Dr Sam Lawton

  • Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

Biography

I research bisexuality from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociological, feminist and queer approaches. I'm currently project managing Bisexuality Today: Understanding Attitudes, Protective Factors, and Risk Factors for an Often Invisble Sexual Minority, an Independent Social Research Foundation Small Group Project Grant. I also write, edit and publish as part of the Interregnum collective.

In 2023, I completed my PhD in Sociology, which was an original project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and generously supported by a Scottish Graduate School of Social Science studentship. My thesis is entitled Bi+ Men and Their Intimate Partners: Sexual Identities, Intimate Relationships and Binegativity.

I teach introductory sociology and research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels here at the School of Social and Political Sciences.

Research interests

  • The Sociology of Sexuality
  • Bisexuality
  • Asexuality
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Masculinities
  • Queer Theory
  • Prejudice, Discrimination and Stigma
  • Postmodernism and Metamodernism
  • Anarchism
  • Political Sociology

Publications

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Number of items: 18.

2024

Lawton-Westerland, S. , Cohen, R., Castro, A. and Sollberger, D. (2024) Roundtable on Bi+ Masculinities. 3rd International Bisexuality Research Conference, 5-6 October 2024.

Lawton, S. (2024) UK Election Autopsy: Zombie Democracy Shambling Towards Fascism. [Website]

Norberg, I. , Hoff, I. , Humphrey, H. and Lawton, S. (2024) Early Career Research Panel: Intersectional Method and Building a Research Career. Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity, ARC Studio 2, University of Glasgow, 25 March 2024.

Lawton, S. J. (2024) Bisexual Masculinities in the Context of Intimacy, Prejudice and Identity Negotiation. 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association Tension, Trust and Transformation, Porto, Portugal, 27-30 Aug 2024.

2023

Lawton, S. (2023) British Bisexual Men and Their Intimate Partners: Identities, Relationships and Prejudice. CIVIS Gender Studies Network Lecture, 13 December 2023.

Theodoropoulos, P. and Lawton, S. (2023) Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow. Sociology Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK, 15 Nov 2023.

Lawton-Westerland, S. (2023) Remembering the Radical Nurses Group. [Website]

Lawton, S. J. (2023) Session 4c. Bi+ Spaces. Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group (SSQRG) Reading Retreat, Manchester, UK, 17-19 May 2023.

2022

Lawton, S. (2022) The Positivist Dispute Resolved? Sociology and Politics after Cambridge Analytica. Sociology Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK, 16 Nov 2022.

2021

Engelberg, J., Lawton, S. and Shaw, J. (2021) The futile search for ‘physiological evidence’ of male bisexuality: a response to Jabbour et al. (2020). Psychology of Sexualities Review, 12(2),

Lawton, S. (2021) Bisexuality, Religion and Spirituality: Critical Perspectives Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and Alex Toft (Editors) Routledge, 2020, Hardback: £120.00 / eBook: £33.29, 210 Pages, 2 B/W Illustrations ISBN: 9780367030209. Psychology of Sexualities Review, 12(2), (doi: 10.53841/bpssex.2021.12.2.55)[Book Review]

Lawton, S. (2021) Intimate Reflections: How My Relationship Helped to Shape My Research Approach. [Website]

Shaw, J., Engelberg, J., Bowes-Catton, H., Lawton, S. , Theos, E., Bengry, J. and Delacour, M. (2021) Demystifying bisexuality: exploring new research. Demystifying bisexuality: exploring new research, Online, 26 Feb 2021.

2020

Oakley, L., Byrne, A. and Lawton, S. (2020) Being a Bi Man, Becoming a Bi Dad and Celebrities who publicly turn their back on being bi. [Audio]

Lawton, S. (2020) Beyond Passing and Invisibility: Bisexual Camouflage. Bisexual Research Group Meeting, 14 July 2020.

Lawton, S. (2020) Bi+ Men: Sam Lawton on bi+ men's relationships, experiences of prejudice, and negotiations of identity. [Website]

2019

Lawton, S. (2019) EastEnders: arrival of a bisexual character is welcome – if the stereotypes can be avoided. Conversation, 4 Oct.

2018

Lawton, S. (2018) Integrating Psychological and Sociological Conceptualizations of Sexual Prejudice. BPS Psychology of Sexualities 20th Anniversary Conference 1998-2018: Reflecting Back, Looking Forwards, British Psychological Society, London, United Kingdom, 6 July 2018. (doi: 10.53841/bpssex.2018.9.2.23)

This list was generated on Thu Nov 21 02:48:03 2024 GMT.
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Number of items: 18.

Articles

Engelberg, J., Lawton, S. and Shaw, J. (2021) The futile search for ‘physiological evidence’ of male bisexuality: a response to Jabbour et al. (2020). Psychology of Sexualities Review, 12(2),

Lawton, S. (2019) EastEnders: arrival of a bisexual character is welcome – if the stereotypes can be avoided. Conversation, 4 Oct.

