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Dr Abigail Schoneboom

Lecturer in Urban Planning, Degree Programme Director Geography and Planning

  • Email: abigail.schoneboom@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 4504
  • Personal Website:
  • Address: School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
    8th Floor, Room 8.26
    Henry Daysh Building
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    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
Background

I am an ethnographer whose research focuses on work, with a particular emphasis on cities, technology, sustainability and work-life boundaries. I am particularly interested in the relationship between urban space, wage labour and critical consciousness, with a growing focus on the connection between humans and nature.

I have worked on a diverse range of projects, including the ESRC-funded project, , the first major investigation in the UK into the increasing involvement of private companies in carrying out professional spatial planning work for local government.


Ph.D.: Hiding out: Creative resistance among anonymous workbloggers, Sociology, City University of New York (2008)

M.Eng. (combined B.A. and Master's) Engineering and Economics, Oxford University (1993)

Information about some of my other research projects can be found on my .

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Research

I have worked on a diverse range of projects, including the ESRC-funded project, , the first major investigation in the UK into the increasing involvement of private companies in carrying out professional spatial planning work for local government.

Information about some of my other research projects can be found on my .

Teaching
Information about my teaching philosophy and experience can be found on my .
Publications
  • Schoneboom A. . Ethnography 2018, 19(3), 360-378.
  • Schoneboom A. . Ephemera 2018, 18(4), 709-739.
  • Schoneboom A. . Organization 2015, 22(6), 832-846.
  • Schoneboom A. . Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 2013, 13(1), 137-150.
  • Schoneboom A. . New Technology, Work and Employment 2011, 26(1), 7-28.
  • Schoneboom A. . Work, Employment & Society 2011, 25(1), 132-140.
  • Mallo D, Schoneboom A, Tardiveau A, Vigar G. . Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2020, 63(13), 2446-2463.
  • Schoneboom A. . In: Evans G, ed. New Ethnographies of Post-Industrial Precarity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020.
  • Schoneboom A, Gunn S, Slade D. . Planning Theory and Practice 2020, 21(3). In Press.
  • Schoneboom A, Slade J. . Journal of Organizational Ethnography 2020, 9(3), 311-326.
  • Slade D, Gunn S, Schoneboom A. . London: Royal Town Planning Institute, 2019.
  • Mallo D, Schoneboom A, Tardiveau A. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne, UK: Â鶹´«Ã½, 2018.
  • Mallo D, Schoneboom A, Tardiveau A. Slow tech low tech: revealing senses and imagination through a pinhole. In: 13th Annual Ethnography Symposium - Copenhagen. 2018, Copenhagen. Submitted.