Jo is Senior Lecturer in Applied Sociology at the University of Sheffield. She has researched and written about the meaning and role of race, racism and identity in different contexts. She has a long-standing interest in Muslim minorities, focusing on changing gender and generational relationships in Muslim families, belonging and identity, and multiculturalism, cohesion and integration. This has included researching the impact of child sexual exploitation abuse scandals on Muslim men. Jo's current research interests also include a focus on inter-generational relations and critical whiteness studies.
She has written about motherhood, whiteness and identity in mixed race families and was co-investigator on a research project exploring young and older people’s understanding of generational positions and relationships.
Jo is co-investigator on an ESRC project exploring ethnicity and unequal ageing in Rotherham and Sheffield. The project is a unique cross-sector collaboration which includes working in partnership with Black, Minority Ethnic and Refugee communities.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4090 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5786-9637 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Sheffield
University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Senior Lecturer -
University of Sheffield
University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Lecturer in Applied Sociology -
University of Manchester
University, Manchester, United Kingdom
Research Fellow
Research
Being an insider and outsider: whiteness as a key dimension of difference
| Authors | Joanne Britton |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | QUALITATIVE RESEARCH |
| Citations (WoS) | 18 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Brown bodies, white babies: the politics of cross-racial surrogacy
| Authors | Joanne Britton |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Challenging the racialization of child sexual exploitation: Muslim men, racism and belonging in Rotherham
| Authors | Joanne Britton |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity and Gender in Britain – By Joanna Herbert
| Authors | Joanne Britton |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |