Dr David Nettleingham

Dr David Nettleingham joined the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research as a Lecturer in 2012, but has been a member of the School for much longer as both student and teacher. He studied at Kent for a BA in Sociology and Philosophy (2006), an MA in Sociology (2007) and a PhD in Sociology (2013).

He was Sociologist-in-Residence and a visiting tutor at The Margate School - a postgraduate art school - from 2022-24, and is an exhibiting artist as well as a sociologist. 

Dr Nettleingham’s research ranges across a number of areas: the politics of memory and storytelling; heritage practices, deindustrialisation and changing understandings of ‘nature’; the relationship between sociology and art; and radical cultural movements. He specialises in oral historical, archival and creative methods. 

He is interested in the relationship between academic research, public engagement and meaningful social change, and regularly holds community workshops and skills training sessions, installations, and other public-facing events as part of his academic practice. 

Dr Nettleingham currently convenes and teaches on Narrative, Myth and Cultural Memory; Modern Culture; Popular Culture, Media and Society; the Creative Project; and the Cultural Studies Dissertation. He also contributes teaching on the Research Dissertation; Sociological Theory: the Classics; Sociology of Everyday Life; and The Sociology of Time.

Dr Nettleingham welcomes supervision enquires in the areas of cultural memory and heritage, autobiography, social and cultural history, deindustrialisation, creative approaches to sociology, and oral history.