E-mail: simon.weaver@brunel.ac.uk. Simon’s research interests focus on a number of overlapping areas in sociology, communications and media studies. The need for organizational innovation as a means of improving health-care quality and containing costs is widely recognized, but while a growing body of research has improved knowledge of implementation, very little has considered the challenges involved in sustaining change – especially organizational change led ‘bottom-up’ by frontline clinicians. (ed.) E-mail: simon.weaver@brunel.ac.uk. Ozieranski, P., Robins, V., Minion, J., Willars, J., Wright, J., Weaver, S., Simon Weaver. Simon Weaveri and Lindsey Bradley “I haven’t heard anything about religion whatsoever”: Audience perceptions of ... Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK. By clicking on or navigating this site, you accept our use of cookies in accordance with our Brunel's Dr Simon Weaver has published a book chapter in Brunel.ac.uk uses cookies to make our site better for you.
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Dr Sharon Lockyer and Dr Tracey Platt Martin, GP., Currie, G., Weaver, S., Finn, R. and McDonald, R. 577 - 591. ISSN: 1367-8779 Open Access Link This is the authors’ accepted manuscript of a forthcoming article to be published in HUMOR 2016. The argument presented is that the ‘situational irony’ of Brexit – one that both presents and hides neoliberal tendencies - is reinforced by the various ‘textual’ or ‘postmodern ironies’ of the discourse – or the actual imaginings of Brexit expressed in public discourse. Simon Weaver's 13 research works with 186 citations and 1,433 reads, including: Introduction: Tricksters, humour and activism
Comedians have responded to the ironies of Brexit discourse and are predominantly anti-Brexit or highly critical of Brexit politicians.
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Comedy in times of crisis: The case of COVID-19 . ISBN 10: 1498569846. Try again later.The following articles are merged in Scholar. Dr Simon Weaver discusses comedy and Brexit for a BBC News report on laughing about Brexit Simon Weaver’s profile on The Conversation. He started at Brunel as a Lecturer in Media and Communications in April 2012 and became a Senior Lecturer in October 2017.Simon completed his PhD in the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, with a thesis entitled Between his PhD and arriving at Brunel, 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.Research Seminar Series Coordinator for Sociology and Communications Study . 2 criticism and protest from various groups (Kelso 2002; Walker in Howells 2006: 161) but have also been described as satiric and anti-racist (Rojek 2001; Howells 2006), Both Brexit irony and comic responses highlight the significance of the comic and in public understandings of Brexit, for both leave and remain supporters. Martin, GP., Weaver, S., Currie, G., Finn, R. and McDonald, R. The system can't perform the operation now. Dr Simon Weaver is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Brunel.
Home; My Lists; My Bookmarks; Feedback; Log In; Accessibility ; Simon Weaver. He is currently writing a book on the relationship between populism and comedy. By clicking on or navigating this site, you accept our use of cookies in accordance with our The chapter outlines both the populist construction of Brexit discourse and the existence of internal contradictions, ambiguities or incongruities in it that are accurately characterised as ironies.
International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19 (5). He 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 (2007). The ones marked Health Services Management Research 25 (4), 190-199E Pitchforth, S Weaver, J Willars, E Wawrzkowicz, D Luyt, M Dixon-WoodsEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies 14 (3), 249-264International Journal of Cultural Studies 19 (5), 479-485P Ozieranski, V Robins, J Minion, J Willars, J Wright, S Weaver, GP Martin, ...The system can't perform the operation now. Previous research has examined racist and offensive joking, and the use of humour as rhetoric. Dr Simon Weaver discusses comedy and Brexit for a BBC News report on laughing about Brexit.