Alex FentonAlex joined the centre in May 2006. Before this he has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Education and the LSE, and as an independent consultant. Previous projects include research on family settlement in new and renewal urban housing developments, a review of the literature on ‘mixed communities’ in housing, and ethnographic work with credit unions exploring their response to regulatory change and financial inclusion policy initiatives. His current interests centre around the neighbourhood configurations of national patterns of class and disadvantage, and how these structure and are mediated by the lived experience of residents. Other interests include material culture, architecture, the anthropology of the house, economic anthropology, and computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. He designed and wrote the qualitative data analysis software package, Weft QDA (http://www.pressure.to/qda/). He holds an MA in Social Anthropology from Edinburgh, and an MSc in Research Methods from Surrey. |
