Lashua, B. 2010. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place. In: MacDonald, R., Shidrick, T. and Blackman, S. eds. Young people, class and place. Abingdon, UK: Routledge
2009
- Hall, T. A. 2009. Footwork: moving and knowing in local space(s). Qualitative Research 9(5), pp. 571-585. (10.1177/1468794109343626)
- Hall, T. A., Coffey, A. J. and Lashua, B. 2009. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place. Journal of Youth Studies 12(5), pp. 547-561. (10.1080/13676260903081665)
2008
- Hall, T. A., Lashua, B. and Coffey, A. J. 2008. Sound and the everyday in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry 14(6), pp. 1019-1040. (10.1177/1077800407312054)
- Hall, T. A. 2008. Hurt and the city: landscapes of urban violence. Social Anthropology 16(1), pp. 63-76. (10.1111/j.1469-8676.2008.00034.x)
2007
- Hall, T. A. and Coffey, A. J. 2007. Learning Selves and Citizenship: Gender and Youth Transitions. Journal of Social Policy 36(2), pp. 279-296. (10.1017/S0047279406000602)
2006
- Hall, T. A. 2006. Out of Work and House and Home: Contested Youth in an English Homeless Hostel. Ethnos 71(2), pp. 143-163. (10.1080/00141840600733660)
2005
- Hall, T. A. 2005. Not Miser, Not Monk, Begging, Benefits and the Free Gift. Sociological Research Online 10(4)
2003
- Hall, T. A. 2003. Better times than this: youth homelessness in Britain. Pluto Press.
2001
- Chaney, P., Hall, T. A. and Pithouse, A. J. eds. 2001. New governance - new democracy? Post-Devolution Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Articles
- Smith, R., Ablitt, J., Williams, J. and Hall, T. 2023. The coining of convivial public space: Homelessness, outreach work, and interaction order. Urban Planning 8(4), pp. 42-51. (10.17645/up.v8i4.6457)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2018. Everyday territories: homelessness, outreach work and city space. British Journal of Sociology 69(2), pp. 372-390. (10.1111/1468-4446.12280)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Mobilities at work: care, repair, movement and a fourfold typology. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 147-160. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1246897)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Pedestrian circulations: Urban ethnography, the mobilities paradigm and outreach work. Mobilities 11(4), pp. 498-508. (10.1080/17450101.2016.1211819)
- Wood, L. A., Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2016. Work on the move: editors' introduction to the special issue. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 139-146. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1250371)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Care and repair and the politics of urban kindness. Sociology 49(1), pp. 3-18. (10.1177/0038038514546662)
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2014. Knowing the city: maps, mobility and urban outreach work. Qualitative Research 14(3), pp. 294-310. (10.1177/1468794112469623)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2013. Stop and Go: A Field Study of Pedestrian Practice, Immobility and Urban Outreach Work. Mobilities 8(2), pp. 272-292. (10.1080/17450101.2012.659470)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2013. No time out: mobility, rhythmicity and urban patrol in the twenty-four hour city. The Sociological Review 61(S1), pp. 89-108. (10.1111/1467-954X.12055)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Walking, welfare and the good city. Anthropology in Action 18(3), pp. 33-44. (10.3167/aia.2011.180304)
- Hall, T. A. 2010. Review essay: Shooting Billy Wordsworth [Book Review]. Cultural Sociology 4(2), pp. 291-304. (10.1177/1749975510368477)
- Hall, T. A. 2009. Footwork: moving and knowing in local space(s). Qualitative Research 9(5), pp. 571-585. (10.1177/1468794109343626)
- Hall, T. A., Coffey, A. J. and Lashua, B. 2009. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place. Journal of Youth Studies 12(5), pp. 547-561. (10.1080/13676260903081665)
- Hall, T. A., Lashua, B. and Coffey, A. J. 2008. Sound and the everyday in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry 14(6), pp. 1019-1040. (10.1177/1077800407312054)
- Hall, T. A. 2008. Hurt and the city: landscapes of urban violence. Social Anthropology 16(1), pp. 63-76. (10.1111/j.1469-8676.2008.00034.x)
- Hall, T. A. and Coffey, A. J. 2007. Learning Selves and Citizenship: Gender and Youth Transitions. Journal of Social Policy 36(2), pp. 279-296. (10.1017/S0047279406000602)
- Hall, T. A. 2006. Out of Work and House and Home: Contested Youth in an English Homeless Hostel. Ethnos 71(2), pp. 143-163. (10.1080/00141840600733660)
- Hall, T. A. 2005. Not Miser, Not Monk, Begging, Benefits and the Free Gift. Sociological Research Online 10(4)
Book sections
- Hall, T. 2018. Homelessness and the city. In: Low, S. ed. The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 55-68.
