Dr Ross Wignall

Senior Lecturer in Social/Cultural Anthropology

School of Law and Social Sciences

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Anthropology (BA (Hons), BSc (Hons))

Research Students

Name	Thesis title	Completed
Francesca de Chenu	Conservation and agriculture: Do wildlife corridors support wildlife and local farming concerns adequately?	Active

Research

Groups

Space and Temporalities

Projects

Upskilling for future generations (GEN-UP)

Publications

Ngcobo Seluleko Eric, Bekaert Sarah, Wignall Ross and Miller Tina , A Scoping Review of Dominant Masculinities within South African Prisons
African Journal of Gender, Society & Development, 12 (5) (2023) ISSN: 2634-3614 eISSN: 2634-3622 A Scoping Review of Dominant Masculinities within South African Prisons Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, Piquard B, Joel E, Mengue MT, Ibrahim Y, Sam-Kpakra R, Obah I, Ngono Ayissi E, Negou N, Imagining the future through skills: TVET, gender and transitions towards decent employability for young women in Cameroon and Sierra Leone
Journal of the British Academy 11 (Suppl 3) (2023) pp.121-151 ISSN: 2052–7217. eISSN: 2052-7217 Imagining the future through skills: TVET, gender and transitions towards decent employability for young women in Cameroon and Sierra Leone Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, Piquard B, Joel E, Mengue M-T, Ibrahim Y, Sam-Kpakra R, Obah IH, Ngono Ayissi E, Negou N, Wignall, R and Piquard, B et al. (2023) “Imagining The Future through Skills: TVET and Youth Transitions in Cameroon and Sierra Leone”; Journal of the British Academy
Journal of the British Academy 11 (S3) (2023) pp.121-151 ISSN: 2052–7217. eISSN: 2052-7217
Wignall R, Piquard B, Joel E, Up-skilling Women or De-skilling Patriarchy?: How TVET can drive wider gender transformation and the Decent Work agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa.
International Journal of Educational Development 102 (2023) ISSN: 0738-0593 Up-skilling Women or De-skilling Patriarchy?: How TVET can drive wider gender transformation and the Decent Work agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa. Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, Becoming a “Gospel Woman”: Agency, Youth and Gender at a Charismatic Church in Brighton and Hove, UK.
Journal of Contemporary Religion 38 (1) (2021) pp.61-77 ISSN: 1353-7903 eISSN: 1469-9419 Becoming a “Gospel Woman”: Agency, Youth and Gender at a Charismatic Church in Brighton and Hove, UK. Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, “I Don’t Want to Spend My Life under a Toilet Seat”: Aspiration, Belonging, and Responsible Masculinities in the Lives of White, Working-Class Boys in a Youth Inclusion Program at the YMCA
Boyhood Studies 12 (2) (2020) pp.131-149 ISSN: 2375-9240 eISSN: 2375-9267 “I Don’t Want to Spend My Life under a Toilet Seat”: Aspiration, Belonging, and Responsible Masculinities in the Lives of White, Working-Class Boys in a Youth Inclusion Program at the YMCA Open Access version on RADAR
Esson J, McQuaid K, Gough KV, and Wignall R, Navigating old age and the urban terrain: Geographies of ageing from Africa
Progress in Human Geography 45 (4) (2020) pp.814-833 ISSN: 0309-1325 eISSN: 1477-0288 Navigating old age and the urban terrain: Geographies of ageing from Africa Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, McQuaid K, Gough KV, Esson J, "We built this city": Mobilities, urban livelihoods and social infrastructure in the lives of elderly Ghanaians
Geoforum 103 (2019) pp.75-84 ISSN: 0016-7185 "We built this city": Mobilities, urban livelihoods and social infrastructure in the lives of elderly Ghanaians Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, "A man after god's own heart": charisma, masculinity and leadership at a charismatic Church in Brighton and Hove, UK
Religion 46 (3) (2016) pp.389-411 ISSN: 0048-721X eISSN: 1096-1151
Wignall R, From Swagger to Serious: Managing Young Masculinities between Faiths at a Young Men's Christian Association Centre in The Gambia
Journal of Religion in Africa 46 (2/3) (2016) pp.288-323 ISSN: 0022-4200 eISSN: 1570-0666

Wignall R, Piquard B, Joel E, Gendering Decent Work: Rethinking the connections between Informality, TVET and Gender through the ‘Decent Work’ agenda in Sierra Leone and Cameroon
in Learning for livelihoods in the Global South: Theoretical and methodological lenses on skills and the informal sector, Routledge (2024) ISBN: 9781032626475 eISBN: 9781032650944 Gendering Decent Work: Rethinking the connections between Informality, TVET and Gender through the ‘Decent Work’ agenda in Sierra Leone and Cameroon Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, "Good Boys, Gone Bad": Navigating Youth Mobilisation and Gender in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
in Akin Iwilade, Tarila Marclint Ebiede (ed.), ‘Good Boys, Gone Bad’: Navigating Youth Mobilisation and Gender in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone, Springer International Publishing (2022) ISBN: 9783031131646 eISBN: 9783031131653 "Good Boys, Gone Bad": Navigating Youth Mobilisation and Gender in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, Belonging without believing? Making space for marginal masculinities at the Young Men’s Christian Association in the United Kingdom and The Gambia
in Habib, S. and Ward, M.R., 2019 (ed.), Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging, Palgrave Macmillan (2019) ISBN: 9781138559622 eISBN: 9780203712412 Belonging without believing? Making space for marginal masculinities at the Young Men’s Christian Association in the United Kingdom and The Gambia Open Access version on RADAR
Wignall R, From Big Man to Whole Man: Making Moral Masculinities at the YMCA
in Cornwall A & Lindisfarne N (ed.), Masculinities Under Neoliberalism, Zed Books (2016) ISBN: 9781783607662 eISBN: 9781783607686

Wignall R, review of "Christian Machismo?" A Review of Brendan Jamal Thornton. Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic. University Press of Florida, 2016. pp 288. $69.95
Marginalia: Los Angeles Review of Books "Christian Machismo?" A Review of Brendan Jamal Thornton. Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic. University Press of Florida, 2016. pp 288. $69.95 Open Access version on RADAR

Dr Ross Wignall

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Research Students

Research

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Publications

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