S. Scott University of Sussex, UK
Susie Scott is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK. She specialises in the microsociological theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and Goffman’s dramaturgy, applied to empirical studies of selfhood, social identity, and everyday life. Susie is the author of Shyness and Society (Palgrave, 2007), Making Sense of Everyday Life (Polity, 2009), Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities (Palgrave, 2011), and Negotiating Identity (Polity, 2015). She is currently developing an original research project on “the sociology of nothing” to inform her forthcoming book, The Sociology of Nothing: Silence, Invisibility and Emptiness in Social Life (Routledge, 2019). Susie’s research projects, funded by ESRC, EPSRC, the Wellcome Trust, and the Leverhulme Trust, have included studies of shyness, stage fright, personality disorders, asexuality, total institutions, and swimming.