Laura Way

Laura is a sociologist with particular interest in ageing, gender, and qualitative methodologies. After an undergraduate degree in sociology Laura completed a MA in women's studies before training to teach sociology in the post-compulsory sector. Alongside teaching positions Laura then completed an additional MA (this time in education) followed by a PhD with the University of Leicester in sociology. Her PhD drew upon a life-course perspective and utilised qualitative methods to explore ageing and the construction of gender amongst 'older' punk women. Laura joined the University of Lincoln as a Research Fellow at the start of 2020 on a UKRI funded project titled 'Following Young Fathers Further'. This is a four year study which aims to extend existing longitudinal evidence concerning the parenting trajectories and support needs of young men (aged 25 and under). Laura’s monograph Punk, Gender and Ageing: Just Typical Girls? (2020) is published with Emerald Press and other publications include the forthcoming co-edited collection Punk Pedagogies (with Francis Stewart), ‘“I don’t go to the gigs to go to the gigs – I don’t give a shit about the gigs!” Exploring music and older punk women,’ (2019) in Punk & Post-Punk and ‘Playing A-Minor in the Punk Scene?’ (2014) in Worley, M. (ed) Fight Back: Punk, Politics and Resistance. She was awarded FHEA in 2018 and is a member of the British Sociological Association.