Dr Andrew Bengry

Personal statement

Andrew Bengry is a senior lecturer in Psychology at Bath Spa University. He has worked in higher education for over ten years and has held positions at the University of Bath, University of Southampton, National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and University of Birmingham.

His research interests are in youth and identity, and how culture contextualises and shapes social identification and identity construction processes. He has worked on projects that have investigated students’ experiences of higher education, parental perspectives on the sexual socialisation of children, innovation in qualitative research methodology, meanings attached to music festivals, alcohol marketing and young people’s drinking practices and alcohol and how motorcars are appropriated in the construction of young masculine identities. He is more broadly interested in qualitative research methodology and research ethics.

He has co-authored publications in a wide range of academic journals, including the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Qualitative Research, Journal of Youth Studies, Sociology, Feminism and Psychology, Sex Education, European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Drug Policy and Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. He has also co-authored book chapters, which have been published in edited volumes such as The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Psychology, Innovations in Youth Research, The Design History Reader, Festivalisation of Culture and Identity in the 21st Century: New Trends in Changing Times.

Teaching specialism

• Social and Cultural Psychology.