Dr Sarah Parry

Personal statement:

I am a sociologist with an interest in care – as an ethical and political concern – for generating new agendas for understanding and responding to our socioecological crises. Previous research has focused on relations between gender and sustainability in affluent countries, particularly at the household scale, and interactions between social science in environmental public policy processes. My research utilises qualitative methods, has often involved interdisciplinary collaborations, and has engaged a wide variety of stakeholders.

Key topic areas of research or interest:

Socioecological care
Gender and sustainability
Community collaborations
The role of music in sustainable transformations

Publications:

Parry S, Murphy J. (2022) Gender and sustainability in our home: A collaborative autoethnography linking experience, scholarship and progressive politics. Families, Relationships and Societies. 12(3): 341-356.
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/frs/12/3/article-p341.xml

de Wilde M, Parry S. (2022) Feminised concern or feminist Care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living. The Sociological Review, 70(3): 526-546.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261221080110

Murphy J, Parry S. (2021) Gender, households and sustainability: Disentangling and re-entangling with the help of ‘work’ and ‘care’. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(3): 1099–1120.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2514848620948432

Murphy J, Parry S and Walls J (2016) The EPSRC’s policy of responsible innovation from a trading zones perspective. Minerva, 54(2): 151–174.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-016-9294-9

Parry S, Murphy J. (2015) Problematizing interactions between social science and public policy. Critical Policy Studies. 9(1): 97-107
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19460171.2014.964277

Parry S, Murphy J. (2013) Towards a framework for analyzing interactions between social science and environmental policy. Evidence and Policy. 9(4): 531-546.
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/evp/9/4/article-p531.xml

Parry S. (2010) Interspecies Entities and the Politics of Nature. The Sociological Review. 1(58): 113-129.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01914.x