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Seeing the need: urban outreach as sensory walking. In: Bates, C. and Rhys-Taylor, A. eds. Walking Through Social Research. New York: Routledge, pp. 39-53., (10.4324/9781315561547-4)
- Hall, T. A. 2010. Urban outreach and the polyrhythmic city. In: Edensor, T. ed. Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 59-71.
- Hall, T. A., Coffey, A. J. and Lashua, B. 2010. Steps and stages: rethinking transitions in youth and place. In: MacDonald, R., Shidrick, T. and Blackman, S. eds. Young people, class and place. Abingdon, UK: Routledge
Books
- Hall, T. 2016. Footwork: urban outreach and hidden lives. London: Pluto Press. (10.2307/j.ctt1jktrw6)
- Coffey, A. J. and Hall, T. A. eds. 2011. Researching young people. Fundamentals of Applied Research series. London: Sage.
- Hall, T. A. 2003. Better times than this: youth homelessness in Britain. Pluto Press.
- Chaney, P., Hall, T. A. and Pithouse, A. J. eds. 2001. New governance - new democracy? Post-Devolution Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Research
My research has included theoretically informed, empirical and ethnographic research in the following fields: homelessness and 'street' populations; spatial practices of urban care and repair; begging, benefits and gifts; youth transitions, biography and locality (including mixed methods work with young people), informal education and citizenship, devolved governance and the third (community) sector. I am also interested in the cultural sociology of urban and social exploration, (pedestrian) mobilities and mobile methods. These various interests converge on, and inform, a primary concern with the street-level experience and management of inequality in urban public space(s). A fieldwork monograph, Footwork, to be published later this year by Pluto Press, brings some of the above together into (I hope) a coherent whole.
Recent funded research has included:
- Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods (WISERD), a programme of primary research, data integration and capacity building in Wales jointly funded by the ESRC and the Welsh Assembly Government. I have direct responsibility for a research strand within the WISERD programme looking at the development and evaluation of innovative qualitative methods.
- Locality, Biography and Youth in a Transforming Community. Funded by the ESRC, this project explored the links between locality, community and biography for young people in areas undergoing economic and social transformation. (This project was affiliated to the Cardiff node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact.)Doctoral Supervision I have previously served as the School’s Director of Postgraduate Research, and continue to take a close interest in doctoral studies, supervising individual students across a range of fields and topics. I am always interested to hear from PhD looking to work on topics related to my research interests, beyond which I am happy to support doctoral candidates adopting an ethnographic approach to (almost) any empirical area of study.
Doctoral Supervision
I have previously served as the School’s Director of Postgraduate Research, and continue to take a close interest in doctoral studies, supervising individual students across a range of fields and topics. I am always interested to hear from PhD looking to work on topics related to my research interests, beyond which I am happy to support doctoral candidates adopting an ethnographic approach to (almost) any empirical area of study.
Teaching
I very much enjoy teaching, which I consider a delight and privilege. I have contributed to the School's undergraduate programme at all levels and across different schemes of study over the years, but primarily as a lecturer in sociology and (sometimes) social policy. Recent teaching includes the following modules:
- Metropolis: Urban Life and Consumer Culture;
- Ethnography and Everyday Life I have also contributed to taught postgraduate modules, including the MSc/Diploma in Social Science Research Methods, and to higher degree supervision.
I have also contributed to taught postgraduate modules, including the MSc/Diploma in Social Science Research Methods, and to higher degree supervision.