Dr Cinnamon Bennett PhD, MA, PGCert Teaching in HE
Principal Lecturer, Group Leader
Summary
Cinnamon has worked as an academic and a policy maker, both with a focus on gender equality.
About
As a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Cinnamon teaches at all levels of the curriculum on specialist electives such as 'Work, Employment and Globalization' and on core modules covering sociological theory and research methods. Interspersed with her academic career, she managed the allocation of funding as part of the Objective 1 Programme South Yorkshire, which aimed to tackle gender imbalances in the labour market and to achieve gender mainstreaming in all interventions.
She has also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, managing a number of UK wide projects which explored the engagement of carers in employment and the response of employers to their circumstances. She is currently the Group Leader of the Sociology section working with a team of committed staff to deliver excellent teaching, and employability skills and opportunities to students undertaking BA (Hons) Sociology, BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology and BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sociology, Masters in Public Health, and Masters in Research Programme (cross discipline).
Specialist areas of interest
Gender and the labour market
Gender in science education and careers
Gender in organisations
Equal opportunities policies and practices, gender mainstreaming
Women's role in government and governance
Sociology of the body
Social theory
Philosophies of research
Publications
Journal articles
Beatty, C., Bennett, C., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Managing precarity: food bank use by low-income women workers in a changing welfare regime. Social Policy and Administration: an international journal of policy and research, 55 (5), 981-1000. http://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12707
Dean, J., Furness, P., Verrier, D., Lennon, H., Bennett, C., & Spencer, S. (2018). Desert island data: an investigation into researcher positionality. Qualitative Research, 18 (3), 273-289. http://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117714612
Stiell, B., Tang, N., Bennett, C., & Price, C. (2006). Building Policy/Research Relationships: Using Innovative Methodologies to Engage Ethnic Minority Women. Local Economy, 21 (2), 211-218. http://doi.org/10.1080/02690940600679219
Book chapters
Bennett, C., & Tang, N. (2008). Tough at the top: women's career progression, an example in the local government sector. In Yeandle, S. (Ed.) Policy for a Change: Local Labour Market Analysis and Gender Equality. Bristol: Policy Press: https://policypress.co.uk/policy-for-a-change
Other activities
Cinnamon is a member of the British Sociology Society.