Dr James Rosbrook-Thompson
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About
Overview
James Rosbrook-Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology. His research focuses on serious youth violence, informality, 'race', ethnicity, and superdiversity. He has published widely on these topics, including two research monographs and papers in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals. His most recent book (co-authored with Dr Gary Armstrong), 'Multi-Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry', was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. He is Assistant Editor of Urbanities: Journal of Urban Ethnography.
Qualifications
- PGCert, Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom, September 2012 - June 2013
- PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, September 2006 - June 2011
- MA, School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom, 2005 - September 2006
- BSc, Brunel University London, United Kingdom, September 2002 - June 2005
Research students
2ndsupervisor
- Sylwia Wypyska-Kieran, Research Student
Publications
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Books (3)
- Armstrong, G., Rosbrook-Thompson, J. and Lindsay, I. (2021). Power Plays. Academia – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 9783896659040.
- Rosbrook-Thompson, J., Gary, A. and Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2018). Multi-Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2013). Sport, Difference and Belonging. Routledge.
Chapters (4)
- Armstrong, G., Rosbrook-Thompson, J. and Collison, H. (2019). Liberia Tournaments and T-shirts. ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE (pp. 474-483). ISBN 9781138210486.
- Rosbrook-Thompson, J. and Armstrong, G. (2018). The Beginnings and the Ends: A ‘Superdiverse’ London Housing Estate. The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography (pp. 113-131). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783319642888.
- Armstrong, G. and Rosbrook‐Thompson, J. (2015). Football Hooliganism. (pp. 1-3). Wiley. ISBN 9781405189781.
- Armstrong, G. and Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2011). Managing urban disorder?: "The street" and its malcontents in the London borough of Camden. Young Men in Uncertain Times (pp. 265-293).
Journal articles (13)
- Armstrong, G. and Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2024). The Sense of an Ending: Ageing and Coping in the Words of the Boys. Urbanities, 14(1), pp. 51-65
- Armstrong, G. and Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2022). Interrogating the Public Health Approach: Lessons from the Field of Urban Violence. Urbanities, 12, pp. 85-91
- Rosbrook‐Thompson, J. and Armstrong, G. (2022). Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross‐racial deployment of intra‐ethnic stereotypes. The British Journal of Sociology, 73(2), pp. 259-272. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12922
- Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2021). The construction and understanding of mixed-race identities at a superdiverse youth football club: Hybridity, confusion and contra-fusion. The Sociological Review, 69(2), pp. 365-381. doi:10.1177/0038026120915159
- Armstrong, G., Rosbrook-Thompson, J. and Hobbs, D. (2020). Dislocation and Criminality: The 'Lithuanian Problem' in East London. URBANITIES-JOURNAL OF URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY, 10, pp. 51-68
- Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2019). Legitimacy, urban violence and the public health approach. Urbanities, 9, pp. 37-43
- Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2018). Understanding Difference amid Superdiversity: Space, ‘Race’ and Granular Essentialisms at an Inner-City Football Club. Sociology, 52(4), pp. 639-654. doi:10.1177/0038038516660039
- Armstrong, G. and Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2017). ‘Squashing the Beef’: Combatting Gang Violence and Reforming Masculinity in East London. Contemporary Social Science, 12(3-4), pp. 285-296. doi:10.1080/21582041.2017.1385833
- James, G.A. and Rosbrook-Thompson, (2016). Faith, space and selfhood in East London 'Youth gang' culture. Urbanities, 6(2), pp. 18-38
- Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2015). ‘I’m local and foreign’: Belonging, the city and the case for denizenship. Urban Studies, 52(9), pp. 1615-1630. doi:10.1177/0042098014540347
- Armstrong, G. and Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2012). Terrorizing defences: Sport in the Liberian civil conflict. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 47(3), pp. 358-378. doi:10.1177/1012690211433480
- Armstrong, G. and Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2010). Coming to America: Historical Ontologies and United States Soccer. Identities, 17(4), pp. 348-371. doi:10.1080/1070289x.2010.492295
- Rosbrook-Thompson, J. and Armstrong, G. (2010). FIELDS AND VISIONS. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 7(2), pp. 293-314. doi:10.1017/s1742058x10000299
Reports (3)
- Greer, C., Rosbrook-Thompson, J. and Sleet, A. (2024). The Disproportionality Leadership and Mentoring Project: Capturing the Lived Experience of Disproportionality among Children and Young People from Black, Mixed-Heritage and Minoritised Backgrounds across Four London Boroughs..
- Greer, C., Rosbrook-Thompson, J. and Armstrong, G. (2020). The Disproportionality Project: Addressing issues relating to the disproportionately high representation of Islington’s and Haringey’s BAME young people in the Criminal Justice System. London: Youth Justice Board.
- Greer, C., Rosbrook-Thompson, J., Armstrong, G., Ilan, J., McLaughlin, E., Myers, C.-.A.... Taylor, E. (2019). Enhancing the work of the Islington Integrated Gangs Team: A pilot study on the response to serious youth violence in Islington. London, UK: Centre for City Criminology, City, University of London.