EDSOC Research Seminar - “Me without the mask”: Women’s Experiences of Early Sobriety
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St George's Building - Room SG 1.11
141 High Street Portsmouth PO1 2HY United KingdomDescription
Dr Emily Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Education and Sociology
Title: “Me without the mask”: Women’s Experiences of Early Sobriety
Abstract: This paper presents emerging findings from my ongoing research project ‘Sobriety Stories’, exploring the experiences of women who stop drinking and highlighting the ways in which they tell the ‘stories’ of their own journeys to sobriety. In particular, I will focus on how the participants frame their ‘drinking pasts’ and ‘sober presents’, and the ways in which sobriety is felt to facilitate the emergence of a more authentic, likeable and capable self. In this way, I will begin to unpick some of the links between alcohol, sobriety and identity emerging across my findings.
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Current research projects include collaborative work with local charities and councils on projects to do with young careleavers, cyberbullying, social and emotional aspects in relation to learning in schools and early years settings.
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