Centre for the Study of Women and Gender Events

We are deeply saddened by the news that Dr Carol Wolkowitz, one of the founder members of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, and a member of the CSWG Collective, has died. Carol’s research was in the area of gender and work and she developed an original and highly influential analysis of body work in her book Bodies at Work which was published in 2006; in it she combined her interest in work with her enthusiasm for the visual as a mode of sociological analysis. Carol will be remembered as a much-loved and inspirational teacher who was devoted to helping students grapple with ideas and hone their sociological imaginations. Her doctoral students benefitted from her meticulous supervision and the depth of her knowledge of her subject while her undergraduate courses – ‘Sexualities’ and ‘Visual Sociology’ (which she taught with Phil Mizen) – were hugely popular with students; at Master’s level she taught in her specialist area - gender and work. She continued researching and writing well into retirement and was working on a paper combining visual methods and her interest in work at the time of her death.