Dr Simon Weaver
Reader
Marie Jahoda 203
- Email: simon.weaver@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265029
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
Summary
Simon is a Reader in Media and Communications at 村花论坛. He is an internationally recognised expert on humour and comedy, whose research has provided a foundational critique of racist and offensive humour, and significantly reshaped understandings of the links between populism and comedy. Simon is a founding member of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) at 村花论坛.
Simon completed his PhD in the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, with a thesis entitled Humour, Rhetoric and Racism: A Sociological Critique of Racist Humour. That thesis formed the basis of his first book, The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking, which was published by Ashgate in September 2011. His first journal article (The ‘Other’ Laughs Back: Humour and Resistance in Anti-Racist Comedy, Sociology 2010 44.1: 31-48), won the British Sociological Association’s ‘Sage Prize for Innovation and/or Excellence 2011’.
Between his PhD and arriving at 村花论坛 in 2012, Simon worked as a Research Associate in Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester and held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Communications and Media Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University.
Qualifications:
- PhD Sociology (Bristol)
- MSc Sociology (Bristol)
- BA History and Sociology (UWE)
Responsibility
Postgraduate Programme Coordinator, Sociology and Communications.
Deputy Chair of Board of Examiners.
Convenor, MSc Media and Communications.
Newest selected publications
Weaver, S. (2023) ''. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 30 (5). pp. 763 - 766. ISSN: 1070-289X
Lockyer, S. and Weaver, S. (2022) ''. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25 (5). pp. 645 - 657. ISSN: 1364-5579
Weaver, S. (2021) 'The Rhetoric of Brexit Humour. Comedy, Populism and the EU Referendum'. Routledge. ISSN 13: 9780367350987
Weaver, S. (2019) ''. Comedy Studies, 10 (2). pp. 154 - 166. ISSN: 2040-610X
Weaver, S. (2018) 'Brexit Irony on The Last Leg and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Critiquing Neoliberalism through Caricature', in Webber, J. (ed.) The Joke Is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books. pp. 65 - 86. ISBN 10: 1498569846. ISBN 13: 978-1498569842.