Biography

Charlie Leddy-Owen joined the University of Portsmouth in September 2013 shortly after being awarded his PhD from the University of Surrey. Before then he completed an MRes in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict from Birkbeck, University of London and a BSocSc in Politics from the University of Manchester.

Research interests

Since 2014 Charlie has written numerous journal articles and a book – Nationalism, Inequalities and England’s Political Predicament – exploring racism and nationalism in contemporary England. He has recently worked on an AHRC/EPSRC funded project which saw the creation of an immersive simulation of the experience of gaining asylum in Britain, and an Institute for Strategic Dialogue/Google.org funded series of refugee-centred arts events.

Research outputs

2023

Making space for solidarity: the transformative role of shame in challenging racialised hegemony

Wolf, O., Brown, J., Leddy‐owen, C., Martin, D.

1 Mar 2023, In: Area. 55, 1, p. 108-115

Research output: Article

2022

‘Slaughterhouse cattle are treated better than this’: exploring the salience of everyday nationhood at British airports

Leddy-Owen, C., Dennis, J., Siklodi, N.

5 Sep 2022, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 45, 16, p. 544-567

Research output: Article

2020

Bringing the state back into the sociology of nationalism: the persona ficta is political

Leddy-Owen, C.

1 Dec 2020, In: Sociology. 54, 6, p. 1088-1104, 17p.

Research output: Article

Understating the (nationalist) state: a response to my reviewers

Leddy-Owen, C.

8 Oct 2020, In: Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 8p.

Research output: Article

Nationalism, postcolonial criticism and the state

Leddy-Owen, C.

25 Feb 2020,

Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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