Nathan’s current research has focused on young people, digital exclusion, housing inequalities in the private rented sector, experiences of families of prisoners, and green spaces. His research projects include:
- 2023: Nuffield Foundation: Gypsy, Roma, Traveler Youth: Mitigating Exclusions using the Digital (£255K, Co-I)
- 2023: Himaya Haven CIC: BAME Families of Prisoners (£5K, PI)
- 2023: Birmingham City Council: Enabling a Digital Birmingham Evaluation (£5K, PI)
- 2021: Walsall Council: Private Rented Sector (PRS) research on the impact of Universal Credit on evictions and abandonments across the Black Country Sub-Region (£9K, PI)
- 2018: Garden Organic: Evaluation of the Master Gardener Programme on alleviating food poverty in deprived urban communities (£17.5k, Co-I)
- 2017: Coventry University Pump-Priming: The role of advocacy in supporting young carers (£8k, Co-I)
- 2016: Coventry University Pump-Priming: Exploring the 2015 UK General Election and Brexit (£10k, Co-I)
Nathan is currently supervising five PhD students:
Student: Beenish Ameer
Thesis Topic: The impact of Brexit on the lived experiences of migrant-owned businesses in rural Scotland in relation to welcoming by the Scottish government and ‘host’ rural communities.
Role: Director of Studies
Student: Ronald Winch
Thesis Topic: Policing, Ethics and AI
Role: Director of Studies
Student: Abigail Shaw
Thesis Topic: Community engagement and participation concerning the achievement of desistance for African and Caribbean women with offending histories in Birmingham.
Role: Director of Studies
Student: Maxwell Ayamba
Thesis Topic: People of Black African ancestry’ ‘lived experience’ and use of the Peak District National Park – comparative study of two English Cities.
Role: External Second Supervisor
Student: Julia Lurfova
Thesis Topic: Ethnography of ‘jam’ music spaces
Role: Second Supervisor
Books
Kerrigan, N., Jones, S. (In Press; 2024). Urban Greening, Informal Social Control, and the Working Class: Keep Off the Grass. London: Routledge.
Kerrigan, N., Breen, D., and Bakkali, Y. (In Press; 2024). Liquid Racism: Education, Brexit, and Black Youth Culture. Bristol: Policy Press.
Kerrigan, N., and de Lima, P. (2023). The Rural-Migration Nexus: Global Problems, Rural Issues. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Nahaboo, Z., Kerrigan, N. (2021). Migrants, Borders, and The European Question: The Calais Jungle. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-Macmillan
Kerrigan, N. (2018). A Threatened Rural Idyll? Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English countryside. Wilmington: Vernon Press.
Book Chapters
O’Sullivan, A., and Kerrigan, N. (In Press; 2024). ‘Rebels in Society? Street Politics and Organic Intellectuals in the UK Oi! punk scene during the Miners’ Strike 1984-85’. In. Blackman, S., (CCC), Raine, S., Hamilton, C., and McPherson, R. (Eds.) Popular Music Ethnographies. London: Intellect.
Kerrigan, N. (2023). ‘Student Producers Ain’t No Losers: Zine-making in a sociology and criminology classroom’. In. Stewart, F., and Way L. (Eds) Punk Pedagogies in Practice: disruptions and connections. London: Intellect Book
Kerrigan, N. (2020) ‘Disability, Age, the British Countryside and Social Exclusion’. In. Kelly, C.; Aubrecht, K.; Rice, C (Eds). Disability/Aging Nexus. Toronto: British Columbia Press.
Kerrigan, N. (2019). ‘Rural Racism in a digital age’. In. Harmer, E., and Lumsdem, K. (Eds) Online Othering: exploring the dark side of the web. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Journal articles
Brown, G., and Kerrigan, N. (Under Review). ‘“She was a lifeline, she rescued me”: Understanding the knowledge and need of Young Carers Advocacy’. In International Journal of Care and Caring.
Kerrigan, N. (In Press; 2024). ‘Rural– Space, Place, and Intersectionality’. In. Sociologia Ruralis - Special Issue: Place and Space in Social Research: Rurality and Intersectionality.
Bradshaw, D., Brown, G., and Kerrigan, N. (In Press; 2024). ‘Sandwell Advocacy and informal community-based advocacy’. In. Societies - Special Issue ‘Vulnerable Groups Protection and Rights for Advocacy: From the Perspectives of Community-Based Policy Making and Initiatives’.
Edited Special Issues
Tomas, C., Kerrigan, N., Philips, J., Krivokapic-Skoko, B., Flynn, S., and Gorriss-Hunter, A. (Eds). (In Press; 2024). ‘Special Issue: Place and Space in Social Research: Rurality and Intersectionality’. In. Sociologia Ruralis.
Brown, G., and Kerrigan, N. (In Press; 2024). ‘Special Issue: Vulnerable Groups Protection and Rights for Advocacy: From the Perspectives of Community-Based Policy Making and Initiatives’. In. Societies.
Reports
Kerrigan, N., Jones, S., and Riley, T. (2023). Private Rented Sector (PRS) Research: The Impact of Universal Credit on Eviction and/or Abandonments Across the Black Country Sub-Region. Birmingham: Birmingham City University.
Brown, G., Kerrigan, N., and Fried, J. (2019). The Master Gardener Programme working with urban communities: Garden Organic’s London Food Poverty Project. Coventry University: Coventry
Brown, G., and Kerrigan, N. (2018). Who cares for the carer: Exploring the role of advocacy in supporting young carers. Coventry University: Coventry