Book Reviews

Lawton, S. (2021) Bisexuality, Religion and Spirituality: Critical Perspectives Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and Alex Toft (Editors) Routledge, 2020, Hardback: £120.00 / eBook: £33.29, 210 Pages, 2 B/W Illustrations ISBN: 9780367030209. Psychology of Sexualities Review, 12(2), (doi: 10.53841/bpssex.2021.12.2.55)[Book Review]

Conference or Workshop Item

Lawton-Westerland, S. , Cohen, R., Castro, A. and Sollberger, D. (2024) Roundtable on Bi+ Masculinities. 3rd International Bisexuality Research Conference, 5-6 October 2024.

Norberg, I. , Hoff, I. , Humphrey, H. and Lawton, S. (2024) Early Career Research Panel: Intersectional Method and Building a Research Career. Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity, ARC Studio 2, University of Glasgow, 25 March 2024.

Lawton, S. J. (2024) Bisexual Masculinities in the Context of Intimacy, Prejudice and Identity Negotiation. 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association Tension, Trust and Transformation, Porto, Portugal, 27-30 Aug 2024.

Lawton, S. (2023) British Bisexual Men and Their Intimate Partners: Identities, Relationships and Prejudice. CIVIS Gender Studies Network Lecture, 13 December 2023.

Theodoropoulos, P. and Lawton, S. (2023) Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow. Sociology Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK, 15 Nov 2023.

Lawton, S. J. (2023) Session 4c. Bi+ Spaces. Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group (SSQRG) Reading Retreat, Manchester, UK, 17-19 May 2023.

Lawton, S. (2022) The Positivist Dispute Resolved? Sociology and Politics after Cambridge Analytica. Sociology Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK, 16 Nov 2022.

Shaw, J., Engelberg, J., Bowes-Catton, H., Lawton, S. , Theos, E., Bengry, J. and Delacour, M. (2021) Demystifying bisexuality: exploring new research. Demystifying bisexuality: exploring new research, Online, 26 Feb 2021.

Lawton, S. (2020) Beyond Passing and Invisibility: Bisexual Camouflage. Bisexual Research Group Meeting, 14 July 2020.

Lawton, S. (2018) Integrating Psychological and Sociological Conceptualizations of Sexual Prejudice. BPS Psychology of Sexualities 20th Anniversary Conference 1998-2018: Reflecting Back, Looking Forwards, British Psychological Society, London, United Kingdom, 6 July 2018. (doi: 10.53841/bpssex.2018.9.2.23)

Audio

Oakley, L., Byrne, A. and Lawton, S. (2020) Being a Bi Man, Becoming a Bi Dad and Celebrities who publicly turn their back on being bi. [Audio]

Website

Lawton, S. (2024) UK Election Autopsy: Zombie Democracy Shambling Towards Fascism. [Website]

Lawton-Westerland, S. (2023) Remembering the Radical Nurses Group. [Website]

Lawton, S. (2021) Intimate Reflections: How My Relationship Helped to Shape My Research Approach. [Website]

Lawton, S. (2020) Bi+ Men: Sam Lawton on bi+ men's relationships, experiences of prejudice, and negotiations of identity. [Website]

This list was generated on Thu Nov 21 02:48:03 2024 GMT.

Grants

ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups: Bisexuality Today: Understanding Attitudes, Protective Factors, and Risk Factors for an Often Invisible Sexual Minority. Independent Social Research Foundation. Record of grant. 

ESRC Open Competition PhD Studentship funding: Sexual Prejudice Against Bisexual Men: Barriers to Initiating and Maintaining Relationships. 2017-2021 Record of Grant Grant Number: 1972004

Supervision

Please email greti-iulia.ivana@glasgow.ac.uk if you are looking for a PhD supervisor. I am willing to co-supervise projects that match my research interests. I cannot act as primary supervisor, as I am a junior member of staff.

I have supervised dissertation projects on the following degree programmes:

MSc Global Mental Health

MSc International Journalism

MSc Digital Sociology

MRes Equality and Human Rights

MA Sociology

Teaching

Modules that I Teach on:

Sociology 1A: Self & Society

Sociology 1B: Critical Research in Contemporary Societies

Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Postgraduate Researcher Research Design

Teaching Experience

Tutor - Nuffield Research Placements 2021 Glasgow Q-Step Centre, University of Glasgow. 

Tutor - Intercultural Understanding and Emotional Resilience Microcredential Course 2021 (Online) at the University of Glasgow

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Honours-level) 2019-2021 at  the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Tutor (Cover) - Research Design (PGT) 2019 at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Honours-level) 2019-2020 at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. 

Academic Assistant - Open University Psychology Summer School 2013-2014. 


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