Ben Gidley is a Senior Researcher at COMPAS, primarily working on projects in the Citizenship and Belonging, Urban Change and Settlement, and Welfare clusters.
He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of London. His research has included ethnographic and policy-focused research on contemporary urban multiculture, and historical research on Jewish migrants in East London.
His research interests include the impact of new forms of diversity on local contexts in the UK; both new and old forms of intolerance and conviviality; and the politics of migrant citizenship and belonging, both today and historically.
Selected publications
Gidley, B. (2012) 'Faith Communities and Racism: Some Reflections from the Anglo-Jewish Experience', Runnymede Perspectives: Secularism, Racism and the Politics of Belonging, 56-60
Gidley, B. (2012) 'Monitoring Integration in the UK', in Bijl R. and Verweij, A. (Eds), Monitoring Integration in Europe. Comparison and analysis of measurement (‘monitoring’) systems on integration of ethnic minorities, The Hague: Netherlands
Gidley, B. (2011) 'Cultures of marginality and translation', in Halliday P. and Dobson, S. (eds), Studying The City: Exploring Experience, Politics and Ethnography, London: Palgrave.
Gidley, B. and Jayaweera, H. (2010) 'An Evidence Base on Migration and Integration in London'. London: GLA.
Kahn- Harris K, and Gidley B. (2010) Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today. London: Continuum (Review by Jewish Quarterly, Review by The Jewish Chronicle)
Gidley, B. (2009) 'A note on the awkwardness of the ethnographer', Sociological Review, 57(3): 526–29. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2009.01853.x
Mayo, M., Blake, B., Diamond, J., Foot, J., Gidley, B., Shukra, K. and Yarnit M. (2009) 'Community empowerment and community cohesion: parallel agendas for community building in England?' Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice, 18(1): 23-43.